Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has shocked readers for two hundred years, but the story of how she wrote it is the true legend.

*Winner: Silver Prize at the 2013 Page International Screenwriting Awards

SYNOPSIS:

Lord Byron, the self-proclaimed greatest sinner in England, hosts in his villa a seminal gathering of some of the greatest writers of his age. Among them are Mary and Percy Shelley. It is at this summer retreat where Mary Shelley writes the eternal classic Frankenstein. Mary’s brilliant work vexes the egotistical Byron and after an obsessive study he pleads with her to reveal the secret of its inspiration. The tale that she recounted to him is both an apocryphal legend, and a treatise on mythos and storytelling… When Mary, her husband Percy and half-sister Claire arrive at Darmstadt, Germany, the scenery lives up to its dark reputation. The town is home to the notorious, Castle Frankenstein. Fueled by the spirit of adventure the intrepid young artists press on with their plan to spend a night in the castle. They are surprised to find it inhabited by a man named Caligari. The odd looking and eccentric old man is a self-proclaimed alchemist and “guardian of the soul of the castle”: a spirit that he claims was embodied into human form by his late master and currently wanders the grounds. Even though he welcomes Mary and her company, beguiling them with tales of the castles history, Caligari is devising a plan to ensnare the beautiful young Mary. Through her dreams that night Caligari summons Mary through an ancient labyrinth, to the creatures lair. In his frantic attempt to save her, Percy braves the labyrinth and its many terrors, but the challenge proves too much for him and Mary is left to rescue them both.