
Haunted Summer
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.
Top Billed Cast

Philip Anglim
Lord Byron

Alice Krige
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

Eric Stoltz
Percy Shelley

Alex Winter
Dr. John William Polidori

Laura Dern
Claire Clairmont
Featured Crew

Ivan Passer
Director
Lewis John Carlino
Writer
Martin Poll
Producer

Christopher Young
Original Music Composer

Giuseppe Rotunno
Cinematography
Cesare D'Amico
Editor
Rick Fields
Editor

Yoram Globus
Executive Producer

Menahem Golan
Executive Producer
Anne Edwards
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