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Haunted Summer
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Wikipedia article
'Haunted Summer' is a 1988 drama film directed by Ivan Passer.
Plot summary
In 1816, authors Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and Mary Shelley (ne Godwin) 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 Byron's doctor, John William Polidori, spent in the isolated Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva. It is there they devise a contest to produce 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 lifeMary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'.
Cast
* Philip Anglim as Lord Byron
* Eric Stoltz as Percy Shelley
* Alice Krige as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
* Alex Winter as Dr. John William Polidori
* Laura Dern as Claire Clairmont
See also
Other films about this meeting of authors include the following:
* 'Gothic' (1986 film)
* 'Rowing with the Wind' (1988 film)
* 'Mary Shelley' (2017 film)
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