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The Jekyll and Hyde Portfolio
USA 1971
produced by Eric Jeffrey Haims for Xerxes Productions
directed by Eric Jeffrey Haims
starring Sebastian Brook, Mady Maguire, Donn Greer, Gray Daniels, John Terry, Rene Bond, Casey Larrain, Terri Bond, Hump Hardy, Nora Wieternik, Cathie Demille, Ric Lutze, Melissa Ruiz, Duane Paulsen (as Duane Grace), Jane Tsentas, Terri Johnson, Lexy Morrell, Nancy Martin (as Nancy Ayers), Sandy Carey, Eve Standish, Philip Lionel, Jill Sweete
story by Bonnie Jean, screenplay by Donn Greer
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Dr Cabala's (Sebastian Brook) school for nurses seems to be constructed
according to a grindhouse cookbook: The young nurses are not allowed to
wear any underwear beneath their outfit, the head nurse (Casey Larrain) is
a lesbian who loves nothing more than to "massage" young nurses
(and most of the girls are horny as fuck anyways), there's a barn on the
grounds that's in constant use for you know what - but there's also a
hunchbacked caretaker who's also a cannibal, it seems everybody in the
institute's schizophrenic ... oh, and there's a psycho serialkiller on
site who carves the letter "V" into his victims bodies. For the
longest time, Detective Kincaid (Donn Greer) and Sgt Wolf (Gray Daniels)
investigate without finding any clue, then they figure it must be one of
the teachers, Dr Carter (John Terry), much to the dismay of his girlfriend
and colleague Dr Boges (Mady Maguire), and ultimately the two policemen
try to hunt him down, when Dr Boges is attacked by the actual killer, who
she thinks to be Dr Cabala - but somehow Dr Carter has gotten away from
his pursuers just in time to chase the killer away and right into the
gunfire of the cops - and the killer turns out to be one of the students,
June (Rene Bond), who Dr Carter actually had an affair with ... Some
atmospheric shots notwithstanding, The Jekyll and Hyde Portfolio is
first and foremost a mess: Somehow it tries to find its way between (mild)
sexploitation and gruesomeness (including a few actual vivisections of
frogs), but fails because the story constantly veers off into one
direction or the other and the whole film is too full of scenes that don't
help the plot along (or even make sense) in the slightest. And add to that
bland characters portrayed in a mostly wooden manner reciting stupid
dialogue, and a bunch of simple effects (some double exposure effects with
the actors grimacing in one shot are simply hilarious), and you're left
with ... well, to put it this way, a bad movie aficionado like myself
needs to have seen this movie, but it doesn't rank high on the
so-bad-it's-good charts all the same.
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