{"product_id":"zastrozzi-a-romance-channel-4-drama-dvd","title":"Zastrozzi: A Romance - Channel 4 Drama [DVD]","description":"First broadcast on Channel 4 in 1986, Zastrozzi was written and directed by champion of the avant-garde David Hopkins, and features riveting early screen roles for Tilda Swinton and Mark McGann.\r\n\r\nThis atmospheric four-part drama is a contemporary retelling of Percy Bysshe Shelley's chilling gothic horror novel, a precursor in image, character and theme to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The original characters are transported from 19th-century Germany and Italy into present-day England in a vivid exploration of the wicked depths of human nature, and the failed frameworks of society, religion and romance.\r\n\r\nIn a heady tale of revenge and obsession, the outlaw Zastrozzi (Geoff Francis), assisted by courtesan Matilda (Hilary Trott), abducts his half-brother Verezzi (McGann) and torments him into believing his lover Julia (Swinton) has been murdered. His campaign of vicious psychological abuse signals a grisly bloodbath of greed, envy, betrayal, retribution and eternal damnation.\r\n\r\nAn imaginative, provocative and timeless examination of demonic manipulation and soul-sapping vulnerability.\r\n","brand":"Simply Media TV","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54302893343105,"sku":"188951","price":4.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0702\/9050\/5986\/files\/3063418.jpg?v=1747237604","url":"https:\/\/hit.co.uk\/products\/zastrozzi-a-romance-channel-4-drama-dvd","provider":"Hit","version":"1.0","type":"link"}