Haunted Summer

Haunted Summer (1988)

Four lovers explore the heights of passion. And the depths of evil.

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.

star 5
  • Release Date: 1988-12-16
  • Runtime: 1h 46min
  • Director: Ivan Passer

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    Cast

    • Philip Anglim

      Lord Byron

    • Alice Krige

      Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

    • Eric Stoltz

      Percy Shelley

    • Alex Winter

      Dr. John William Polidori

    • Laura Dern

      Claire Clairmont

    • Peter Berling

      Maurice

    • Donald Hodson

      Rushton

    • Giusto Lo Pipero

      Berger

    • Antoinette McLain

      Elise

    • Terry Richards

      Fletcher

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