Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde

Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde

PARENTS: Be sure your children are sufficiently mature to witness the intimate details of this frank and revealing film.

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Release Date

10/17/1971

Runtime

97 mins

Genres

Overview

In foggy London Dr Jekyll experiments on newly deceased women determined to discover an elixir for immortal life. Success enables his spectacular transformation into the beautiful but psychotic Sister Hyde who stalks the dark alleys of Whitechapel for young, innocent, female victims, ensuring continuation of the bloodstained research. With each transformation Sister Hyde becomes the more dominant personality, determined to eventually suppress the frail, ineffectual Dr Jekyll forever.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

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Revenue

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A Victorian-era body-horror reimagining of Jekyll and Hyde that uses sex change as a conduit for exploring madness and the duality of desire and control. The film couples grotesque scientific transgression with genuine psychological menace.

Mood

UnsettlingDread-soakedTense

Themes

ObsessionIdentityMortality

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticHigh-contrast

Structure

Linear

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Graphic violenceSexual content

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