Haunted Summer

Haunted Summer

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

R 1988 · 106 min · ★ 5.2 · Drama, Romance

Authors Lord Byron, Mary Shelley 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.

Directed by Ivan Passer · Written by Lewis John Carlino

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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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