House of Fright

1961

1h 28m

Horror

Sci-Fi

List

83%

6 Reviews

Tomatometer

49%

250+ Ratings

Audience Score

Londres, 1874. Dans son laboratoire, le docteur Henry Jekyll, fasciné par la dualité de l'âme humaine, met au point une drogue destinée à séparer le Bien du Mal. Une nuit, il décide de tester le produit sur sa propre personne. Il se transforme aussitôt en Mister Hyde, un être ignoble et malfaisant...

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Rich people problems.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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A dry but interesting take on the old tale, where the Hyde alter ego is the cleaned up charming version, albeit with a complete lack of morality. There's not much horror on display though, it plays out more like an infidelity fable.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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This is a very well done Hammer flick. Massie is impressive in switching between Jekyll and Hyde. The twist, that Hyde is the good looking, clean cut one, is an interesting switch that plays out nicely.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/31/23

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WOW.....WOW....SUCH AN ENJOYABLE CLASSICS HORROR MOVIE 2 WATCH WITH SUCH A FANTASTIC CAST THROUGHOUT THIS MOVIE IT IS SUCH A FANTASTIC CLASSICS HORROR MOVIE 2 WATCH WITH SUCH A BRILLIANT CAST THROUGHOUT THIS MOVIE......WARNING THIS MOVIE CONTAINS STROBE LIGHTNING EFFECTS THROUGHOUT SOME SCENES THROUGHOUT THIS MOVIE.......

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Fair reworking of the famous horror story. The horror is a little thin but the performances and the inner turmoil scenes make up for this.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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Always a boring story, and this version doesn't do much to make it exciting.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Terence Fisher

Director

Paul Massie

Dr. Henry Jekyll

Dawn Addams

Kitty Jekyll

Christopher Lee

Paul Allen

David Kossoff

Dr. Ernst Litauer

Francis De Wolff

Inspector

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Tim Brayton

Alternate Ending

One of the top-shelf Hammer horror films, and probably the most perpetually undervalued.

Rated: 4/5

Nov 19, 2018

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Isabel Quigly

The Spectator

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll is as silly and nasty a piece as Hammer and Terence Fisher have turned out which is saying something.

Jul 12, 2018

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John Beifuss

Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Jekyll's tragedy in this unique Stevenson revamp is that he doesn't understand that much of humanity already lives a Jekyll-and-Hyde existence -- including his unfaithful bride, who is a 'perfect wife' by day and a 'perfect mistress' by night.

Rated: 3.5/4

Feb 17, 2011

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

Terence Fisher's version of the Stevenson story is actually British bedroom farce, so dry and subtle that reviewers could only complain about the 'lack of horror'

Sep 25, 2009

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

The movie pretty much follows the original story, without using its new twist in any interesting ways.

Oct 16, 2008

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Rated: 3/5

Aug 14, 2005

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Synopsis

Londres, 1874. Dans son laboratoire, le docteur Henry Jekyll, fasciné par la dualité de l'âme humaine, met au point une drogue destinée à séparer le Bien du Mal. Une nuit, il décide de tester le produit sur sa propre personne. Il se transforme aussitôt en Mister Hyde, un être ignoble et malfaisant...

Director: Terence Fisher
Screenwriter: Wolf Mankowitz
Production Co: Hammer Films
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English (United Kingdom)
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 18, 2018
Runtime: 1h 28m