A Nightmare Wakes

2020

Action / Drama / Horror / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 43% · 33 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 43%
IMDb Rating 3.7/10 10 389 389

Plot summary

Inspired by her marital troubles and the suffering caused by her miscarriages, Mary Shelley writes about Frankenstein. But she loses her grip when the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur.

Director

Nora Unkel Photo
Nora Unkel

Top cast

Deidra Catero Photo
Deidra Catero as Party Goer
Alix Wilton Regan Photo
Alix Wilton Regan as Mary Shelley
Giullian Yao Gioiello Photo
Giullian Yao Gioiello as Percy Shelley
Claire Glassford Photo
Claire Glassford as Claire Clairmont
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832.11 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 30 min
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1.51 GB
1920*800
English 2.0
NR
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24 fps
1 hr 30 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by octoberbaby-64500 3 / 10

Not interesting

Too many scenes destroyed by dark filming where you can't see characters and even though it's based on real people there is nothing redeeming about these two. It's not suspenseful in the least more depressing than anything. Granted Mary Shelley lived a very depressed life. I thought that this film would be more about her visions of the actual Frankenstein characters from her book. Instead it was a constant argument between Percy and Mary.The acting was very good though. Too bad there wasn't a better script. Has a lot of potential.
Reviewed by silvio-mitsubishi 5 / 10

A Valiant Effort, but Confused and Confusing

An ambitious blend of fact and fiction, fantasy and reality, telling the story of Mary Godwin's marriage to Percy Shelley and creating an allegory in which the story of Frankenstein serves as a metaphor for their disturbed relationship.Timelines are blurred as Godwin miscarries Shelley's baby, immediately followed by the suicide by drowning of Shelley's first wife, then the birth and early death of Mary's child William and Shelley's affair with Mary's step-sister Claire, leading to the poet's own death.The central idea of the Frankenstein tale growing from Mary's psychosis is a good one, and the screenplay does well to integrate so many factual elements into a reasonable storyline, but this is also partly the film's undoing. A simpler telling would have worked better, without the shifting allegiances between Shelley, Mary, Claire and Lord Byron distracting from the plot.Bravely, the script does not try to sugarcoat any of the characters. The literary couple are volatile, jealous, self-centred and spoilt. The romance is no fairytale, and the child death is harrowing. Laudanum contributes to the paranoia and mistrust between the characters, but ultimately the audience is left with no clear sense of what has happened. Too many liberties and inventions simply cause confusion and the film fails to convince.
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