Penny Dreadful 2014
Created by John Logan
- Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Mystery, Action & Adventure
- 60 min episodes
- 3 seasons
- 27 episodes
- Ended
- TV-MA
Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. Penny Dreadful is a frightening psychological thriller that weaves together these classic horror origin stories into a new adult drama.
- Body horror
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Grave, bleak, classical in form and nostalgic.
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
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Cast
- Eva GreenVanessa Ives
- Josh HartnettEthan Chandler
- Timothy DaltonSir Malcolm Murray
- Harry TreadawayDr. Victor Frankenstein
- Reeve CarneyDorian Gray
- Rory KinnearJohn Clare / The Creature
- Billie PiperLily / Brona Croft
- Patti LuPoneDr. Seward
- Wes StudiKaetenay
Crew
- John LoganCreator
- Morgan O'SullivanProducer
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Seasons
- Season 18 eps · 2014
- Season 210 eps · 2015
- Season 39 eps · 2016
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