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Haunted Summer

Haunted Summer (1988)

R
12/16/1988 (US)
01h 46m

Four lovers explore the heights of passion. And the depths of evil.

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.

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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

Media

Haunted Summer trailer (Cannon Films)

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