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Edge of Sanity

Beware the beast within!

5.4(67)19891h 31m2

When his experiments into a powerful new anesthetic go hideously awry, respected physician Dr. Jekyll transforms into the hideous Jack Hyde. As his wife Elisabeth passes her time in charitable work, rehabilitating the district's fallen women, Hyde is drawn into an escalating cycle of lust and murder that seems to know no bounds.

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Status
Released
Budget
—
Box office
$102K
Language
English
  • prostitute
  • cocaine
  • investigation
  • jack the ripper
  • murder of prostitute
  • victorian england
  • murder
  • mad doctor
  • doctor
  • drugs
  • jekyll and hyde

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Produced in

France, Hungary, United Kingdom, United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalR14 Apr 1989
  • GermanyDE

    • Physical181 Nov 1991

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Edge of Sanity was released on 14 April 1989.

Audience reviews

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  • W

    Wuchak

    10/17/2022

    6/10

    **_Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde meets Jack the Ripper with Anthony Perkins_** In London, 1888, Dr. Jekyll accidently discovers a form of smoking crack in the Victorian Era and thus his bestial alter ego, Mr. Hyde, goes on murderous excursions in the dead of night with oversexed prostitutes being his preferred prey. Glynis Barber is on hand as his beautiful, trusting wife, Elisabeth. "Edge of Sanity” (1989) is like…

  • K

    kevin2019

    10/17/2025

    6/10

    "Edge of Sanity" often features scenes of sordid debauchery - Jekyll's amoral sexual attitudes stem from his childhood experiences, according to this film - which frequently run the risk of going too far in a film that quite frankly uses the extraordinarily imaginative and highly influencial central idea from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel as nothing more than a loosely presented excuse for all the sexual shenanigans…

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