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Abbott and Costello Meet Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1953)

3 December 199911 February 2020

Rating: ★★

Two Idiots Meet Dr Jekyll

Director: Charles Lamont
Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff, Craig Stevens, …
Category: Horror

The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box (2014)

24 February 201423 April 2020

Rating: ★★

Victorian Young Adult Adventure

Director: Jonathan Newman
Actors: Michael Sheen, Sam Neill, Aneurin Barnard, Mella Carron, …
Category: Fantasy

The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972)

11 May 19996 August 2019

Rating: ★★★

Children’s Ghost Story/Time Travel

Director: Lionel Jeffries
Actors: Lynne Frederick, Diana Dors, Lawrence Naismith, Rosalyn Landor, …
Category: Fantasy

Around the World in 80 Days (2004)

21 August 201428 November 2020

Rating: ★

Jules Verne Comedy Adaptation

Director: Frank Coraci
Actors: Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Cecile De France, Jim Broadbent, …
Category: Science Fiction

Batman: Gotham By Gaslight (2018)

11 February 201815 May 2020

Rating: ★★★

Animation/Victorian Era Batman

Director: Sam Liu
Actors: Bruce Greenwood, Jennifer Carpenter, Scott Patterson, Anthony Head, …
Category: Fantasy

The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire (2002)

2 April 200624 March 2020

Rating: ★

Sherlock Holmes Mystery

Director: Rodney Gibbons
Actors: Matt Frewer, Kenneth Welsh, Neville Edwards, Michel Perron, …
Category: Horror

A Christmas Carol (2019)

25 December 20203 January 2021

Rating: ★★★½

Miser’s Redemption/Dark Adult Retelling

Director: Nick Murphy
Actors: Guy Pearce, Andy Serkis, Stephen Graham, Joe Alwyn, …
Category: Fantasy

The Creeping Flesh (1973)

9 December 200122 May 2020

Rating: ★★★

Evil Prehistoric Skeleton

Director: Freddie Francis
Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Lorna Helbron, Kenneth J. Warren
Category: Horror

Crimson Peak (2015)

31 October 201523 May 2020

Rating: ★★½

Ghost Story

Director: Guillermo Del Toro
Actors: Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain, Charlie Hunnam, …
Category: Horror

Dolittle (2020)

29 February 202023 April 2020

Rating: ★★★

Doctor That Can Speak to Animals

Director: Stephen Gaghan
Actors: Robert Downey Jr, Harry Collett, Carmel Laniado, Michael Sheen, …
Category: Fantasy

Dorian Gray (2009)

28 January 201127 August 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Eternally Youthful Libertine

Director: Oliver Parker
Actors: Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Ben Chaplin, Fiona Shaw, …
Category: Horror

Dr Jekyll and His Women (1981)

18 December 201218 August 2020

Rating: ★★★

Erotic Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Adaptation

Director: Walerian Borowczyk
Actors: Udo Kier, Patrick Magee, Marina Pierro, Gerald Zalcberg, …
Category: Horror

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)

13 February 200914 May 2020

Rating: ★★★

Evil Personality Within Unleashed

Director: John S. Robertson
Actors: John Barrymore, Brandon Hurst, Charles Lane, George Stevens
Category: Horror

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

18 July 200114 May 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Evil Personality Within Unleashed

Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Actors: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Halliwell Hobbes, …
Category: Horror

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1941)

9 May 200118 August 2020

Rating: ★★

Evil Personality Within Unleashed

Director: Victor Fleming
Actors: Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner, Donald Crisp, …
Category: Horror

Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (2002)

24 June 200718 August 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Evil Personality Within Unleashed

Director: Maurice Phillips
Actors: John Hannah, David Warner, Gerard Horan, Elodie Kendall, …
Category: Horror

Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971)

28 May 200013 July 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Dr Jekyll Becomes a Woman/Hammer Film

Director: Roy Ward Baker
Actors: Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick, Gerald Sim, Lewis Fiander, …
Category: Horror

Dracula (1958)

