Gothic (1987)

Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Godwin Shelley and other literary luminaries gather at a Geneva villa in 1816 for a night of weird frenzy during the storm that inspired Shelley to write Frankenstein.

There are eerie séances, orgies galore, thunder and lightning, rats in the wine cellar, mind-blowing hallucinations - all laid on thick and eloquent by director Ken Russell who wallows in the excess. Yet it's all just so much garish gibberish - uninvolving and hard to sort out.