'Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde' (1971) - Roy Ward Baker.
The legendary Hammer Films successfully transitions from the more conventionally cobweb-slathered Gothic tropes of the 50s into the garishly permissive 70s with talented filmmaker, Roy Ward Baker's luridly titillating terror treat, 'Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde', a darkly sardonic reimagining of, Robert Louis Stevenson's immortal literary classic, and arguably one of Hammer Films more progressive bodice-ripping shockers!
Master scrivener, Brian Clemens inventive text retains all its gleeful gallows humour and deliciously convention seeking audacity! There can be no argument that the diabolically duplicitous, glamorously gender bending, deliriously death-dealing duo of talented Thespians, Ralph Bates and Martine Beswick remain two of the most attractively wrong-headed villains in Hammer Films rightfully celebrated canon of vividly cinematic monstrosity! The outré masterpiece, 'Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde' indubitably had a subverting effect on my prepubescent mind, due in no small parts to the singularly scintillating presence of the perfectly pulchritudinous, dazzlingly vulpine, Martine Beswick!!!
'Hyde The Salami!' - Weirdlingwolf.
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