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Haunted Summer

50 %|Dec 16, 1988|Drama, Romance

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.

Featured Crew

Lewis John Carlino
Writer
Ivan Passer
Director
Anne Edwards
Novel
Menahem Golan
Executive Producer
Yoram Globus
Executive Producer
Martin Poll
Producer
Christopher Young
Original Music Composer
Giuseppe Rotunno
Cinematography

Cast

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Philip Anglim
Lord Byron
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Alice Krige
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
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Eric Stoltz
Percy Shelley
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Alex Winter
Dr. John William Polidori
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Laura Dern
Claire Clairmont