Gothic
Movie • 1986 • Horror
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The year is 1816. A sprawling villa in Switzerland is the setting for a stormy night of madness. On this night of the "Haunted Summer," five famous friends gather around an ancient skull to conjure up their darkest fears. Poets Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, Shelley's fiancée Mary Godwin, Mary's stepsister Claire Clairemont and Byron's friend John Polidori spend a hallucinogenic evening confronting their fears in a frenzy of shocking lunacy. Horrifying visions invade the castle - realizations of Byron's fear of leeches, Shelley's fear of premature burial, Mary's fear of birthing a stillborn child - all brought forth in a bizarre dreamscape. They share the terrifying fantasies that chase them through the castle that night. The events of that night later inspired Mary Shelley to write the classic "Frankenstein" and Dr. Polidori to pen "The Vampyre," which became the basis for the creation of Dracula..
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Is there pedophilia?
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There's a suggestion that Claire is having a flashback to her father harming her in the scene where she's instructed to conjure her inner most fears.
Also, later on, Mary says to Byron, "Possession that destroys, like your wife was destroyed by your sodomy, like every lover you've ever raped—women, men, boys, and even Augusta".
Also, later on, Mary says to Byron, "Possession that destroys, like your wife was destroyed by your sodomy, like every lover you've ever raped—women, men, boys, and even Augusta".
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Are rabbits harmed?
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No, but a rat is.
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It's alluded that Claire's parent(s) abused her, but no confirmation.
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A live fish is left out of water to die.
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A live fish is left out of water to die.
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Are there spiders?
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Roaches and small black spiders crawl out of a man's mouth and onto his face.
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Are there bugs?
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Roaches and small black spiders crawl out of a man's mouth and onto his face.
Also, they aren't bugs but might trigger someone anyway, there are also leeches shown being on food (as a prank) and swallowed (separate scene).
Also, they aren't bugs but might trigger someone anyway, there are also leeches shown being on food (as a prank) and swallowed (separate scene).
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Sexually assaulted, but not raped.
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Byron constantly grabs or forcefully kisses other characters. This is often (but not always) responded to positively. Regardless, this might be a very uncomfortable and repetitive event.
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone tortured?
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Psychologically.
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Is there body horror?
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Very mild, more like boddy weirdness
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Is someone burned alive?
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A corpse is seen being burned briefly, but nobody is burned alive.
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Is there a hanging?
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An attempt.
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Is someone buried alive?
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In an dream sequence, a woman watches her previous dead husband get buried alive.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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A woman eventually has a seizure after having a severe reaction to a seance.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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A woman nearly leaps off of a balcony before her husband stops her.
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A character mentions having a miscarriage
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Does someone cheat?
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To be fair, the people in this movie believe in "free love" and discuss it. Though there are sexual/romantic moments that happen when another's main partner isn't around, it's hard to say that that partner would be particularly bothered by it. There are implications and accusations of jealousy about possible liaisons, however.
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Yes, but they're tame.
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Is someone possessed?
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Claire is possessed by some entity.
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Is there a shower scene?
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there’s a bath scene where running water runs from a faucet over the character’s head
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Are there mannequins?
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A living mannequin.
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That'd be uncanny, wouldn't it?
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Several attempts of suicide from one character. Near-suicide of another.
In the end, only verbally, we're informed that one of the characters did eventually succeed in an attempt. We're given no details.
In the end, only verbally, we're informed that one of the characters did eventually succeed in an attempt. We're given no details.
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Extremely, throughout the movie
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Do not watch this if you are in any way affected by infant death.
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Not on screen, but a character describes having a miscarriage in the past.
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Are there abortions?
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A reference is made to a character performing an abortion on another but this doesn't actually happen
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Does an LGBT person die?
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A repressed homosexual attempts to commit suicide, but doesn't die.
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It's discussed a lot but there are no literal, actual demons or Hell in the context of the events of the story
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There are implications of Lord Byron having incestuous relationships.
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