1 February 200116 July 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Hammer Dracula Adaptation

Director: Terence Fisher
Actors: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Michael Gough, John Van Eyssen, …
Category: Horror

Dracula (1974)

30 January 200129 December 2019

Rating: ★★

Dracula Adaptation

Director: Dan Curtis
Actors: Jack Palance, Nigel Davenport, Simon Ward, Fiona Lewis
Category: Horror

Dracula (1979)

27 May 200231 August 2020

Rating: ★★½

Dracula Adaptation

Director: John Badham
Actors: Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Kate Nelligan, Donald Pleasence, …
Category: Horror

Dracula (2006)

19 May 200731 August 2020

Rating: ★★

Dracula Adaptation

Director: Bill Eagles
Actors: Marc Warren, Sophia Myles, Dan Stevens, Stephanie Leonidas, …
Category: Horror

Dracula (2020)

18 January 202010 July 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Dracula Adaptation

Director: Johnny Campbell, Damon Thomas, Paul McGuigan
Actors: Claes Bang, Dolly Wells, Lydia West, Jonathan Aris, …
Category: Horror

Edge of Sanity (1989)

8 August 199930 September 2020

Rating: 0­

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Adaptation

Director: Gerard Kikoine
Actors: Anthony Perkins, Glynis Barber, Sarah Maur-Thorp
Category: Horror

Eliza Graves (2014)

22 November 201512 March 2020

Rating: ★★★

Victorian Asylum Taken Over by the Inmates

Director: Brad Anderson
Actors: Jim Sturgess, Ben Kingsley, Kate Beckinsale, David Thewlis, …
Category: Horror

The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1958)

20 September 201228 August 2020

Rating: ★★★★½

Jules Verne Adaptation/Steampunk

Director: Karel Zeman
Category: Science Fiction

Frankenstein (1973)

16 December 200510 January 2020

Rating: ★★★

Frankenstein Adaptation

Director: Glenn Jordan
Actors: Robert Foxworth, Bo Svenson, Susan Strasberg, John Karlen
Category: Horror

Frankenstein (2004)

27 May 200717 December 2020

Rating: ★★

Frankenstein Adaptation

Director: Kevin Connor
Actors: Alec Newman, Luke Goss, Donald Sutherland, William Hurt, …
Category: Horror

Frankenstein (2011)

21 September 201217 December 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Frankenstein Stage Adaptation

Director: Danny Boyle
Actors: Benedict Cumberbatch, Jonny Lee Miller, Naomie Harris, Karl Johnson, …
Category: Horror

Frankenstein: The True Story (1974)

5 September 200217 December 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Frankenstein Adaptation

Director: Jack Smight
Actors: Leonard Whiting, Michael Sarrazin, Jane Seymour, James Mason, …
Category: Horror

The Great Mouse Detective (1986)

24 November 20024 August 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Disney Animation/Mouse Sherlock Holmes

Director: Ron Clements, Bunny Mattinson, Dave Michener, John Musker
Actors: Barrie Ingham, Vincent Price, Val Bettin, Candy Candido, …
Category: Fantasy

Hands of the Ripper (1971)

24 December 200216 March 2020

Rating: ★★½

Jack the Ripper’s Daughter/Hammer Film

Director: Peter Sasdy
Actors: Eric Porter, Angharad Rees, Jane Merrow, Norman Bird, …
Category: Horror

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)

27 February 200229 October 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Sherlock Holmes Film/Ghostly Dog Mystery

Director: Sidney Lanfield
Actors: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Richard Greene, Lionel Atwill, …
Category: Horror

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)

25 August 200924 November 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Hammer Sherlock Holmes Film/Ghostly Dog Mystery

Director: Terence Fisher
Actors: Peter Cushing, Andre Morell, Christopher Lee, Francis de Wolff, …
Category: Horror

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983)

13 September 201729 October 2020

Rating: ★★★

Sherlock Holmes Film/Ghostly Dog Mystery

Director: Douglas Hickox
Actors: Ian Richardson, Donald Churchill, Martin Shaw, Denholm Elliott, …
Category: Horror

The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002)

