Though the title suggests a silly, teen-oriented spook story, this handsome film is actually about the summer of 1816, when English literature's most notorious party of five convened at the Villa Deodato on Lake Geneva and gave birth to Frankenstein's monster. Or maybe it
is a teen-oriented spook story: Two of the five were teenagers, the oldest member of the group was 28, and they spent the summer fooling around, taking drugs and telling campfire stories. The cast of characters: Aspiring novelist Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Alice Krige), daughter of pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and freethinker William Godwin; her husband-to-be, bisexual poet Percy...
Released:
1988
Rated:
R
Length:
115 mins