Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype (1980)
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Directors
Charles B. Griffith
Cast
Oliver Reed, Sunny Johnson, Maia Danzinger, Mel Welles, Virgil Frye, Kedrick Wolf, Denise Hayes, Jack Warford, Jackie Coogan, Sharon Compton
The story
The film is a reversal of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story, about a malformed doctor who drinks a potion and becomes a handsome (and violent) ladies' man.
Genres
Komödie, Monster Film, Parodie
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