Gothic in USA

[Iain Fisher]

Ken Russell's Gothic will shown on 26 March 2026 at the Arkadin Cinema in St Louis, Missouri.

“Gothic is an explosive horror-drama in which the devilish, omnisexual Byron leads his crew of aesthetes in a laudanum-assisted night of playful games and erotically charged rituals. The poets and artists are “beckoning the spark of creation” for a storytelling contest in a castle full of gothic props – cobwebs, skulls, suits of armor, automata, mirrors, a mask, a goat and a snake. Traumas are triggered, nightmares come to life, and visions of future doom dance in the night as a tripping, terrified Mary will be galvanized into merging her past grief and present panic into one of the greatest horror stories ever told”.

For the cinema site click here
https://arkadincinema.com/
For more on Gothic click here
https://iainfisher.com/russell/ken-russell-film-gothic.html

[Iain Fisher]

Ken Russell's Gothic will shown on 6 February 2026 at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline MA.

“1816. A sprawling villa in Switzerland is the setting for the night of the “Haunted Summer,” when 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 Clairmont; and Byron’s friend, Dr. John Polidori, spend a hallucinogenic evening confronting their fears in an orgiastic frenzy of shock lunacy that 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. One fateful evening, two legends were born, in Ken Russell’s Gothic”.

For the cinema site click here
https://coolidge.org/
For more on Gothic click here
https://iainfisher.com/russell/ken-russell-film-gothic.html