Haunted Summer Reviews

The story of Mary Shelley’s inspiration for the creation of her book Frankenstein is once again presented in Ivan Passer’s Haunted Summer. Covering some of the same ground (but infinitely less hyperbolic or hypnotic as Ken Russell’s mad Gothic), Haunted Summer remains stubbornly undramatic and lacking focus and clear motivation. Despite four talented leading players and plenty of wanton excesses to go around, the film never engages one’s interests for more than a few moments, a crucial lapse when one is dealing with literary figures as fascinating and as unusual as the characters in this saga.

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