Released
Haunted Summer
December 16 1988 (about 36 years ago)Rating
50
Based on
7 reviews
Four lovers explore the heights of passion. And the depths of evil.
- Director: Ivan Passer
- Genres: Drama, Romance
- Runtime: 1 h 46 m
- Country: United States of America
- Companies: The Cannon Group, Golan-Globus Productions
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.
