Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971)

17/10/1971 (GB)•Horror•1h 37m

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

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.

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Ralph Bates
Dr. Jekyll
Martine Beswick
Sister Hyde
Gerald Sim
Professor Robertson
Lewis Fiander
Howard
Susan Brodrick
Susan
Dorothy Alison
Mrs. Spencer
Ivor Dean
Burke
Philip Madoc
Byker
Irene Bradshaw
Yvonne

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A review by Wuchak

6.0

Written by Wuchak on May 12, 2022

_**What if Dr. Jekyll morphed into an alluring woman rather than a monster?**_ In the late 1880s, murders of prostitutes start piling up in the Whitechapel district of east London where a professor (Gerald Sim) starts to suspect a colleague (Ralph Bates), who’s working on a curious elixir of life that needs female hormones taken from fresh cadavers. Martine Beswick plays Jekyll’s “sister.” "Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde” (1971) was the third Hammer film inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's famous story from 1886. The other two were "The Ugly Duckling" (1959), a horror comedy, and “The Tw...