In 1971, director Roy Ward Baker adapted Robert Louis Stevenson's legendary 1886 novella "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde," with a gender subversion twist, giving the world the queer horror classic, "Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde." The film follows the titular Dr. Jekyll as he looks to create an elixir of everlasting life, extracting the female hormones from fresh corpses as women tend to live longer than men. The film has since been considered one of the best examples of coding transgender euphoria in horror, and now, Eddie Izzard has been cast as Dr. Nina Jekyll in the...
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- 2/8/2022
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
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