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Sex & Nudity

  • Full frontal nudity of Shelley in the lake. He asks Claire to join him, and she begins to disrobe.
  • Claire seduces Lord Byron, as she says "I want to feel you inside me, deeply. Deeper than you have ever gone."
  • Mary and Percy have sex in a prolonged, albeit fairly tame love scene. No nudity is shown.
  • It is implied that Lord Byron and Dr. Polidori have a sexual relationship. Claire sees their shadows from the window as they kiss one another.
  • There is talk of Lord Byron and his incestuous relationship with his sister.
  • Much talk of free love.
  • Byron and Mary have sex; however, the scene is tame. Minimal nudity.
  • Byron gives a highly sexual interpretation of Henry Fuseli's "Nightmare" painting.

Violence & Gore

Profanity

  • A few mild profanities.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Pervasive use of opium and laudanum. Some of the characters hallucinate whilst on these drugs.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Fuseli's "Nightmare" painting plays a pivotal role in the film, which inspires night terrors in Mary. In one such nightmare, the monster from the painting stalks her in the bedroom.
  • During a hallucination, a monster stalks Byron in a cave.
  • Ominous thunderstorm scenes.

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