Haunted Summer
5.7
“Four lovers explore the heights of passion. And the depths of evil.”
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.
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Philip Anglim
Lord Byron
Known for
The Thorn Birds
Testament
Alice Krige
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
Known for
The OA
Carnival Row
Eric Stoltz
Percy Shelley
Known for
Pulp Fiction
The Butterfly Effect
Alex Winter
Dr. John William Polidori
Known for
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Freaked
Laura Dern
Claire Clairmont
Known for
Jurassic Park
Big Little Lies
Peter Berling
Maurice
Known for
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Fitzcarraldo
Donald Hodson
Rushton
Known for
Renegade
Starcrash
Giusto Lo Pipero
Berger
Also in
Il Divo
Antoinette McLain
Elise
No other roles listed
Terry Richards
Fletcher
Known for
The Bourne Identity
Red Sonja
Ivan Passer Director · Lewis John Carlino Writer Anne Edwards Author
United States release December 16, 1988 · Produced in United States · Production Golan-Globus Productions
Production
The Cannon Group
Production
Golan-Globus Productions
Production
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · December 16, 1988
Limited theatrical
United Kingdom
April 7, 1989 · Theatrical
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