- HD 1080
- Runtime: 106m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Ivan Passer
- Stars: Philip Anglim, Alice Krige, Eric Stoltz, Alex Winter, Laura Dern
- keywords: lord byron
- Production_studio: The Cannon Group, Golan-Globus Productions
- Slogan: Four lovers explore the heights of passion. And the depths of evil.
- providers: MGM Plus, ScreenPix Apple TV Channel
- The Haunted Summer is featured in the top rankings of 1988
- #60 in Top Romance Movies of 1988
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.