Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde

British director that we previously talked about in our episode on 63's Quatermas in the Pit.

He made a number of films in his native UK and in the US, including the 1953 3D film Inferno, 58's A Night to Remember, a Titanic film, and several Hammer pictures, including 69's Moon Zero Two, that's the mod space adventure, 1970's The Vampire Lovers and Scars of Dracula, 71's Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, as well as the 74 Hammer Shaw Brothers co-production, The Legend of the Golden Vampires.

Ah, yes.

So strong Hammer credentials here.

Yeah, it's just, like, the only, like, people that this message is directed towards are utterly blind to it.

Because, you know, it's just another cautionary tale against, like, self-destructive hubris.

You know, you've got, you know, this, you know, like, Frankenstein, you know, you could say, like, you know, the invisible man.

Like, he's a guy who goes crazy.

Maybe 71.

It's a Hammer film called Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde.

Now, this film was not the first Hammer film to deal with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

They actually came out with an earlier take on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

That's a good point.

I'm glad you brought that up because, yeah, the youth thing is there, but not the good looking part.

Let's shift now to Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, which, you know, like I said, it's only 10 years later.

And I guess Hammer just felt like, oh, let's just bring back the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde mythology.

one.

Was Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde the 70s? Yeah, that

was the 70s, very much so, yeah.

I mean, actually, the first one in 1970, the first Dracula in 1970 was Taste the Blood of Dracula, which I always really like.

I'll throw out the names of our actors.

Louis Fionder is our playing Tom, who genre fans may recognize from Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde and Dr.

Fives Rises Again.

And then Prunella Ransom plays Evelyn.

I've seen almost all of his films pretty much, so, uh, you know, Son of Frankenstein, things like that.

And as I've gotten older and explored different parts of myself and things like that, and feeling othered and just different things from growing up, um, as I was going through the Hammer films, um, one that really stuck out to me, I think I've talked about this with John, was, uh, Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde.

That one is one that definitely kinda caught my attention.

I was like, "Oh, what is this?" And I, I definitely grew a love for Ingrid Pitt, so you know, The Vampire Lovers, and, uh, Countess Dracula.

And you can drive your car, and you can live your life, and there's, you have to pay your bills, and you have to advance your career, and there's al- there's, there's so much pressure in real life.

And going into a genre that allows you to like- exhale, even as you're gasping, allows you to exhale into something that is not you, but touches something in you, maybe subconscious.

Like when, when Diane talked about Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, I'm like, "Oh, we've gotta talk about queer horror in Dark Shadows," 'cause that touched something subconsciously in me, that movie and many other movies.

So I guess, I guess I'm sort of...

Oh, perfect.

And we're watching one of my favorite queer spooky favorites, which is Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde.

Oh, cool.

Yeah.