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3 | British director Creator/KenRussell's 1986 take on how Creator/MaryShelley was inspired to write Literature/{{Frankenstein}}. |
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5 | It's been well documented that Mary Shelley (Creator/NatashaRichardson) visited Lord Byron (Creator/GabrielByrne) and his biographer Dr. Polidori (Creator/TimothySpall) in Geneva with her husband and stepsister during the stormy summer of 1816, was challenged to write a ghost story, got the idea of Frankenstein from a nightmare and began a short story which eventually became a novel. |
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7 | Ken Russell takes that and runs with it, there's a seance and a reading of a pornographic ghost story. Creator/PercyByssheShelley (Creator/JulianSands) prances about naked on the roof during a thunderstorm, Byron has a robot stripper in his bedroom and there's stuff with leeches. If it's possible for an entire film to be a BigLippedAlligatorMoment, this is one. |
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9 | Not to be confused with the video game series of the same name. |
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14 | * AdaptationDyeJob: For the Shelleys. The real ones both had dark hair, these versions are both blonde. |
15 | * BrotherSisterIncest: Byron and his (half) sister Augusta in the backstory. Now she's dead, he gets one of his maids to wear a mask of her during sex. |
16 | * DomesticAbuse: Byron kicks Claire in the face and threatens to shove her head in the fire after she makes a joke about his club foot, no-one seems particulary troubled. He's pretty aggressive towards her throughout. |
17 | * EyesDoNotBelongThere: Shelley has a nightmare featuring Claire with eyes on her nipples. |
18 | * {{Gayngst}}: Polidori. |
19 | * HeManWomanHater: Byron is portrayed as one, for some reason. The real Byron wasn't. |
20 | * HistoricalDomainCharacter: All five leads. |
21 | * OnlySaneMan: Mary, to begin with. Though even she starts to lose it later on. |
22 | * TheOphelia: Claire. |
23 | * SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: Seems to be troubling Polidori. |
24 | * SoundtrackDissonance: The electronic Dolby music is at odds with the period setting. |
25 | * TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich: There's a dinner scene, barely any of the dinner actually gets eaten. |
26 | * VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: With added supernatural elements and general Ken Russellness. |
27 | * VomitIndiscretionShot: Mary throws up onscreen when she sees Claire crawling around in the mud with a rat in her mouth. |
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