Movie

Haunted Summer (1988)

• R
• December 16, 1988
• 1h 46m

• Drama
• Romance

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

Overview

Authors Lord Byron, Mary Shelley 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.

Director

Ivan Passer

Writers

Lewis John Carlino, Anne Edwards

Starring

Philip Anglim, Alice Krige, Eric Stoltz