Haunted Summer

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

Apr 7 1989 R 1h 46m
Drama, Romance

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.

Plot

Based on the infamous Summer of 1816 when Mary Shelley wrote "Frankenstein", it chronicles the mind games and manipulations that were the halmarks of the intense and neurotic relationships that existed among Byron, Shelley, Mary, and her step-sister Claire Godwin.

Written by

Anne Edwards, Lewis John Carlino

Directed by

Ivan Passer

Cast

Philip Anglim, Laura Dern, Alice Krige

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Golan-Globus Productions, Cannon Group

Languages

English

Awards

1 nomination

Trailers
Haunted Summer trailer (Cannon Films)
Scores
# of Votes
647
Average Rating
5.8 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA