Directed by:
Gérard KikoïneCinematography:
Tony SpratlingComposer:
Frédéric TalgornCast:
Anthony Perkins, Glynis Barber, Ben Cole, Briony McRoberts, Noel Coleman, Harry Landis, Cathy Murphy, Jill Melford, Basil Hoskins, Ray Jewers, Claudia Udy (more)Plots(1)
Anthony Perkins builds upon his legendary status as cinema’s seminal psycho in Edge of Sanity, a delirious conflation of Robert Louis Stephenson’s classic horror novella ‘Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ and Jack the Ripper’s real-life reign of terror over Victorian London. When his experiments into a powerful new anaesthetic go hideously awry, respected physician Dr Jekyll (Perkins) takes off into the night, casting aside the shackles of upper-class propriety as he disappears into the shadowy decadent demimonde of Whitechapel in pursuit of sensual pleasures under the guise of ‘Mr Hyde’. As his wife Elisabeth (Glynis Barber) 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. Produced by exploitation maestro Harry Alan Towers and directed with a hallucinogenic intensity by Gérard Kikoïne, Edge of Sanity plunges the viewer into a labyrinth of depravity from which there is no escape. (Arrow Films)
(more)Cast
Anthony Perkins
USA
Best movies:
Psycho (1960)
Le Glaive et la balance (1963)
Goodbye Again (1961)
Glynis Barber
South Africa
Best movies:
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983) (TV movie)
Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1992) (TV movie)
Murphy's Law: Kiss and Tell (2003) (TV movie)
Ben Cole
Best movies:
Sense8 (2015) (series)
Saving Grace (2000)
Edge of Sanity (1989)
Briony McRoberts
UK
Best movies:
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Taggart (1983) (series)
Edge of Sanity (1989)
Noel Coleman
UK
Best movies:
Under Suspicion (1991)
Edge of Sanity (1989)
Kim (1984) (TV movie)
Harry Landis
UK
Best movies:
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
The Longest Day (1962)
Billy Liar (1963)
Cathy Murphy
UK
Best movies:
Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) (series)
Memphis Belle (1990)
About a Boy (2002)
Jill Melford
UK
Best movies:
A Stitch in Time (1963)
Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1984) (series)
Basil Hoskins
UK
Best movies:
Ice-Cold in Alex (1958)
Cold Comfort Farm (1995) (TV movie)
North West Frontier (1959)
Ray Jewers
Best movies:
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Scum (1979)
Claudia Udy
USA
Best movies:
Edge of Sanity (1989)
American Nightmare (1983)
Savage Dawn (1985)
Sarah Maur Thorp
Best movies:
Edge of Sanity (1989)
Ten Little Indians (1989)
River of Death (1989)