
In Victorian London, Dr. Henry Jekyll attempts to create an elixir of life using female hormones stolen from fresh corpses. He reasons that these hormones will wipe out all common diseases and extend his life since women live much longer than men. However, once Dr. Jekyll drinks the serum himself, he transforms into a gorgeous but evil woman. He soon needs female hormones for his serum to maintain, so a number of London women meet bloody deaths.... (Full plot summary below)
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In Victorian London, Dr. Henry Jekyll attempts to create an elixir of life using female hormones stolen from fresh corpses. He reasons that these hormones will wipe out all common diseases and extend his life since women live much longer than men. However, once Dr. Jekyll drinks the serum himself, he transforms into a gorgeous but evil woman. He soon needs female hormones for his serum to maintain, so a number of London women meet bloody deaths.
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| StarburstJohn HigginsIt is Martine Beswick who steals the show. |
| User Reviewmirabella 1What can I say? This is one of the BEST films ever made!! The premise sounds silly, but it really works & is a superior entry in the genre. The story in a nutshell is as follows : the noble Dr.Jekyll toils away in his basement lab, hoping to discover the universal panacea to end all of mankind's suffering. His research leads him to the conclusion that female hormones are a key ingredient in his miracle potion. When Burke & Hare can no longer keep up with his increasing demands for fresh young female corpses, the good doctor is faced with a terrible dilemma....should he 'play God' & take the lives of a few in order to save 1000s? As fate would have it, the burden of a decision is taken from him when he first tests some of the elixir on himself & finds that he is transformed, not into evil Mr.Hyde, but into a beautiful, but deadly, Mrs.Hyde!! There is no question in HER mind that a few unfortunates should be dispatched....but it is not for the greater good that she is prepared to kill. She wants to LIVE!. And so, the battle between good & evil commences & the struggle for domination of poor old Dr.J's body begins. Like I said, it sounds silly, but it REALLY is very, very good!!! Excellent portrayals in the 2 leads by British stalwarts Ralph Bates & Martine Beswick. Directed by Roy Ward Baker. |
| User Reviewchristine mDeliciously evil Miss Hyde/Jill the Ripper (Martine Beswick) stalks atmospheric streets of late-Victorian London and obnoxious young Doc (Ralph Bates) is not innocent, either. Perfect companion piece to equally great Hands of the Ripper. |
| User ReviewParty Pete. CThis one is freaky, cross dressin hydey a weird way of mixin the plot. 9.8/10 |
| User ReviewBill MOne of my top favorite Hammer horror films. Finally found a copy on DVD! |
| User ReviewStephen CWhat do you get when you cross Jack the Ripper with Burke and Hare and Jekyll and Hyde? Well you get this horror classic from Hammer ,that conatains some gender bending as well. Ralph Bates plays Jekyll who is looking to rid the world of all knows diseases and find the secret to eternal life. During this quest he discovers that Women and certain parts of thier bodies hold the secret which leads hin to recruit Burke And Hare to gehter his bodies. He then carries out and Experiment on himself which turns him into Sister Hyde played by Martine Beswick a beautiful woman but with danger and muder in her soul. Whne Jekylls source of corspes dries up he is forced to muder him self and of course he lives in Whitechapel in the 19th century so of course he becomes Jack the Ripper. I hope you can follow all that because writer Brian Clemens has chucked every Victorian gothic cliche in here and by some miracle it works wonderfully. Beswicke and Bates do look alike so that a big plus and we get lashings of Hammer blood and boobies and a serious gay undertone and questions about sexual identity. Director Roy Ward Baker is clearly having a blast with all this nonsense and how can you not lovea film where a person satring at a corpse merley says "Burke By name ,Berk by nature" Glorious stuff and one of Hammers best films of the 70s |
| User ReviewBill TScarlet-dressed Miss Hyde/Jill the Ripper stalks the streets of Victorian London in this Hammer masterpiece. Excellent script by Brian Clemens and wonderful score by David Whitaker, too. |
| User ReviewTristan PExcellent latter day Hammer gothic with an "everything including the kitchen sink" mentality: you've got a transgender Jekyll/Hyde thing, a Jack the Ripper angle, AND a Burke and Hare angle. Wow! Ralph Bates was likable but never really much of an actor (it's hard to believe Hammer ever believed Ralph Bates and Mike Raven could be the new Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee...), and he's really about average here. The show belongs to the gorgeous Martine Beswick, who I really wish had been in more Hammer films (and more horror films in general). A bizarre classic. |
| User ReviewKrista GLewis Fiander's performance is as HILARIOUS as you'd expect. Silly but very entertaining. |
| User ReviewJean-Marie LInteresting and inventive take on the Jeckyll/Hyde story, but of course, it would be, it's Hammer. Entertaining throughout, and although sometimes unintentionally funny, it's still a great watch. I just love that ocncept so much. |