Too much of everything

good back-story, and good acting

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Dr. Jekyll (Ralph Bates) is a scientist researching the cure of many diseases. He is a very reserved and shy man, and spends most of his time working on his laboratory. One day, his friend Professor Robertson (Gerald Sim) visits him and advises that he would probably die before the conclusion of his studies. Dr. Jekyll decides to research an elixir of life, based on feminine hormones, to extend his life and consequently end his work. He uses female corpses to get the hormones. The effect of the elixir releases his '"feminine repressed side" and he becomes an aggressive and beautiful woman, Ms. Hyde (Martine Beswick). When the bodies finish in the city morgue, Dr. Jekyll starts killing women to proceed with his research."Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde" is another charming movie by Hammer and a great entertainment. The theatrical style uses few locations and the gore and killing are not graphic. Fans of Hammer Film Productions will certainly enjoy this different version of the classic story Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "O Médico & Irmã Monstro" ("The Doctor and Sister Monster")

Hammer Films Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde unashamedly pinches elements from the real-life stories of the most famous serial-killer of all Jack The Ripper as well as the grave-robbers Burke & Hare, who later turned to murder & then selling the bodies to unscrupulous doctors for medical research. On top of all this it is also, obviously, based on Robert Louis Stevenson's book The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. Handsome Ralph Bates plays Dr. Jekyll, his alter ego Sister Hyde by the beautiful & seductive-looking Martine Beswick. Like many of Hammer's best movies it has superb production standards with real style & panache. Ralph Bates was an excellent actor & any excuse to ogle the ravishing Martine Beswick in various states of undress is fine by me. An entertaining mishmash of a movie!.

Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde is directed by Roy Ward Baker and written by Brian Clemens. It stars Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick, Gerald Sim, Lewis Fiander, Susan Brodrick and Dorothy Alison. Music is by David Whitaker and cinematography by Norman Warwick.Dr. Henry Shekel (Bates) is working on an elixir that he hopes will be the answer to longevity of life. The answer he believes is to be found in female hormones taken from cadavers sent his way by Burke and Hare. Unfortunately, when the doctor resorts to trying the potion himself, he is transformed into a ravishing but dangerous woman. With London in the grip of Jack the Ripper's reign of terror, could it be that Jekyll and Sister Hyde are linked to the Jolly jack killings?Burke by name, Berk by nature!It's an awful title, it really is, I know for a fact people have avoided the film purely because they thought it sounded like some lame British horror parody piece. Which is a shame because it's a devilishly fun picture that breathes new life into a formula that has never been short of on screen treatments. Not only does Clemens' intelligent screenplay have the transformed "creature" be a smouldering sex bomb in the shapely form of Martine Beswick, he also reshapes horrible history by having Jack the Ripper and Burke and Hare tied into the plotting. Hell there's even a nifty aside to Sweeney Todd in there as well.Murder, horrible grizzly murder!Baker directs with some style, never letting the picture drift aimlessly, while he along with Norman Warwick and the set designers create a classic Gaslight Gothic look, the perfect backdrop to such devious doings and berserker gender bending. The transformation sequences are deftly handled, the duality of beings and mirrors a narrative strength, while the film isn't afraid to add humour over the top of the gruesome Technicolor murders. In fact sometimes the in jokes are so subtle it's not hard to see why many film observers of the time didn't get the joke when it was released, the crafty wink-winkery to the audience wasted on the unaware.With Bates and Beswick leading from the front with strong and assured performances, and looking credible as brother and sister into the bargain, the film is never less than enjoyable. It overcomes the gimmick idea to play out a story that stands unique in its freshness. Oh for sure there's some weaknesses in the production, but really this is a Hammer film that deserves its cult fan base because it repays the good will consistently on repeat viewings. 8/10

Dr. Jekyll(Alan Bates)really wishes to cure the ills of mankind, but faces a moral dilemma..he needs to live eternally so the act of death will not stand in the way of experimental progress for curing diseases. He finds that the female hormones is his answer for eternal life, but there's a catch..when one ingests the formula, they turn female! He finds this out the hard way. After ingesting some of his formula, he finds that a female emerges in his body and she(played by the sexually dynamic Martine Beswick..as far as I was concerned, Jekyll could've remained buried underneath her a lot longer!)doesn't wish to leave. Talk about identity crisis! It doesn't stop there! This particular film explains who Jack the Ripper, The White Chapel killer really was..Dr. Jekyll! Yes, the film has Jekyll murdering the prostitutes extracting their vital female organs for his experiments! Lots of blood splatter in this Hammer tale. The film doesn't even stop there! Before going gonzo slaying whores on London fog-shrouded streets, he depended on grave-robbers(..and murderers)Burke and Haire to supply him fresh female victims so that he could remove what he needed for experiments! This film is macabre at it's very core and director Roy Ward Baker brings an uncanny atmosphere, style, and wicked satire..when a man faces the opposite sex within opposing, who ultimately wins in the end? Jekyll? Hyde? Is the male stronger or the female? Which gender ultimately wins that tug of war over mind, body & soul? Great movie..not only is it highly entertaining and a visual feast for the eyes thanks to Baker's impressive work, but intelligent and inventive. A triumph for Hammer studios. What great casting! Bates and Beswick's resemblances are unbelievable! I did forget to point out a very interesting story that plays out well..Jekyll is in love with an upstairs neighbor, Susan(Susan Broderick, quite charming and lovely..a direct opposite of Beswick who is aggressive, fetching, and sexually overpowering)and Hyde is in love with Susan's brother Howard(Lewis Fiander)! Now that certainly complicates things! The violent attacks on White Chapel drunken tramps are not blatant..Baker shoots them in a way that is effective but not overly gory. A terrific score from David Whitaker, at times quite sinister, and when Beswick appears, enchanting.The transformation sequences are rather imaginatively handled as well. Only on a few occasions does Baker resort to camera dissolves. An interesting turn in the film has a friend of Jekyll's, Professor Robertson(Gerald Sim), with a weakness for women and cheap sex, who suspects his friend for being the Ripper, only to be seduced by Hyde!