Edge of Sanity (1989) from Arrow - June 21, 2022

[DR Herbert West]

Edge of Sanity Blu-ray

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 (The Face of Fu Manchu, Count Dracula) and directed with a hallucinogenic intensity by Gérard Kikoïne (Lady Libertine, Buried Alive), Edge of Sanity plunges the viewer into a labyrinth of depravity from which there is no escape.

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

Brand new 2K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative by Arrow Films

High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation

Original uncompressed stereo audio

Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

Brand new audio commentary by writer David Flint and author and filmmaker Sean Hogan

Over the Edge, a brand new interview with Stephen Thrower, author of Nightmare USA

Jack, Jekyll and Other Screen Psychos, a brand new interview with Dr Clare Smith, author of Jack the Ripper in Film and Culture

French Love, a career-spanning interview with director Gérard Kikoïne

Staying Sane, Gérard Kikoïne discusses Edge of Sanity

Original Theatrical trailer

Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys