Bill Bixby, I did you wrong
Back when CBS’ The Incredible Hulk was on the air, I was in college and didn’t have convenient access to TV (my freshman dorm had one set, down in the …
Tag: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The secrets of Marvel Comics revealed — or so I thought
It was soooo damn cool 50 years ago when my brother received Origins of Marvel Comics for a Christmas present. How could it not be cool? Even though I was a …
Mr. Hyde was an innocent monster persecuted by torch-wielding mobs! Well, okay then.
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 …
Purge or Hide? Or … will we do both?
(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 …
Jekyll and Hyde as cocaine cowboys? Well it was the 1980s …
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 and Hyde
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 …
Everybody knows that! Everybody’s wrong
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). …