Haunted Summer

Haunted Summer

106 mins | Drama, Romance | Dec. 16, 1988

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.

Haunted Summer

106 mins | Drama, Romance | Dec. 16, 1988

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.
IMDb rating 5.8
Producers Cannon Group, Golan-Globus Productions
Original title Haunted Summer
Directors Ivan Passer
Writers Anne Edwards, Lewis John Carlino

Cast

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

Giusto Lo Pipero

as Berger

Terry Richards

as Fletcher