This week! A literature episode. The hosts are back on Ken Russell with his adaptation of the Mary Shelley adaptation, Gothic (1986). Drusilla watched Death Game (1977) and they talk all about Colleen Camp. She also watched Ken Russell’s Tommy and Listzomania. They discuss Ken Russell’s unproduced script for Dracula. Josh comes in with book recs. The Icelandic semi-adaptation of Dracula called The Powers of Darkness and Riley Sager’s The Only One Left. Also mentioned: the tragic death of Julian Sands, the Romantic period, the year with no summer, Cabaret, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Altered States, Kenneth Branagh’s Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful, Suburbia, different Shakespeare adaptations, Dexter Fletcher, Derek Jarman, and Sting, 

From Wiki: “Gothic is a 1986 British psychological horror film directed by Ken Russell, starring Gabriel Byrne as Lord Byron, Julian Sands as Percy Bysshe Shelley, Natasha Richardson as Mary Shelley, Myriam Cyr as Claire Clairmont (Mary Shelley's stepsister) and Timothy Spall as Dr. John William Polidori. It features a soundtrack by Thomas Dolby, and marks Richardson's and Cyr's film debut.”

NEXT WEEK: The Sentinel (1977)

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