DIRECTED BY Gerard Kikoine
YEAR 1989

ALSO STARRING
Glynis Barber, Sarah Maur Thorp

BEST QUOTE
"Don't talk to her like that you little shit" or "You didn't think I was.....dead? Did you?" are my personal favourites! The latter in particular is delivered with such a mischievous tone.

BEST MOMENT
Dr Jekyll has a limp, but after the transformation is made into Jack 'The Ripper' Hyde, we see Tony briskly strolling down the cobbled streets, swinging his cane by his side!

WORST MOMENT
His nasty nasty dream! Oh, and groping that prostitute on the roof. Put 'em away, love!

SEE THIS IF YOU LIKE:
From Hell, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

REVIEW:
I dragged myself out of bed at 4 o'clock in the morning to catch this one, thanks to a broken video recorder! Yes, that's dedication for you folks. So my state of half-asleep delirium may have tainted my perception of the film. Either way, it's not too pretty! Well... it's not ALL bad - parts of it are very funny. Let me rephrase that... TONY is very funny. He really hams it up, not taking himself too seriously and reflecting on his typecast "psychopaths only" persona. He plays the characters of Henry Jekyll and Jack Hyde to the hilt, never waning in his intensity and animated portrayals. He pulls it off spectacularly, and I didn't think it came across as campy or over the top at all. However, the opening scene put me off almost enough to make me say "screw this" and go back to bed! It's a pervy nightmare about some repressed childhood memory that wakes his character up... but I'm glad I stayed for the whole thing... I think...

Let me just say, before I go on, that if you are truly fed up with seeing Tony play insane characters then you should definitely avoid Edge of Sanity. Trust me. It will make you angry. Very, VERY angry. Just read Anabella's Review!

The basic concept is to re-tell the Jekyll & Hyde story, much darker this time, and also neatly winds in elements of the notorious Jack The Ripper. The "potion" that transforms the doctor into a night walking maniac is replaced, oddly enough, by a bong that he carries around and smokes as he engages in his little rampages. Well, talk about a bad trip! Take the kinky fetishism of Crimes of Passion, knock down the good taste factor about 20 notches, and you're there.

As Jack Hyde slithers his way into the backstreet brothel, the Madame says something like, "Well hello handsome, what can we do for you?" and I thought, "Ha. for the very first time I actually disagree!". Because he is creeeeepy looking. I wouldn't want to run into him in a dark alley! There was only one scene that I had read about prior to seeing this film, and when I came to watch it the exact thought that had occurred to me during the remake of Psycho came squerming back. Picture this: Vince Vaughn, as he peers through the hole in the wall at Anne Heche undressing, begins to...*cough*... "spank the monkey". And in an attempt to make the embarrassing situation better I think, "Thank God I'll never have to see Tony Perkins doing that!". Well, I can now say that I have! Boy did that wake me up...