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Supernatural: Night of the Marionettes
After exhausting himself in his research into the Shelleys' time at the Villa Diodati, Professor Howard Lawrence, his wife and his beloved daughter Mary arrive at an isolated Swiss guesthouse for a rest, but he's still obsessed by the question of where the Shelleys went afterwards and what could possibly have inspired Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein. Could the answer possibly lie in the Guesthouse Ritterhof and its macabre puppetshows?
What is it: Night of the Marionettes is an episode from Supernatural, a 1970s BBC series of Gothic horror stories, each featuring a narrator telling their spinechilling story to a mysterious club in the hopes of being admitted as a member. It's standalone, and just under an hour long.
Where can it be found: It's currently up on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuqafiyLnN4. Alternatively, I know the single episode can be bought from the UK version of Amazon Video.
Why do I love it?: Oh man, where do I even start? It's so much fun to watch, gloriously overwrought and stagey, and the actors are clearly having an awful lot of fun. There's scenery-chewing, Hammer-Horror-esque sets (a church graveyard clearly visible from a window), Howard in a loose shirt and undone waistcoat brandishing a candelabra as he explores the corridors of the inn at night and repeatedly running into his daughter who's doing the exact same thing, him and his family being forced to sit through a batshit and utterly excruciating puppetshow featuring rapey life-size puppets, and a heavily implied incestuous attraction between him and his daughter which includes some of the most uncomfortably hot moments I've ever seen in my life. Oh, and Mary may or may not be possessed by the spirit of Mary Shelley. It's absurd! It's ridiculous! It's glorious! I love it so damn much.
What sort of thing will I request?: I want so many things for this, starting with anything that unashamedly wallows in the absurd Gothic atmosphere of canon, or which tries to answer some of the unanswered questions of what the hell is actually going on. There is so much to dig into here, like: what happened at the Villa Diodati? Is Mary possessed? Are their hosts murderers or not? Or something following on from the end of canon, and/or digging into the relationship between him and his daughter. At the end of the episode he's so horribly guilty and distressed, and it's delicious. I'll be requesting Howard/Mary, and I'm open to anything from canon-style uncomfortable father-daughter smarm to explicit sex (ideally of the horribly guilty kind), but if you'd rather focus on the horror, plot and gothic atmosphere then it's fine to treat it as an & relationship instead. I'm just desperate to see something exploring the Gothic WTFery of canon.
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