Edge of Sanity

1989

Action / Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 33% · 6 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 31% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.3/10 10 1788 1.8K

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Plot summary

When his experiments into a powerful new anesthetic go hideously awry, respected physician Dr. Jekyll transforms into the hideous Jack Hyde. As his wife Elisabeth passes her time in charitable work, rehabilitating the district's fallen women, Hyde is drawn into an escalating cycle of lust and murder that seems to know no bounds.


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Anthony Perkins as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Jack 'The Ripper' Hyde
Harry Landis as Coroner
Glynis Barber as Elisabeth Jekyll
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by mark.waltz 2 / 10

Beware of this pickup artist.

This is basically one big just a trick of the trade for Mr. Hyde who is combined with Jack the Ripper in this Anthony Perkins film that was near the end of his career. Basically, he was taking any film offer that came along, and this just shows the desperation he was facing to work. The sad thing is that it looks like it was actually made with a decent budget, but the problem is that the script focuses on perversion rather than the story. It all starts when the future Dr. Henry Jekyll witnesses his father with a prostitute, and years later, he's a scientist experimenting with drugs who ends up transforming into a hideous looking old man whom women don't cringe and run away from. It's a disgusting, ugly promise from the start, and very unpleasant to watch.

The other big problem with the film is that the murders don't just happen. He goes out of his way to torture these women and the audience has to endure that agony along with the not too bright women he picks up. Even the non-horror scenes are very hard to watch, with Doctor Jekyll at one point working on someone's eyes with the camera too far close up. A scene where he uses a cane on one of the street girls is just too disgusting, first to pleasure her, and later to strangle her. Even with the attractive period set up, this is as much of a nightmare to get through as it is for the victims.

Reviewed by Woodyanders 8 / 10

Anthony Perkins invents crack cocaine and goes psycho once again

Prim and respectable physician Dr. Henry Jekyll (the late, great Anthony Perkins in sterling eye-rolling wacko form) transforms into the evil and deranged pasty-faced fiend Mr. Jack Hyde after a disastrous lab experiment inadvertently creates crack cocaine. Hyde terrorizes Victorian era London, England by savagely slaughtering prostitutes in the White Chapel district. Director Gerard Kikoine, working from a deliciously deviant and depraved script by J.P. Felix and Ron Raley, brings a genuinely shocking and surprising kinky sensibility to the familiar premise: The oodles of tasty female nudity (there's some male frontal nudity, too!), the startlingly raw'n'ribald perversity (a man watches from a window as Hyde pleasures a hooker with a cane in one especially lurid sequence), and the sizzling erotic sexuality all ensure that the incredibly seamy atmosphere reigns supremely sordid throughout. The sturdy acting from the capable cast rates as another major asset: Perkins has a histrionic field day in his juicy dual role, Glynnis Barber lends sound support as Jekyll's concerned wife Elisabeth, the fetching Sarah Maur Thorp vamps it up nicely as saucy tart Susannah, and Ben Cole positively oozes as slimy male hustler Johnny. The opulent set design, Tony Spratling's lush cinematography, the flavorsome evocation of the repressive Victorian period, and Frederic Talgorn's robust orchestral score give this picture an aura of class while the brutal killings draw a neat'n'nasty parallel to Jack the Ripper's notorious exploits. Good decadent fun.

Reviewed by gavin6942 6 / 10

Anthony Perkins Plays a Crazy man

Henry Jekyll (Anthony Perkins) experiments with cocaine, and the experiments have gotten out of control, transforming him into the hideous Jack Hyde. As Hyde he searches the London streets at night for his prey in whorehouses and opium dens.

Early in the film, we see a blade against an eye. This is a very impressive effect, clearly looking like a real eye and areal blade. (I mean, it is not "Un Chien Andalou", but what is?)

There is one scene with a bath house full of several nude men, one of whom is in a rather suggestive pose. I am surprised this passed the censors. While not sexual, this seemed a bit provocative to me. And what purpose did it serve? Was this just a way of showing the paradoxes and contradictions in Victorian society?

Is this an anti-drug film? I would say no, as it is not remotely a realistic portrayal of cocaine addiction. They could have just as easily invented a new drug for the purposes of the film. And yet, they did not do so -- so why single out cocaine?

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