Movies don’t always start with a brilliant idea. AIP, the legendary maker of low-budget drive-in movies, would often come up with a publicity campaign, then make the movie if theater …
(another rewritten post from my own blog). My book on Jekyll and Hyde adaptations is now with the publisher. It has a title, Watching Jekyll and Hyde, with a …
It’s not surprising the 1980s would give us not one but two movies showing Dr. Jekyll’s secret for becoming Mr. Hyde was cocaine. Cocaine was dazzlingly hip in the 1980s. …
Hammer Studios’ Dracula and Frankenstein series are justifiably famous. Their three Jekyll and Hyde films? Not so much. This is partly because rather than a series, they’re three separate movies …
Earlier this summer I signed a contract with McFarland for my sixth film-reference book, Jekyll and Hyde on Screen (the title’s a placeholder until I think of a better one). …
Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Veronica Lake, Jane Russell, John Wayne, Jack Nicholson, William Holden … it’s an acting smorgasbord!
