Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde

1971 97 min ★ 6.1 Horror

In foggy London Dr Jekyll experiments on newly deceased women determined to discover an elixir for immortal life. Success enables his spectacular transformation into the beautiful but psychotic Sister Hyde who stalks the dark alleys of Whitechapel for young, innocent, female victims, ensuring continuation of the bloodstained research. With each transformation Sister Hyde becomes the more dominant personality, determined to eventually suppress the frail, ineffectual Dr Jekyll forever.

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Cast

Ralph Bates

Dr. Jekyll

Martine Beswick

Sister Hyde

Gerald Sim

Professor Robertson

Lewis Fiander

Howard

Susan Brodrick

Susan

Dorothy Alison

Mrs. Spencer

Ivor Dean

Burke

Philip Madoc

Byker

Irene Bradshaw

Yvonne

Neil Wilson

Older Policeman

Details

Director

Roy Ward Baker

Screenplay

Brian Clemens

Tagline

"PARENTS: Be sure your children are sufficiently mature to witness the intimate details of this frank and revealing film."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Production

Hammer Film Productions

Reviews

J

John Chard

November 4, 2013

★ 8/10

Hammer’s Gender Bending of the Robert Louis Stevenson Story Is Deliciously Entertaining. Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde is directed by Roy Ward Baker and written by Brian Clemens. It stars Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick, Gerald Sim, Lewis Fiander, Susan Brodrick and Dorothy Alison. Music is by David Whitaker and cinematography by Norman Warwick. Dr. Henry Shekel (Bates) is working on an elixir t...

W

Wuchak

May 12, 2022

★ 6/10

_**What if Dr. Jekyll morphed into an alluring woman rather than a monster?**_ In the late 1880s, murders of prostitutes start piling up in the Whitechapel district of east London where a professor (Gerald Sim) starts to suspect a colleague (Ralph Bates), who’s working on a curious elixir of life that needs female hormones taken from fresh cadavers. Martine Beswick plays Jekyll’s “sister.” ...