
Haunted Summer
50.00% | December 16, 1988 | Drama, Romance
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.
Featured Crew
Ivan Passer
Director
Lewis John Carlino
Writer
Giuseppe Rotunno
Cinematography
Cast

Philip Anglim
Lord Byron

Alice Krige
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

Eric Stoltz
Percy Shelley

Alex Winter
Dr. John William Polidori

Laura Dern
Claire Clairmont
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