
Haunted Summer
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.
Release Date: 1988-12-16
Drama
Romance
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Casts

Philip Anglim
as Lord Byron

Alice Krige
as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

Eric Stoltz
as Percy Shelley

Alex Winter
as Dr. John William Polidori

Laura Dern
as Claire Clairmont

Peter Berling
as Maurice

Donald Hodson
as Rushton