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.
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.