Directed by Walerian Borowczyk • 1981 • France, West Germany
Starring Udo Kier, Marina Pierro, Gérard Zalcberg
It’s the engagement party for brilliant young Dr. Henry Jekyll (Udo Kier) and his fiancée, the beautiful Fanny Osbourne (Marina Pierro), attended by various pillars of Victorian society. But when people are found raped and murdered both outside and inside the house, it becomes clear that a madman has broken in to disrupt the festivities—but who is he? And why does Dr. Jekyll keep sneaking off to his laboratory? We know the answer, of course, but Walerian Borowczyk’s visually stunning adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s oft-filmed tale is crammed with wildly imaginative and outrageously perverse touches, not least the explicitly sexualized nature of Mr. Hyde’s primal urges.
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