"Nach der Kündigung bei dem Geheimlabor, in dem Dr. Angelo in einer Versuchsreihe Schimpansen mit Drogen und dem Vorgaukeln virtueller Realitäten zu aggressiven Kampfmaschinen manipulierte, will der Doktor seine Versuche fortan friedlich für den geistig minderbemittelten Gärtner Jobe nutzen. Der lernt tatsächlich mit rasender Geschwindigkeit. Doch Mitarbeiter von Cybertech tauschen die Drogen aus: Jobe wird mit zunehmender Intelligenz im ..."
"Anthony Perkins gets a thorough workout in Edge of Sanity, and it looks as if the actor decided to have fun with his wild role. Good decision, because this movie crosses the edge of sanity right away and sails off the cliff. The concept has possibilities: what if Robert Louis Stevenson's fictional Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde were implicated in the crimes of Jack the Ripper? Perkins, of course, plays Jekyll as well as the demented "Jack" Hyd ..."
"The Pirates of Penzance would seem to be one of the most indestructible of theatrical works, with its seamless parody and melodic brilliance. No material is surefire, however. In this lackluster version, the pleasures are sporadic at best. The production, originally shown on the BBC, is a nondaring affair that avoids any modern sensibility or satiric edge. Mabel's song "Poor Wand'ring One," a swipe at the trilling idiocies of opera ..."
"Was author Whitley Strieber telling the truth about extraterrestrial visitations in his bestselling book, Communion? Perhaps no one can really prove or disprove it, making the enigma of Strieber himself more interesting than his allegations. That's precisely the angle taken by this film adaptation, in which Christopher Walken's richly eccentric performance becomes a fascinating portrait of something more important than rumors of ..."
"A number of vicious slayings that look suspiciously like the work of a werewolf start taking place in a small California town after a motorcycle-riding stranger arrives."
"When Henry Jekyll's experiments with cocaine have gotten out of control, he transforms into the hideous Jack Hyde. As Hyde he searches the London streets at night for his prey in whorehouses and opium dens. The police can't catch him, he has nothing to lose but his mind..."