Haunted Summer (1988)

Haunted Summer (1988)

Four lovers explore the heights of passion. And the depths of evil. 1988-12-16 United States of America 106 Min. PG-13
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Overview

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.

Cast

Philip Anglim is Lord Byron
Lord Byron
Alice Krige is Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
Eric Stoltz is Percy Shelley
Percy Shelley
Alex Winter is Dr. John William Polidori
Dr. John William Polidori
Laura Dern is Claire Clairmont
Claire Clairmont
Peter Berling is Maurice
Donald Hodson is Rushton
Terry Richards is Fletcher