Dr. Jekyll & Mistress Hyde (2003) (V)

User Rating:

4.9/10   

Director:

Tony Marsiglia

Writers:

Bruce G. Hallenbeck (screenplay) and
Robert Louis Stevenson (novel)

Release Date:

20 May 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Dr. Jackie Stevenson is a Los Angeles based therapist and scientist who tries to invent a serum to separate...

Plot Keywords:

Prostitute | Lesbian | Scientist | Lesbian Erotica | Erotica

Cast

Julian Wells	...	Dr. Jackie Stevenson / Heidi Hyde
Misty Mundae	...	Martine Flagstone / Dawn Hopkins
Ruby Larocca	...	Paula Beswick (as Ruby LaRocca)
Andrea Davis	...	Ingrid
Boz Tennyson	...	Richard Stevenson

Also Known As:

The Erotic Experiments of Dr. Jekyll and Mistress Hyde (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Certification:

USA:Unrated | UK:X | Canada:R (Ontario)

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Seduction Cinema

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Die and Let Live (2006)

Robert Louis Stevenson would be proud! ....or not.

I got my introduction to Seduction Cinema a couple of weeks ago with the decent 'Sin Sisters', and while it was a long way both from being brilliant and from the hardcore pornography I'm used to; it was just about good enough to warrant seeing another. Dr Jekyll and Mistress Hyde is very much along the same lines as Sin Sisters in terms of style and plotting, although as the title suggests; the film takes it's backbone from the Robert Louis Stevenson classic novel 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'. The film puts lesbian sex at its forefront (nothing wrong with that) and probably took about two minutes to write. Stevenson's classic easily lends itself to a sex film, and here we focus on Dr Jackie Stevenson (nice name...), a female scientist that has developed a drug to do...something...to women. After trying it on herself, she develops an alter-ego - except this time the alter ego doesn't turn to murder, it turns to having sex with the sultry Misty Mundae, whom Jackie meets at a bus stop. From there, we follow the bizarre love story to its unexpected final twist.

The film looks like it was shot with a video camera and probably cost just a fistful of dollars to make. The performances are terrible, with the female leads looking great while delivering awful lines of dialogue in a horribly wooden way. This doesn't matter, of course, as the whole point of the film is simply for its male audience members to enjoy themselves, although it doesn't deliver too much on that front either. Like the performances, the sex is wooden and fake looking and while the initial seduction between Misty Mundae and Julian Wells is rather nice, the rest of the film just sort of rolls on. However, despite its many shortcomings - Dr Jekyll and Mistress Hyde is a real fun film to watch. It's all so stupid that you'd have to be completely humourless not to have a laugh at it, and watching the female leads go at each other is nice even though it's not very well done. Mundae and Wells bode extremely well together as they're polar opposites, and it's obvious that director Tony Marsiglia knows that. The ending feels incredibly tacked on; but given all the lacklustre ways they could have ended it, the conclusion isn't too bad. Overall; this film is OK with me.