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For more than a
century, the tale of Jekyll and Hyde has captivated the world imagination. In
this chilling and diabolically clever reinvention, evil lives again. Dr. Henry
Jekyll (Dougray Scott, Desperate Housewives), is a well-regarded physician whose
evenings are spent researching a rare and sacred Amazonian flower so potent it’s
said to literally separate the soul, giving life to man’s Dark Self. The
obsessive experiments to isolate its psychotropic properties happen to coincide
with a series of brutal murders gripping the city with fear. Jekyll knows it’s
no coincidence. While his nights are lost to him, he awakens with bloody
mementos and violent memories of the screams of his victims. He knows the Dark
Self is coming into his own. It’s even given himself a name: Mr. Edward Hyde.
Anxious to plead guilty, waive trial, face sentence, and be put out of his
misery, where he can no longer do harm, Jekyll solicits the help of Claire
Wheaton (Krista Bridges, Land of the Dead), a compassionate attorney attracted
to unusual and lost causes. Agreeing to represent Jekyll, her case for extreme
mental imbalance is convincing. Confined to an asylum, Jekyll realizes that he
has lost control, that Hyde now emerges in both body and soul on a horrifying
whim, and slaughters with equal abandon. Hyde also knows that Claire is looking
to suppress him. What Hyde doesn’t like, he kills. And while Jekyll is safely
locked away, Hyde isn’t. Co-starring Emmy winner Tom Skerritt (Picket Fences),
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Gothic classic is now ingeniously retold to terrify
audiences anew
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