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| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Ivan Passer |
| MANUFACTURER: | Anchor Bay Entertainment |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-drama |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 086112224336 |
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Customer Reviews of Haunted Summer
Understand the concept of free love, an excellent movie! Haunted Summer is a movie about the summer of 1816, when Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. It is the story of a few months in the lives of Percy Shelley, George Gordon, Lord Byron, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Claire Clairemont, and Dr. John William Polidori. Byron gives all the members of the household a challenge. They must write a ghost story. Polidori wrote The Vampyre (not Bram Stoker) and Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. The movie shows us the relationship between all these people. Shelley believes in free love, as do the sisters with whom he has eloped, Mary and Claire. the poetry teacher that showed me this movie wanted to leave me with something, she certainly has. I have come to agree with this philosophy and embrace it as my own. Watch the movie.
Shimmering and debauched
You can just feel the creativity spark and sizzle in this movie. It's the summer of 1816, and authors Lord Byron, Mary Godwin (later to be Mary Shelley) and Percy Shelley escape repressive England for Lake Geneva. That part is historically accurate, although how much of the rest is true, who knows? They have many discussions about life and art, use drugs medicinally and non-medicinally, cavort in the bedrooms, get frightened by a storm, and play mind games on each other. All this adds up to an ecstasy for creation, with a realization of the dark side of man's urge to control the natural world. Alice Krige is excellent, passionate and thoughtful as Mary Godwin, who got her inspiration for Frankenstein that summer. Her parents were early feminists and she definitely doesn't simper or believe herself inferior to the men.
The scenery and costumes are all glorious and the other leads are good, including Eric Stoltz as Shelley, and Laura Dern as Byron's lover.
...P>I also loved how uninhibited these people were. They have many of the values that many in our society have today, but they lived almost 200 years ago. They loved to push the limits of man's ability to experience life, all in the service of their art. I wouldn't want to live the way they did, but I'm glad they did, so they could report back to us in their poetry and stories what the "other side" is like. Our culture wouldn't be what it is today without the Romantic visionaries of the 19th century.
Inspirational Summer
This is one of the best films I have ever seen, and one few films I would love to own a copy of. I was amazed by the depth of these characters and the actors skill in portraying them. Frankly I was inspired and wanted to learn more. The very next day I went to the library and began to research information about Byron, Percy and Mary. After learning more about these poeple I felt that the director did a excellent job in capturing their true essence. Exposure to their lives and work has helped to improve my own. In the years following my first exposure to this film I have found it increasingly difficult to locate. If I could only find this in DVD my life would be complete and I would live happily ever after.