Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde

(1971)

★ 6.2 IMDb · 112 votes

Genres: Horror

Year: 1971

Runtime: 93 мин

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Roy Ward Baker

Cast: Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick, Gerald Sim, Lewis Fiander, Susan Brodrick, Dorothy Alison, Ivor Dean, Philip Madoc, Irene Bradshaw, Neil Wilson

Plot

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.

In Victorian London, Dr. Henry Jekyll is a research scientist who searches the cure of many common diseases. However, he is a very reserved and shy man and spends most of his time working on his home laboratory. One day, his friend Professor Robertson visits him and advises that he would probably die before the conclusion of his studies. Dr. Jekyll decides to create an elixir of life, based on feminine hormones, to extend his life since women live longer than men. He uses feminine hormones stolen from fresh corpses. The effect of the elixir of life releases his feminine repressed side, and he becomes an aggressive, gorgeous and evil woman, Mrs. Hyde. When the bodies finish in the city morgue, Dr. Jekyll begins killing a number of young women to proceed with his research.