Product Description

What if we lose control of who we are? In this terrifying, contemporary new version of Robert Louis Stevenson's renowned tale of good and evil, two medical students, Jay and Mary, take their desire to be different to a frightening new level. They begin experimenting with a strange drug similar to ecstasy, and their personalities quickly start to unravel in ways they can't control. Even though tragedy unexpectedly strikes, Jay keeps altering the drug, unaware of how it is taking over every aspect of his life and the essence of who he is. His terrifying descent is chronicled in bizarre video diaries that ultimately reveal to everyone the maddening game they dared to play.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27768 in DVD
• Brand: Lions Gate
• Released on: 2006-11-07
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 90 minutes

Customer Reviews

Jekyll and Hyde go to med school!
Yeah, that's right, I'm the first one to review the movie! HAH! Anywho. The movie's not bad. It's not great either. The movie is a modern interpretation of the Stevenson novel. It takes place with a bunch of med students (Dr. Jekyll is known as "J"). Jekyll tries to alter personalities by manfucturing a drug derived from extacy. The side effects result in Hyde, Jekyll's alternate personality. There's no impressive transformation, which is a let down, but oh well. Hyde is simply a crazy, drug taking, sexually hungry, violent part of Jekyll. You sometimes even get confused about which personality is present. A notable little piece of info that I found amusing was the use of characters' names from the novel in the movie.

Obviously, the movie wasn't released in theaters, but it's not bad, despite that reason. There's no need for briliant special effects, and the work is good. It doesn't look like a cheap amatuer movie like a lot of straight to DVD movies do. It is well acted and the few effects it does contain are well done.

If you are a fan of the original novel or of the numerous adaptations that it spawned, this is one to check out. And maybe, if you're a fan of Requiem For a Dream (though I'm not), you might enjoy this film. Otherwise, there's not much there for ya.

Another Jekyll and Hyde plot ruined!!
OK I saw a preview of this movie on a DVD and I thought, SEX, DRUGS, and MURDER !! Well ALLRIGHT!! BUT NO ! This movie is a PG 13 movie trying to pull off a R rating. There is drugs, a lot of super brainiac med students getting wasted on drugs only they can get of course. Our medical future is not looking too good according to this movie ! There is sex, two good and wild sex scenes and a lame sex scene which was supposed to be a climax, that just sucked bad, the actress even kept her top on, what type of sell was that. NEVER USE ACTRESSES WITH THAT NO NUDITY CLAUSE, PLEASE!! The murder, well you have to use your imagination the acts were never really shown, they were more like pyschotic blackouts and flashes, one minute they're standing the next minute they're bloody and crying. This is a medicore suspense thriller, with mid 20 something teen actors. That night vision stuff in the end of the movie didn't help either. It should have been more graphic and of course more nudity, jekyll and hyde is a great plot. A doctor with a split personality, that knows exactly how to kill you and dispose of the evidence. Just another bad adaptation.