A
physician named Doctor Henry Jekyll
(Anthony Perkins) is tormented by abusive
and perverted nightmares of sex and
violence and does some dangerous
experiments with cocaine to the point
where he takes another life form by the
name of Jack the Ripper Hyde who is an
uncontrollable and vicious killer as he
goes out and slays prostitutes which is
the character of Jekyll's perverted
nightmares.
News breaks out around the village about
this incident yet they don't know how to
find this Mr. Hyde but Dr. Jekyll tells
the people that Mr. Hyde is very sick and
needs his help.
Jekyll even fears for his wife Elisabeth
(Glynis Barber) when he changes at night
as he sees nightmares involving her and
has to escape before she's his next
victim.
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Oh yes a great
retelling of the story Jekyll
& Hyde as it still sets to
look like an old fashioned horror flick
with a simple story and not too overlong
plot.
Lots of good scenery and light effects
which adds alot of artsy type of appeal
to this horror flick.
A well done tale (Although it's at times
weak in some spots) with great
performances by everyone all cast &
crew that were involved with this piece
and was hoping for a sequel after
watching the ending but it never arose
but I guess this was meant to have a
beginning and en end to it.
The acting is
nicely performed mainly by Anthony
Perkins who shows he can carry of
his Norman Bates type of character in
this film showing he is totally versatile
playing two characters bringing that
coldness to his Hyde part and a calmness
to his Dr. Jekyll part. I greatly miss Perkins
as he was a gifted actor.
Glynis Barber brings charm to her
part as the lovely and caring wife
bringing an old fashioned likeness to her
part.
Of course we can't forget about
supporting actress Sarah Maur
Thorp as an insane prostitute of Mr.
Hyde's as she really had that cackly
laugh to make herself worthy for this
horror flick.
There are numerous
breast shots by actresses playing
prostitutes.
Some guys are in the background of the
film naked from a bathhouse.
A woman's pantyhose is cut open and her
butt is revealed.
Numerous bloodied
slit throats.
Gérard Kikoïne
is off to a fairly descent start on the
film as he makes it look very old
fashioned like showing Sarah Maur
Thorp as a prostitue in a barn
laughing evilly.
There is a nice shot on Anthony
Perkins waking up from a nightmare
gasping for breath.
There's also great shots on Perkins
doing an experiment with a body lying
down and good shots on a dissecting knife
touching someone's eye.
Another great shot on Perkins staring
at himself in the mirror when he changes
and wants to see himself.
There is a strong moment between Perkins
and supporting actress Cathy Murphy
who plays a prostitute in a big room
where he first acts vicious like he is
about to rape her and then acts calm.
There is a scene where he slaps her a bit
but that looks a little low and slacking
as the pace needed to be picked up.
However, their dialogue together seemed a
little smooth and intense at the same
time which was perfect. Murphy
does well by being intimidated a bit with
all of this and there was a nice blue
light shining on them.
There is also a nice dark shot on
Perkins with light shining on his
eyes from the top of a building. Plus,
there's a good shot of him behind
supporting actress Carolyn Cortez
strangling her which looked quite tense.
Perkins does well by getting blunt
about what he has to say at a banquet
type of area while having dinner with
people showing good emotions.
There is a nice scene at a whorehouse
with Perkins athat also involves
Thorp
acting savagely lustful towards him and
he yet behaves roughly as all of this
came together perfectly. A good lustful
scene with Ben Cole and Thorp
as it looked very insane like.
We have a great dialogue sequence between
Glynis Barber and Perkins
in their bedroom during a thunderstorm as
it almost looks romantic but yet Perkins
does do well when he acts tense and
changing into his hyde form with good
expressions acting disturbed by what is
happening and groaning too. There's good
hallucinations that involves him during
this moment along with Thorp
cackling.
A nice shot on Barber walking
into a barn looking around and a perfect
shot on Thorp cackling and
acting crazy with Cole being
hung upside down. Perkins really
drew intensity with all of this and
Barber does well by being spooked on all
of this.
Perkins shows nice menacing looks as
Hyde when he creeps up with a dissecting
knife ready to kill close to the end of
the film.
The music was
strongly and classically composed by
French composer Frédéric Talgorn as
he gave it that true old fashioned
Jekyl & Hyde feel to it as
it had the perfect chemistry to the
storylines.
Jack 'the Ripper'
Hyde: You didn't really think I
killed myself did ya???
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