After sitting through “Valerie on the Stairs” a second time, I watched this in the hope that if Tony Todd played the title character that perhaps the only black guy with a significant role in the picture would get to spend at least half the time playing the good guy. Um, nope. This Jekyll spends most of his time as Hyde, and even when he is his human half he’s constantly on the verge of a rage-inspired shift. Most of the movie is a painful parade of badly-assembled violence capped off by Todd’s transformation into a were-chimp with all the cringe-inducing racism that implies. Honestly, if that had happened a little earlier in the picture, I probably would have just turned it off. In addition to being the crummiest thing ever done to Robert Louis Stevenson, this also sports the most ear-straining musical number ever included in a horror movie. Wish I'd skipped it
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