'We can't waste any time she was talking about suicide.'
'Lots of people do mostly it's just talk.'
Welcome back to my Dark Corner of this Sick World.
'There’s no understanding the village people.’
Yeah, especially the construction worker.
‘The old boy means well’
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is perhaps my favourite horror story,
deftly blending visceral and psychological horror as Dr Jekyll takes his potion to become...
‘Mr Hyde, a human werewolf’
perhaps I don’t know the story as well as I thought I did.
And that’s not a werewolf.
‘Are you sure’
Yes I’m sure!
‘The villagers broke into his tomb and drove a stake through his heart’
Hang on, is he a werewolf or a vampire cos werewolf is silver bullet.
‘We know how to deal with werewolves’
Clearly you don’t.
‘You're just trying to serve up trouble with your wicked nonsence’
Okay let’s back up, this is Edgar G. Ulmer’s Daughter of Dr Jekyll and, given the title,
I am reasonably confident this has something to do with Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
‘Are you serious?’
Although not as confident as I was.
'I've had enough of mysteries, now I want answers’
The film follows Janet who discovers that she is daughter of Dr Jekyll
‘’Not the Dr Jekyll?’
Yes, the well known werewolf- and I’m still not happy about that,
but the film does at least retain the idea Jekyll takes a potion to transform himself.
‘Looks like it could have been used a chemical labortaory’
Really? What tipped you off?
‘I was the dull plodder’
Janet doesn’t take this news well, especially as others seem determined to rub it in.
‘Do you want to change?’
You can’t say that to a Jekyll!
‘After good night's sleep, you’ll feel like another girl’
Perhaps because of this she becomes convinced that she has inherited her father’s lycanthropy.
‘Why should it be hereditary’
Good question.
Since Jekyll took a potion to transform it would be a little like never getting a headache cos your father took an aspirin.
‘This is ridiculous’
Still, a series of vivid nightmares and bloody deaths convince Janet that she too is a werewolf.
‘Why you little idiot’
and she and her boyfriend start researching the subject using what appears to be a book on tape.
'Sometimes a dead body... sometimes a human monster.'
Either that or she can hear his thoughts.
'To put a stop to it's ravages a stake is put through the corpse.'
And vice versa.
'Nonsense'
But actually it’s her guardian Dr Loomis who turns out to be the werewolf.
Do wolves usually kick their prey to death?
‘It's good enough for me’
Loomis uses Janet as a scapegoat for his killings just as he used her father.
‘He used Dr Jekyll in his earlier killings to get control of the estate’
Does beg the question of what he did for the 20 year gap between Jekyll’s death and Janet’s arrival.
‘Frankly I feel like an idiot’
The film takes place in a corner of England that is forever California .
‘At least to The Toodor period’
Tudor.
‘I'm not local, I come from near Liverpool.’
And when the film takes place is even more speculative as can be seen by a comparison of ladies underwear.
But the main issue remains this has nothing to do with Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
‘Are you sure?’
This is a werewolf movie.'
'It is indeed.'
So why bother with all the Jekyll and Hyde stuff?
'I give up.'
I actually don’t have an answer, if you do, comments below…
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'Know what I hope we find?'
'Treasure.'
'No, a bathroom.'