Other Titles • Edge of Sanity • Split - Edge of Sanity (1989)
Synopses for Edge of Sanity (1989)
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Anthony Perkins gets a thorough workout in Edge of Sanity, and it looks as if the actor decided to have fun with his wild role. Good decision, because this movie crosses the edge of sanity right away and sails off the cliff. The concept has possibilities: what if Robert Louis Stevenson's fictional Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde were implicated in the crimes of Jack the Ripper? Perkins, of course, plays Jekyll as well as the demented "Jack" Hyde, whose nighttime perversions are unusually lurid, even for a serial-killer picture. The movie's utter sleaziness overwhelms whatever promise the original idea had, with no help from the low budget. We're left with the class of Perkins, who incorporates welcome bits of Norman Bates into his role(s). When his eyebrow begins arching and the nervous grin goes quivering, you know Perkins is in his element. --Robert Horton
(15 votes)
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The respected physician Henry Jekyll has been experimenting with cocaine which unleashes his alter ego, the uncontrollable Jack Hyde. Under the drug's powerful influence, Hyde has perverted nightmares and explodes in a killing spree.
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"A stylish, imaginative picture!" -Los Angeles Times
Anthony Perkins "is perfect" (L.A. Herald Examiner) as Dr. Henry Jekyll, a tormented man whose alter ego, Mr. Hyde, may also be Jack the Ripper!
(15 votes)
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