Haunted Summer

Haunted Summer
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ivan Passer
Written by	Lewis John Carlino
Based on	Haunted Summer by Anne Edwards
Produced by	Martin Poll
Starring	Philip Anglim Laura Dern Alice Krige Eric Stoltz Alex Winter
Cinematography	Giuseppe Rotunno
Edited by	Cesare D'Amico Rick Fields
Music by	Christopher Young
Distributed by	Cannon Films
Release date	December 16, 1988 (1988-12-16)
Running time	106 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Haunted Summer is a 1988 drama film directed by Ivan Passer.

Plot summary

In 1816, authors Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and Mary Shelley (née 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 Lord Byron's ex-lover and his 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 life—Mary 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)

External links

• Haunted Summer at IMDb
• Haunted Summer at Rotten Tomatoes