Release Date

16 Dec, 1988

Runtime

01:46: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Four lovers explore the heights of passion. And the depths of evil.

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.

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Actors

Philip Anglim

Alice Krige

Eric Stoltz

Alex Winter

Laura Dern

Peter Berling

Donald Hodson

Giusto Lo Pipero

Antoinette McLain

Terry Richards

Crew

Ivan Passer

Lewis John Carlino

Anne Edwards

Martin Poll

Christopher Young

Giuseppe Rotunno

Cesare D'Amico

Rick Fields

Yoram Globus

Menahem Golan