This weeks vintage Saturday morning horror was the 1920 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Amazing. Get through the first 25 interminable minutes of drawing room chatter and you are treated to a succession of the best scenes silent horror had to offer (Chaney's phantom and Schreck's Nosferatu notwithstanding). Hyde prowling around an opium den surrounded by actual leprosy victims, the hat removing pointy head reveal, the giant spider, the childs unsentimental battering courtesy of Hydes cane, the mind boggling John Barrymore transformation scenes. Truly one of the horror greats and supplied with a weird, chintzy end of the pier organ score on my cheapo Dark Vision DVD!
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