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Haunted Summer (1988)
Directed by Ivan Passer
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.
Rated R | Length 106 minutes
Actors
Philip Anglim | Alice Krige | Eric Stoltz | Alex Winter | Laura Dern | Peter Berling | Donald Hodson | Giusto Lo Pipero | Antoinette McLain | Terry Richards