Haunted Summer (1988)

ALL 12/16/1988 (en) Drama, Romance 106 Min
  • Release
    12/16/1988
  • Production
    The Cannon Group, Golan-Globus Productions
  • Rotten tomato
    50%
  • Original title
    Haunted Summer
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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

Overview

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.

  1. Ivan Passer

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Martin Poll

    Producer



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Casts

  1. Philip Anglim

    Lord Byron

  2. Alice Krige

    Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

  3. Eric Stoltz

    Percy Shelley

  4. Alex Winter

    Dr. John William Polidori

  5. Laura Dern

    Claire Clairmont

  6. Peter Berling

    Maurice

  7. Donald Hodson

    Rushton

  8. Giusto Lo Pipero

    Berger

  9. Antoinette McLain

    Elise

  10. Terry Richards

    Fletcher

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 10 , Crews : 10

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Haunted Summer (1988) 106 Min

ALL 12/16/1988 (en)
Drama, Romance
  • Release 12/16/1988
  • Production
    The Cannon Group, Golan-Globus Productions
  • Original title Haunted Summer
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

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

Overview

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.

  1. Ivan Passer

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Cesare D'Amico, Rick Fields

    Editor

  4. Martin Poll

    Producer