See Eddie Izzard In Teaser For DOCTOR JEKYLL – Debuts At FrightFest August 25

By Michelle McCue | August 8, 2023

Check out the brand new teaser for DOCTOR JEKYLL, directed by Joe Stephenson.

The film will have its’ World Premiere at FrightFest on Friday, August 25 and stars Eddie Izzard, Scott Chambers, Lindsay Duncan and Simon Callow. The film’s score is from Blair Mowat.

An isolated mansion, a mysterious locked room, creepy corridors, a dusty cellar and a mad doctor…Hammer horror is back with a modern reimagining of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’.

When ex-convict Rob takes the carer position to the infamous Nina Jekyll, little does he know he’s part of an evil master plan devised by her alter ego Rachel Hyde. But to what lengths will Rob go to satisfy his client’s weird wishes and his own ambitions for the daughter he has never even seen? 

Some of Izzard’s best roles have been in 2020’s SIX MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT (review), 2017 VICTORIA & ABDUL (review), 2008’s VALKYRIE (streaming on MAX), 2009’s RAGE from director Sally Potter, 2001’s THE CAT’S MEOW (streaming on Prime), and the superhero film MYSTERY MEN (streaming on Peacock).