Director Stephen Weeks was one of two young British film-makers to emerge in the horror field in the late Sixties (the other, Michael Reeves, died at 25). This was Weeks' second film - at the age of 22 - and it turns out to be a very intelligent and largely faithful re-working of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Christopher Lee gives a skilful performance in one (or should it be two? ) of the best parts that the cinema of terror has offered him in a 45-year career. His acting and the director's very authentic-seeming Victorian settings, full of amusingly bizarre bric-a-brac, are both much in contrast to the lurid approach taken by most latter-day film-makers to Stevenson's famous double-identity chiller.


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