Haunted Summer

1h 46min

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.

Production Companies

The Cannon Group

Golan-Globus Productions

Cast

Philip Anglim

Philip Anglim

Lord Byron
Alice Krige

Alice Krige

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
Eric Stoltz

Eric Stoltz

Percy Shelley
Alex Winter

Alex Winter

Dr. John William Polidori
Laura Dern

Laura Dern

Claire Clairmont

Release date

16th Dec 1988

Status

Released

Spoken languages

English