I, Monster

  • Horror
  • Science Fiction
11/1/1971
70
PG

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Christopher Lee stars in this Amicus production of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde” where the names have been changed to Dr. Marlowe and Mr. Blake. Lee as Dr. Marlowe experiments with intravenous drugs that are suppose to release inner inhibitions. So comes forth Mr. Blake (also Lee) who gets more monstrous with each transformation. Peter Cushing plays his friend and colleague, Dr. Utterson.

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  • John Chard

    Charles Marlowe is I, Monster.

    I, Monster is directed by Stephen Weeks and written by Milton Subotsky. An interpretation of Robert Louis Stevensons The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, it stars Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Mike Raven, Richard Hurndall, George Merritt, Kenneth J. Warren, Susan Jameson and Marjie Lawrence. Music is by Carl Davis and cinematography by Moray Grant.

    Kept By The Power Of God!

    Stevensons age old tale gets another make-over as Dr. Charles Marlowe (Lee) invents a drug that releases his patients inhibitions. However, upon trying the drug himself, Marlowe finds that he turns into the monstrous Mr. Blake, who with each transformation becomes more cruel and debauched.

    Dull an...

    November 4, 2013
  • Wuchak

    Amicus version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with Lee and Cushing

    In 1906, a psychologist in London entertains Freudian theories while experimenting with drug injections, which he eventually tries on himself with damaging results.

    I, Monster (1971) changes the two names of the protagonist/antagonist (Christopher Lee) simply to preserve the surprise of the well-known plot twist in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. They did this because there had been so many versions of the story done in cinema by that point. The rival studio, Hammer, did a version eleven years earlier, The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll, and were doing another variation the same year this came out, Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde. Producers even tried to hide th...

    April 15, 2025

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