You know, for scientific purposes. The tale focuses on Dr. The fake-out allows him to ribbon-cut the lady who tried to swindle him and stab the eye of her accomplice. Jekyll played by Anthony Perkins is set to reveal a new anesthesia that will forever change the face of medicine. And this is where the Jack the Ripper part comes in. When his monkey messes with the equipment, Jekyll becomes enveloped in a cloud of proto-freebase smoke and emerges as a man with a Goth look and a mind that has Prince's dirtiness and Charles Manson's pure evil.
He has no money, though. Bates The sad thing about Anthony Perkins career is after he did Psycho, he got type cast playing crazy characters. The murders gain the attention of a detective from Scotland Yard as well as Jekyll's wife Elisabeth, who begins to suspect where her husband is going at nights. Although he tries to banish these memories to the past, they'll end up coming out again in full force. Synopsis When Henry Jekyll's experiments with cocaine have gotten out of control, he transforms into the hideous Jack Hyde. He gives it a go as a sedative for a patient he's working on. Author: Verdict This movie is sheer sex and violence, but it's great to watch.
The police can't catch him, he has nothing to lose but his mind. The book uses the film as an example of sexual brutality against women in films. For the first time, Henry experienced a night in the life of his alter-ego Jack Hyde. While the film is for the most part clearly set in the Victorian era, some of the wardrobe seems deliberately anachronistic and modern, adding to the film's suurealistic ambience. As Hyde he searches the London streets at night for his prey in whorehouses and opium dens.
Turning Susannah over to Johnny is a great thrill for Hyde, but the double life is affecting Henry. She offers him a selection of women, but he declines, preferring to stick with a streetwalker. Plot coherence is the least of this film's qualities. Everybody's smiling at him, but the smiles are masks of pure evil. Then it suddenly jumps to the interior of a brothel where we are introduced to characters wearing openly '80s leather fashions and hairstyles and the whole period realism thing comes crashing down. Henry Jekyll as a young lad, hiding out in the loft of a barn.
After a day of work, night falls and Hyde is on the loose again, this time taking a tart to a rooftop, garotting her and turning her throat and ample chest into spaghetti marinara. A solid 9, and thanks for the great work, Mr. Félix , Ron Raley , Jacques Fiorentino , Edward Simons , Harry Alan Towers , Peter A. Another night, another woman for Hyde, this time from Flora's. Perkins is bloody convincing as Hyde, achieving his transformation through red-rimmed eyes and white makeup alone, and he's also very scary indeed.
Basically, he's riveting, and it's a good thing too when the rest of the film is almost worthless. Jekyll wakes up in the morning back to being himself. Was this just a way of showing the paradoxes and contradictions in Victorian society? Even his own wife has become a prostitute in his visions. Within a short span of time, they're all dead. As Hyde he searches the London streets at night for his prey in whorehouses and opium dens. This is a very impressive effect, clearly looking like a real eye and areal blade.
Her name is Susannah Thorp , and she's into the rough stuff and the drugs as much as Hyde is. A detective named Underwood Lodge is asking for Jekyll's assistance, and while he complies, Henry is re-living his childhood beatings over and over again. The direction is well done and I have to say the score was rather impressive for the budget. Every supporting actor and actress is wasted in their roles, either becoming stock story figures or, in the case of the women, pure sexuality. Speaking of London, the streets were appropriately dark and sinister and the sounds of horse-drawn carriages echoed throughout the narrow corridors. Needless to say, this event sets the tone for his future mental issues. There isn't much plot, so to speak of, and the police investigation seems tacked on and pointless.
It is sort of implied that Jeckyll's mysterious formula was some form of cocaine, because, hey, it was the 1980's and Nancy Reagan was all over that. It's actually fairly sloppy in its reproduction of 1880's London, with costumes that are anachronistic. For the budget the special effects are very good. I would say no, as it is not remotely a realistic portrayal of cocaine addiction. The actor is synonymous with horror thanks to one incredible, unforgettable performance: that of the one and only Norman Bates. There is one scene with a bath house full of several nude men, one of whom is in a rather suggestive pose.
All the cocaine he did has so screwed up his brain that in the mirror, he's seeing his victims, back from the dead and having sex with the man who beat him in the barn. But enough about the make-up, is this man he calls Jack Hyde scary? As Hyde he searches the London streets at night for his prey in whorehouses and opium dens. September 2014 A few exterior sets were filmed in London. Back on the streets, he's mugged. His father catches him and violently whips Henry for spying, scarring him for life and leading to repressed sadomasochistic longings. One night, after he transforms, Jekyll is followed by Elisabeth to a brothel and then from there to a sadomasochistic threesome at a local abandoned warehouse where both of Hyde's partners go crazy and attempt to kill each other and her.
And yet, they did not do so -- so why single out cocaine? When Henry Jekyll's experiments with cocaine have gotten out of control, he transforms into the hideous Jack Hyde. And what purpose did it serve? There's a lot of fumbling and groping amid the bloody throat-slashings and it's incredible some of the stuff that Perkins does in the film - does this man have no morals? It set the mood and captured that Victorian London feel. Before his wife's eyes, Jekyll becomes Hyde, and then runs out into the streets. Early in the film, we see a blade against an eye. His life is okay, but he's still haunted by horrible childhood memories of beatings administered to him after he viewed a couple making love in a barn.