IMDb
5.7 /10
653 votes


Drama · Romance · 1988 · 1h 46min
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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The Cannon GroupGolan-Globus Productions

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IMDb
5.7 /10
653 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
78 /100
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Metacritic took the day off
TMDB
5.2 /10
10 votes
Letterboxd
6.2 /10
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Weighted average
6.2/10