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.
Directed by Ivan Passer
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Cast
Philip Anglim
Lord Byron
Alice Krige
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
Eric Stoltz
Percy Shelley
Alex Winter
Dr. John William Polidori
Laura Dern
Claire Clairmont
Peter Berling
Maurice
Donald Hodson
Rushton
Crew
Ivan Passer
Director
Christopher Young
Original Music Composer
Giuseppe Rotunno
Director of Photography
Yoram Globus
Executive Producer
Menahem Golan
Executive Producer
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TeaganPRO
6.0★ · 01/18/26
I’m bringing John Polidori with me where he can be happy and free and away from lord Byron
I’m bringing John Polidori with me where he can be happy and free and away from lord Byron
