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  • Actors: Anthony Perkins, Glynis Barber, David Lodge, Sarah Maurthorp, Ben Cole
  • Directors: Gerard Kikoine
  • Producers: Edward Simons
  • Format: PAL
  • Subtitles: French, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Greek
  • Dubbed: French, Italian
  • Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English, German
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
  • DVD Release Date: 4 Oct. 2004
  • Run Time: 90 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0002VF566
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 32,791 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Anthony Perkins stars in this horror fusion of R.L.Stevenson's classic Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde story and a Jack the Ripper plotline, set in nineteenth-century London. Dr Jekyll (Perkins) is a respectable doctor whose research into anaesthetics leads him to the inadvertent discovery of cocaine. The drug transforms him into the murderous lowlife Jack Hyde, a savage psychopath who roams the streets looking for prey in brothels and opium dens. Meanwhile, the depraved killer Jack the Ripper is slicing his way through the alleys of Whitechapel, leaving mutilated streetwalkers in his wake. Could there be a a connection between these two savage and deadly characters?

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When Henry Jekyll's experiments with cocaine have gotten out of control, he transforms into the hideous Jack Hyde.

As Hyde he searches the London streets at night for his prey in whorehouses and opium dens.

The police can't catch him, he has nothing to lose but his mind.....

The illness wasn't doing Perkins any good at this late stage in his life, but thankfully he puts i a grandeur performance in what other wise is a film with all style and no substance.

By day, Perkins is the mild mannered doctor, just him, his wife, and a monkey in a cage with a shed load of coke.

By night he turns into some sort of New Romantic anti hero, Lipstick and all, and the film turns into some sort of Hazy Fantasy Simon Le Bon would be proud of.

And this is where it loses it's way. There s no real back up as to why the doctor sees that woman from the beginning. There is a hint that he is sexually repressed, but it's never really explored enough.

We are just treated to the fact that Jekyll hates women due to something that happened to him, so when he turns into Phil Oakey from the Human League, he can unleash the beast.

It's not a bad movie, just too eighties, if something could be that.

Worth watching for Perkins.
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I felt drawn to the edge of my sanity watching this woeful movie, although I can hardly complain as I had read the synopsis – that’s what I get for wanting to see something simply because Anthony Perkins is in it.

The film has been described as a horror fusion because it links the Jekyll and Hyde story with Jack the Ripper and after you’ve seen one prostitute murdered you pretty much begin to get the picture. I’m not sure that the fashion fusion between the Victorian and Eighties style made the film any easier to watch either – look out for the Boy belt buckle which I’ve recently seen advertised on the internet for only £9.99. Likewise the set designs and fashions are pretty obvious and unsubtle with sumptuous interiors and white clothing for Dr Jekyll when he is at home in contrast to the dark and gothic interiors of the brothel and the streets. If anything can be said in its favour it is that there is both male and female partial undress and not all the violence is meted out against women. I’m not sure if the film is meant to be ironically funny at all but if so then it passed me by - despite this it was only the presence of Anthony Perkins and Glynis Barber as his wife that made the movie remotely passable.

Certainly not the worst horror film I’ve ever seen but definitely not the best – the only moral to be gleaned is don’t take drugs or you will be eternally trapped in a late 1980s flashback.
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Anthony Perkins pedigree as Norman Bates in Hitchcock's classic "Psycho" ensures a suitably committed and menacing portrayal of Mr. Hyde in this reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic "Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde".

The film strays from the novel by the inclusion of a wife Elisabeth Jekyll (Glynis Barber) and a gradual fusing of Hyde into Jack the Ripper. The film really interweaves two different styles which is unsettling but emphasises the dual personality of Jekyll. First there is the well acted drama between Jekyll and his wife Elisabeth as Jekyll becomes increasingly overwhelmed by Hyde, with good production values and adequate dialogue.

Alongside this are the rampages of Hyde as he slashes his way through the Victorian underworld, with much (some would say excessive) nudity and gore. This would be acceptable in the context of a gradual increase in the level of violence as Hyde attains ascendancy over Jekyll, but instead it is just repetitious gratuitous horror.

With the above reservations I enjoyed this reworking of the Jekyll and Hyde story, but if the story does not interest you it is best left alone.
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The item came really fast, in perfect condition.Everything is as described.Picture quality is great.This movie is classic, really good horror from late 80's.The price is cheap so, I recommend it!
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