Gothic is a 1986 motion picture directed by Ken Russell. It starred Gabriel Byrne as Lord Byron, Julian Sands as Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Natasha Richardson as Mary Shelley.
The film is a lurid and highly fictionalized tale based on the famous challenge to write a horror story, made while the Shelleys were staying at Byron's villa on Lake Geneva, that led to Mary Shelley's writing Frankenstein.
