Haunted Summer

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

Haunted Summer — Plot

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.

• Release date
• December 16, 1988
• Runtime
• 106 min
• Genres
• Drama, Romance
• Director
• Ivan Passer

Haunted Summer — 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

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