Walerian Borowczyk's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne is a strange, one-of-a-kind take on the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tale that is a bizzarre collage of sex, violence and beautiufl imagery. The story is centered around Dr. Jekyll and Miss Fanny Osbourne's engagement party, which sees the couple invite over numerous prestigous members of bourgeois respectibility. Being a Walerian Borowczyk film, this version of Mr. Hyde is an ultra-agressive, sexual predator, whose violent passion and carnal desire leaves his victims deceased. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne identity crisis is one between intellectualsim and primal urges/sexual appetite, with the burgeouise intellectual identity being juxtaposed against Mr. Hyde's seuxal deviancy to great effect. Beautifully photographed in a spacious Victorian? house, Borowczyk uses the home to great effect, lighting the scenes of philosophical banter in bright spaces, with Mr. Hyde lurking in the dark hallways and dimly lit rooms of the spacious home. For those not familiar with his work, Borowczyk's films are nearly all sexually charged in their raw and surreal depicions of sexual urges and carnal desires of humanity. What makes The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne unique is how Fanny Osbourne's transformation represents her giving into her sexual appetitite, joining Mr. Hyde in malevolent sexual depravity with glee. A horror film of sorts, Borowczyk's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne is a solitary take on the old tale.
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