The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2006)

User Rating:

3.5/10   

Director:

John Carl Buechler

Writers:

John Carl Buechler (writer)
Robert Louis Stevenson (novel)

Release Date:

1 February 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

Release the Beast!

Plot Keywords:

Robert Louis Stevenson | Paranoid Schizophrenia | Based On Novel | Character Name In Title

Cast

Tony Todd	...	Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde
Tracy Scoggins	...	Karen Utterson
Vernon Wells	...	Dr. Dennis Lanyon
Danielle Nicolet	...	Whitney Weddings
Stephen Wastell	...	Detective Richard Enfield (as Steve Wastell)
Deborah Shelton	...	Donna Carew
Judith Shekoni	...	Renee (as Judi Shekoni)
Tim Thomerson	...	Arnie Swift
Peter Jason	...	Lt. Hamilton
Peter Lupus III	...	Gerald Poole
Tyler Kain	...	Colleen Woodbe
Nicholle Tom	...	Carla Hodgkiss
Elina Madison	...	Cindy Shivers
Jacob Tawney	...	Jimmy Iverson
Michelle Lee	...	Kim Li

MPAA:

Rated R for horror violence/gore and language.

Runtime:

USA:89 min (DVD)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:R | Australia:MA

Filming Locations:

Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Fantastical Cinema LLC

Movie Connections:

Version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912)

Wow... Just Wow...

I'm not going into the story, as I'm sure most people are familiar with the story of Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde already, so I'm just gonna go with the technical aspects. The film looked like a film school student's attempt to make a full-length feature. The actors were sub-par, the settings looked fake (I mean come on... a chief of police should have an actual OFFICE, not a CUBICLE!!), the dialog was amazingly horrible (listen to the dialog between Utterson, who is the chick detective, and the chief of police... it is so bad, it's hilarious!) and the special effects were low-quality. Mr. Hyde's make-up looked ridiculous... I think they used 2 wigs for Hyde, as in some scenes it looked black and in other scenes, it looked brown. The ending (which, as I said, I will not divulge)... well... what I will say about the ending is that it didn't tie the story up for me in a neat little package. In fact, the whole story was so jumbled up and it's obvious that the script needed at least one or two more revisions. Overall, it was confusing and it looked cheaply made. However, if you're stuck watching it with your boyfriend because he has to screen it for work, as was my case, it was a lot of fun joking the movie the whole time. But otherwise, I wouldn't pay to see this movie.