United Kingdom, Hungary 1989Language:EnglishSubtitles:GermanDirector:Gérard KikoïneWriter:J.P. Félix, Ron Raley based on the novel "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis StevensonCinematographer:Tony SpratlingEditor:Malcolm CookeWith:Anthony Perkins, Glynis Barber, Sarah Maur ThorpProducer:Jacques Fiorentino, Edward Simons, Harry Alan TowersProduction Company:Allied Vision90 min, Colour

Gérard Kikoïne’s sleazy 80s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous horror novella “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” mixes it with the murders of Jack the Ripper. As a result, the film does not dwell on an intensive character study of Jekyll, but instead focuses on Hyde’s nefarious deeds as a prostitute murderer in bloody, surreal scenes of sex and murder. “Numerous expressionist shadow plays and oblique angles are employed in order to visualise a Victorian pandemonium of amorality and immorality. The murders are thereby portrayed all too drastically, and Anthony Perkins also delivers a little too much of a good thing.” (FILMDIENST)

Director's Biography:Gérard Kikoïne, born in France in 1946, is a director and editor. He got his start in the film business with porn movies. In the early 1980s, he shot softcore films for producer Harry Alan Towers, who then entrusted him with directing fantasy and horror films.

Director's Filmography:

1988 DRAGONARD
1987 DER HERR VON DRAGONARD HILL
1985 LA RONDE DE L’AMOUR
1985 GEFÄHRLICHE LEIDENSCHAFTEN


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