Haunted Summer (1988)

Directed by

Ivan Passer

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

R

Rating

5.1 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1816, Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley visit Lord Byron at his villa in Switzerland. The group spends the summer together, exploring love, creativity, and dark ideas that lead to Mary's story of Frankenstein.

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What happens

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 led to the writing of Frankenstein. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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