Haunted Summer 1988
5 /10
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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Lord Byron
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
Percy Shelley
Dr. John William Polidori
Claire Clairmont
Maurice
Rushton
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Cast & crew of
Haunted Summer
Directors & Credit Writers
Original Music Composer
Cinematography
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Cast
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
Percy Shelley
Dr. John William Polidori
Claire Clairmont
Maurice
Rushton
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