Haunted Summer

The story

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.

Cast & crew

Philip AnglimLord Byron

Alice KrigeMary Wollstonecraft Godwin

Eric StoltzPercy Shelley

Alex WinterDr. John William Polidori

Laura DernClaire Clairmont

Peter BerlingMaurice

Donald HodsonRushton

Giusto Lo Pipero

Giusto Lo PiperoBerger

Antoinette McLain

Antoinette McLainElise

Terry Richards

Terry RichardsFletcher