Henry Jekyll is a young science student who, along with his friend Mary, experiments with various drugs and compounds in order to create a personality-enhancing drug that he believes will turn him into the successful and popular person he so craves to be. But after testing the drug on Mary and himself, Jekyll discovers it has horrific consequences - ones that he might not be able to control.
Practical Effects
Hyde's grotesque makeup effects are genuinely unsettling on the budget.
Acting
Bryan Fisher commits fully to Jekyll's pathetic desperation.
Director
Nick Stillwell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of several low-budget Jekyll & Hyde adaptations rushed out around 2006 when the story entered public domain in the UK.
The rave setting specifically targets the moral panic around ecstasy in mid-2000s North American media, making it a fascinating time capsule of prohibition-era horror.
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