Suzy Eddie Izzard

Scott Chambers

Lindsay Duncan

Robyn Cara

Jonathan Hyde

Morgan Watkins

Simon Callow

Tony Jayawardena

Isabella Inchbald

Jamie Anderson

Patrick Fischer

Piers Hunt

Richard Kondal

Natalie O'Connor

Billie Craven

Darcy Farrant

Liam Coutts

Joe Stephenson

Dan Kelly-Mulhern

Guy de Beaujeu

Christian Angermayer

Robert Louis Stevenson

Blair Mowat

Birgit Dierken

Andrew Keats

Horror

Doctor Jekyll

B Good Picture Company

Fluidity Films

Hammer Studios Ltd.

Hammer Film Productions

Fulwell 73 Productions

SoundNode

United Kingdom

CinemaSerf

I can't be the only one who thinks that Scott Chambers bears an uncanny resemblance to Barry Keoghan? Anyway, after a career in petty theft and drugs - and with a seriously ill daughter - "Rob" (Chambers) finds himself in front of the rather imperious "Sandra" (Lindsay Duncan) and her boss "Nina" (Eddie Izzard). The latter is looking for some help around her huge stately home and for some reason she takes a bit of a shine to the young man. After a shaky start, the two start to become friends and he is promised the funds to see his daughter "Ari" gets the treatment she needs. Snag? Well "Rob" has to help her out with a rather monstrous request. Has he got what it takes? The first twenty minutes of this are actually quite good - Duncan is fine as the over-bearing assistant and there's a bit of chemistry between Izzard and her new-found friend. Quickly though, there emerge a few silly sub-plots and, indeed, plot holes before an ending that I felt really quite disappointing. To be fair, Dan Kelly-Mulhern has tried to do something a bit different with this Stevenson story - never an easy thing when it's already been pretty much done to death - but this just runs out of steam by the half way mark and thereafter is all a bit daft. It's an OK watch for ninety minutes, but you won't recall it a week afterwards and there's really nothing remotely scary to worry about either.