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Where to Watch Haunted Summer (1988)
Four lovers explore the heights of passion. And the depths of evil.
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.
DramaRomance 106 min
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Cast
- Philip Anglim as Lord Byron
- Alice Krige as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
- Eric Stoltz as Percy Shelley
- Alex Winter as Dr. John William Polidori
- Laura Dern as Claire Clairmont