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Haunted Summer is a 1988 romantic period-drama film directed by Ivan Passer. The film is a fictionalized retelling of the Shelleys' visit to Lord Byron in Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva, which lead to the writing of Frankenstein.
Apr 7, 1989 · Haunted Summer: Directed by Ivan Passer. With Philip Anglim, Laura Dern, Alice Krige, Eric Stoltz. In 1816, authors Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley get together for some philosophical discussions, but the situation soon deteriorates into mind games, drugs and sex.
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- Biography, Drama, Romance
- Ivan Passer
- 1989-04-07
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.
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Brief Synopsis. The summer of 1816. Shelley, his wife Mary, and Mary's step-sister Claire visit Lord Byron at his home in Italy, and Mary comes up with the idea which later became "Frankenstein".
- Ivan Passer
- Eric Stoltz
Haunted Summer. Lord Byron (Philip Anglim) and the poet Shelley party with the author (Alice Krige) of "Frankenstein" and her half sister (Laura Dern).
- Horror
A true visionary company consisted by Byron and his personal physician Dr.Polidori as well as Shelley, his lover Mary Godwin, with whom she had eloped and who going latter to be his wife, and the latter's half-sister Claire are a fine team to spend something more than an hour and half with.
