UK, Hungary, 1988
88m, 7939 feet
35mm film, Eastmancolor
Dolby Stereo, English
A British/Hungarian horror film directed by Gerard Kikoïne.
Plot Summary
Henry Jekyll experiments with cocaine, causing him to transform into the brutal Jack Hyde who haunts Victorian London’s brothels and and opium dens.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Gerard Kikoïne
© MCMLXXXVIII [1988] Allied Vision Limited
Edward Simons presents an Allied Vision production. In association with Hungarofilm. Distributed by August Entertainment
Executive Producer: Peter A. McRae
Produced by: Edward Simons, Harry Alan Towers
Associate Producer: James Swann, Maria Rohm
Screenplay by: J.P. Felix, Ron Raley
Director of Photography: Tony Spratling
Edited by: Malcolm Cooke
Music Composed, Orchestrated and Conducted by: Frederic Talgorn
Sound Mixer: Paul Sharkey
Wardrobe Designer: Valerie Lanee
Make-up Supervisor: Gordon Kaye
Hairdresser: Carol Bennett
Special FX Supervisor: Ian Wingrove (U.K Second Unit)
Production Designer: Jean Charles Dedieu
Casting Director: Maggie Sanguin
Filmed at the Mafilm Studios
Cast
Anthony Perkins (Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde)
Glynis Barber (Elisabeth Jekyll)
Sarah Maur-Thorp (Susannah)
David Lodge (Underwood)
Ben Cole (Johnny)
Ray Jewers (Newcomen)
Lisa Davis (Maria)
Jill Melford (Flora)
Noël Coleman (Egglestone)
Briony Mcroberts (Ann Underwood)
Mark Elliot (Lanyon)
Harry Landis (coroner)
Jill Pearson (Mrs Egglestone)
Basil Hoskins (Mr Bollingham)
Ruth Burnett (Margot)
Carolyn Cortez (Maggie)
Cathy Murphy (cockney prostitute)
Claudia Utley (Liza)
Alternative Titles
Al borde de la locura – Argentina, Spain
Au-delà de la folie – Canada (French video)
A Beira da Loucura – Brazil
À Beira da Loucura – Portugal
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde – Australia (advertising)
Dr. Jekyll et Mr. Hyde – France
Dr. Jekyll e Mr. Hyde: sull’orlo della follia – Italy
Järjen tuolla puolen – Finland
Na krawędzi szaleństwa – Poland
Nattens inkräktare – Sweden (video)
Split – Edge of Sanity – Germany
Su última psicosis – Mexico
На грани безумия – Russia
На межі безумства – Ukraine
References
Periodicals
- City Limits no.395 (20 April 1989) p.22 – review
- The Hollywood Reporter vol.307 no.10 (18 April 1989) pp.4, 121 – credits, review
- Interzone no.29 (May/June 1989) p.46 – review (by Nick Lowe)
- Monthly Film Bulletin vol.57 no.680 (September 1990) p.261 – credits, synopsis, review
- Sight & Sound vol.14 no.11 (November 2004) p.75 – DVD review (Edge of Sanity by Ronnie Hackston)
- Variety 12 April 1989 pp.24, 26 – credits, review
Books
- The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror by Phil Hardy (ed.) p.431 – credits, review
- English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby p.285
- The Films of the Eighties by Robert A.Nowlan and Gwendolyn Wright Nowlan p.162 – credits, synopsis
- Horror and Science Fiction Films IV by Donald C. Willis p.151 – credits
- Horror Films of the 1980s by John Kenneth Muir pp.727-728 – credits, synopsis, review
- Serial Killer Cinema: An Analytical Filmography by Robert Cetti pp.142-143 – illustrated review
