Gothic (1986): Cast, Box Office, Plot & Where to Watch

Through her stepsister Claire Clairmont, Myriam Cyr and her future husband Julian Sands come to know Gabriel Byrne as Lord Byron. During the summer of 1816, Byron invites them to stay for a while at Villa Diodati in Switzerland, where they meet Byron’s physician friend, Timothy Spall as Dr. Polidori. On 16 June, while a storm rages outside, the five occupy themselves with a game of hide-and-seek, letting the tension between flirtation, fear, and curiosity simmer beneath the surface. Later in a parlor, Percy Shelley articulates a fascination with science, while Polidori shares his own speculations about sleepwalking and nightmares, drawing a faint line between the rational and the uncanny.