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Haunted Summer

Haunted Summer

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 16, 1988

Runtime

1h 46m

Genres

Drama, Romance

User Score

50%

Original Title

Haunted Summer

Production Companies

The Cannon Group, Golan-Globus Productions

Director

Ivan Passer

Description

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.