The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne

Overview:

It's the engagement party for brilliant young Dr. Henry Jekyll and his fiancée, the beautiful Fanny Osbourne, attended by various pillars of Victorian society. But when people are found raped and murdered outside and ultimately inside the house, it becomes clear that a madman has broken in to disrupt the festivities - but who is he? And why does Dr. Jekyll keep sneaking off to his laboratory?

Released: 1981-06-17

Duration: 01:32:00

Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Walerian Borowczyk

Writer: Robert Louis Stevenson, Walerian Borowczyk

Cast: Clément Harari, Howard Vernon, Udo Kier, ...

Director: Walerian Borowczyk

Cast: Clément Harari Howard Vernon Udo Kier Patrick Magee Gérard Zalcberg Marina Pierro Jean Mylonas Eugene Braun Munk Louis Colla Catherine Coste Rita Maiden Michèle Maze Agnès Daems Magali Noaro Dominique Andersen Isabelle Cagnat Gisèle Préville

Genre: Horror Sci-Fi

Description

Dr. Henry Jekyll (Udo Kier), where the doctor is being feted before his engagement to the austere Miss Fanny Osborne (Marina Pierro). The guests, who are various dignitaries and officials, then arrive. After a meal, the doctor is summoned to his laboratory to get his will. He returns to the living room when a scream is heard where one of his guests has been discovered to have been raped and murdered.

Henry Jekyll transforms to his alter ego, Mr. Hyde (Gérard Zalcberg), by taking a bath filled with a chemical cocktail. He emerges physically transformed. His alter ego has none of the restrictions of morality, and he proceeds to rape and torture various guests.

Eventually Fanny witnesses one such transformation. She leaps into the bath to be transformed as well. The two transformed leave the house and in a carriage they depart, undertaking blood letting of each other and engaging in love making.