Hooptober X: The Devil Made Me Do It
#22: 1 LGBTQ+ connected film
Peacock

I love that DR. JEKYLL AND SISTER HYDE combines the stories of Jekyll & Hyde, Jack the Ripper and Burke & Hare. Not only that, but it's an allegory for the trans experience that's way before it's time. That's some fantastic multitasking. And even though the Whitechapel murders and Burke & Hare murders happened in different time periods, it all works pretty well together.

I was very impressed by Ralph Bates and Martine Beswick -- while we never see them both at the same time, they're still able to play off one another very well. This could've been a much more lurid and exploitative film but they handled it with some nuance -- as much as you'd expect in a film about a serial killing mad scientist. Beswick's performance when she realizes she's a woman is really something.

This was the first Hammer film I saw that actually showed naked breasts and ass, and somehow it was still rated PG. Not complaining, just surprised. I guess it was the 70s.