{"id":16964,"date":"2024-11-01T20:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T00:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16964"},"modified":"2024-11-01T14:34:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T18:34:16","slug":"the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-miss-osbourne-1981-walerian-borowczyk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16964","title":{"rendered":"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne (1981, Walerian Borowczyk)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Walerian: I’m making a fancy-dress period-drama based on classic literature.
\nSerious Actors: sign us up!
\nWalerian: the plot is fourteen people in a large house get fucked to death by a beast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some actors’ dialogue is in sync on the French soundtrack, Patrick Magee’s in sync on the English, and Udo Kier is never in sync, so there’s no correct way to watch this. I chose English, excited to see the Prisoner<\/a><\/em> guy, until I realized that Patricks Magee and McGoohan are different people. Of course Magee is the tormentee-turned-tormentor of A Clockwork Orange<\/em>, so still pretty cool. Let’s avoid the Waxwork<\/em> movies this year, we don’t need Patrick Macnee getting mixed up in this.<\/p>\n

ARE Magee and McGoohan different people? Does the editor know?<\/em>
\n<\/p>\n

I feel I’ve formed a satisfying triangle this SHOCKtober between Udo Kier starring in this beast-with-killer-penis movie, Udo Kier starring in Flesh for Frankenstein<\/a><\/em>, and all the dick jokes in Young Frankenstein<\/a><\/em>. Dr. Udo Jekyll has a nice transformation scene in the bathtub, but there are no cool makeup effects – Hyde is just a different actor. He stalks his party guests while they panic (General Magee shoots the coachman then dejectedly confesses), belatedly getting around to killing the General and his daughter, then Udo’s girl Fanny (a Walerian regular, unfortunately for her) becomes Hyded as well and kills her mom. I appreciate that Paul Duane enjoys<\/a> Borow movies – Rosenbaum says diversity of opinion is healthy for the culture – but to me they are stupid and bad.<\/p>\n

Fanny Osbourne will have her revenge on Seattle:<\/em>
\n<\/p>\n

Hyde shoots some arrows into the General, his daughter doesn’t seem concerned:<\/em>
\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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