Edge of Sanity

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde meets Jack the Ripper with Anthony Perkins

In London, 1888, Dr. Jekyll accidently discovers a form of smoking crack in the Victorian Era and thus his bestial alter ego, Mr. Hyde, goes on murderous excursions in the dead of night with oversexed prostitutes being his preferred prey. Glynis Barber is on hand as his beautiful, trusting wife, Elisabeth.

"Edge of Sanity (1989) is like a Hammer horror flick updated to the late 80s, mixing "The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll" (1960), Demons of the Mind (1972) and The Creeping Flesh (1973) with Psycho III (1986). While its superior to Demons of the Mind, its not quite as good as the other three. You can tell its low-budget, but makes up for it with Perkins knockout per...

"Edge of Sanity" often features scenes of sordid debauchery - Jekyll's amoral sexual attitudes stem from his childhood experiences, according to this film - which frequently run the risk of going too far in a film that quite frankly uses the extraordinarily imaginative and highly influencial central idea from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel as nothing more than a loosely presented excuse for all the sexual shenanigans that are going on. The results are of extremely limited consequence and it is obvious the film makers didn't really have much money to work with because Jekyll simply resembles Iggy Pop on this occasion instead of transforming into an entirely different person. The unfortunate reality is that this film unquestionably had the potential of being so much more than it actually is.