Haunted Summer (1988)

5.1/10 • 106 min • Drama Romance

Overview

Authors Lord Byron, Mary Shelley (née Godwin) and Percy Shelley get together for some philosophical discussions, but the situation soon deteriorates into mind games, drugs, and sex. It is a fictionalization of the summer that Lord Byron and the Shelleys, together with Lord Byron's ex-lover Claire Clairmont and his Doctor John Polidori, spent in the isolated Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva. It is there they devise a contest to adduce the best horror story to kill the dullness of summer. It is also there that one of the world's most famous books was given life—Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Cast

Philip Anglim

Alice Krige

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

Eric Stoltz

Alex Winter

Dr. John William Polidori

Laura Dern

Claire Clairmont

Peter Berling

Donald Hodson

Rushton

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