One of three films made around the same time about Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, his future wife Mary (author of "Frankenstein") and other various guests on a remote island near Geneva. The presence of a strange man with strangely clipped speech is either some sort of nightmare or the presence of a mad man, Dracula like in appearance (even though there's no Bram Stoker) and possibly the model for Frankenstein's monster.
The death of a child is never confirmed to be the responsibility of this presence, but it's definitely the influence of the scene in the novel where the monster innocently throws a child into the water, not realizing the harm it's doing. Hugh Grant, Valentine Pelka, Elizabeth Hurley and Lizzy McInnery are decent as the four leads, and José Carlos Rivas is intentionally mysterious and strangely sexy as the supposed creature or apparition or possibly even death in human form. A strange structure makes this a bizarre variation of volume a story that didn't work in any of the films that came out oddly around the same time. Visually delightful however, so this is an artistic disappointment as were the others.
The death of a child is never confirmed to be the responsibility of this presence, but it's definitely the influence of the scene in the novel where the monster innocently throws a child into the water, not realizing the harm it's doing. Hugh Grant, Valentine Pelka, Elizabeth Hurley and Lizzy McInnery are decent as the four leads, and José Carlos Rivas is intentionally mysterious and strangely sexy as the supposed creature or apparition or possibly even death in human form. A strange structure makes this a bizarre variation of volume a story that didn't work in any of the films that came out oddly around the same time. Visually delightful however, so this is an artistic disappointment as were the others.