Film

Haunted Summer

1988 · 1h 46m · Drama · Romance

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

IMDb

5.8

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

Lord Byron

Alice Krige

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

Eric Stoltz

Percy Shelley

Alex Winter

Dr. John William Polidori

Laura Dern

Claire Clairmont

Peter Berling

Maurice

Donald Hodson

Rushton

Giusto Lo Pipero

Berger

Antoinette McLain

Elise

Terry Richards

Fletcher

• Ivan PasserDirector
• Lewis John CarlinoWriter
• Anne EdwardsNovel
• Martin PollProducer
• Menahem GolanExecutive Producer
• Yoram GlobusExecutive Producer
• Giuseppe RotunnoDirector of Photography
• Christopher YoungOriginal Music Composer
• Rick FieldsEditor
• Cesare D'AmicoEditor

Haunted Summer trailer (Cannon Films)

Release date

December 16, 1988

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 46m

Rated

R

Genres

Drama, Romance

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