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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.

1988 |1h 46m |  Drama, Romance

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Philip Anglim

Lord Byron

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Alice Krige

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

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Eric Stoltz

Percy Shelley

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Alex Winter

Dr. John William Polidori

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Laura Dern

Claire Clairmont

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Peter Berling

Maurice

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Donald Hodson

Rushton

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Language

English

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