Edge of Sanity

Dr. Jeckyll and misses wide.

Perkins finds himself trapped in an unusually twerpy interpretation of Stevenson's oft lensed "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". Here Perkins plays Hyde as a sort of demented "Crackula". Kikoine attempts to kinkify the primer-level script -- this is the type of pic wherein a doctor straightfacedly asks an obviously lash-marked hooker, "Did someone beat you up?" -- with nudity and odd erotic obsessions that do little to relieve the boredom.

Notable for the depraved and over the top performance of Perkins. The movie is lurid, cheap, and awful - it's sad to see Perkins wasting his talent on this at the end of his career.

This bizarre, garish mash-up of the stories featuring Jekyll & Hyde and Jack the Ripper is a bit of a stinker. Although Perkins brings a bit of class to proceedings, even he can't elevate a rotten script, and the whole look of the film wouldn't be amiss in a 1980s New Romantic music video. It's just all a bit silly. Some aspects, like the camerawork and music, are actually okay, but this is just a series of weird, gaudy encounters that work neither as a horror film nor as a crime drama.

So damn 80s