Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb5.8/10
13 audience votes
Key crew
- Ivan PasserDirector
- Lewis John CarlinoWriter
- Christopher YoungOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Philip AnglimLord Byron
- Alice KrigeMary Wollstonecraft Godwin
- Eric StoltzPercy Shelley
- Alex WinterDr. John William Polidori
- Laura DernClaire Clairmont
- Peter BerlingMaurice
- Donald HodsonRushton
- Giusto Lo PiperoBerger
- Antoinette McLainElise
- Terry RichardsFletcher
Stills
Themes
lord byron