Haunted Summer

December. 16,1988 R

Rating：

5.8

Genre：

Drama Romance

Keywords：

Lord Byron

Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Philip Anglim as Lord Byron

Alice Krige as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

Eric Stoltz as Percy Shelley

Alex Winter as Dr. John William Polidori

Laura Dern as Claire Clairmont

Peter Berling as Maurice

Donald Hodson as Rushton

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