25 May 200829 October 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Sherlock Holmes Film/Ghostly Dog Mystery

Director: David Attwood
Actors: Richard Roxburgh, Ian Hart, Matt Day, Richard E. Grant, …
Category: Horror

House of Wax (1953)

18 January 20105 October 2019

Rating: ★★★

Mad Waxworks Curator

Director: Andre de Toth
Actors: Vincent Price, Charles Bronson, Phyllis Kirk, Paul Picerni, …
Category: Horror

I, Monster (1971)

5 July 200214 May 2020

Rating: ★★★

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Adaptation

Director: Stephen Weeks
Actors: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Richard Hurndall, George Merritt, …
Category: Horror

Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (2013)

21 December 201429 September 2019

Rating: ★★

Animation/Boy With a Cuckoo-Clock Heart on a Quest

Director: Stephane Berla, Mathias Malzieu
Category: Fantasy

Jack the Ripper (1959)

6 February 201317 May 2019

Rating: ★★

Jack the Ripper Killings

Director: Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman
Actors: Lee Patterson, Betty McDowall, Eddie Byrne, Ewen Solon, …
Category: Horror

Jack the Ripper (1976)

13 August 201517 June 2020

Rating: ★★

Jack the Ripper Killings

Director: Jess Franco
Actors: Klaus Kinski, Herbert Fux, Lina Romay
Category: Horror

Jack the Ripper (1988)

27 October 201318 December 2019

Rating: ★★

Jack the Ripper Killings/TV Mini-Series

Director: David Wickes
Actors: Michael Caine, Lewis Collins, Armand Assante, Michael Gothard, …
Category: Horror

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

12 April 200310 April 2020

Rating: ★★½

Underground Adventures/Jules Verne Adaptation

Director: Henry Levin
Actors: James Mason, Pat Boone, Arlene Dahl, Thayer David, …
Category: Science Fiction

Jules Verne’s Rocket to the Moon (1967)

24 June 200719 June 2020

Rating: ★

Victorian Rocket Launch Comedy

Director: Don Sharp
Actors: Burl Ives, Terry-Thomas, Gert Frobe, Troy Donahue, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Limehouse Golem (2016)

25 September 20171 March 2019

Rating: ★★

Victorian Serial Killer

Director: Juan Carlos Medina
Actors: Bill Nighy, Olivia Cook, Douglas Booth, Daniel Mays, …
Category: Horror

Mary Reilly (1996)

17 July 200914 May 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Dr Jekyll’s Maid

Director: Stephen Frears
Actors: Julia Roberts, John Malkovich, George Cole, Glenn Close, …
Category: Horror

Missing Link (2019)

27 July 20198 October 2019

Rating: ★★½

Bigfoot Comedy/Stop-Motion Animation

Director: Chris Butler
Actors: Hugh Jackman, Zach Galifianakis, Zoe Saldana, Timothy Olyphant, …
Category: Fantasy

Murder By Decree (1979)

13 December 200213 July 2019

Rating: ★★★

Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper

Director: Bob Clark
Actors: Christopher Plummer, James Mason, Donald Sutherland, Genevieve Bujold, …
Category: Horror

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)

22 February 201912 August 2019

Rating: ★★

Fairytale Adaptation

Director: Lasse Hallström, Joe Johnston
Actors: Mackenzie Foy, Jayden Fowora Knight, Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren, …
Category: Fantasy

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

29 July 200210 January 2020

Rating: ★★

Eternally Youthful Libertine

Director: Albert Lewin
Actors: Hurd Hatfield, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Donna Reed
Category: Horror

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1973)

11 February 202011 February 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Eternally Youthful Libertine

Director: Glenn Jordan
Actors: Shane Briant, Nigel Davenport, Vanessa Howard, John Karlen, …
Category: Horror

The Prestige (2006)

30 November 20065 December 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Rival Victorian Stage Magicians

Director: Christopher Nolan
Actors: Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1987)

1 June 201417 January 2019

Rating: ★★

Sherlock Holmes Unfrozen in the Present

Director: Kevin Connor
Actors: Michael Pennington, Margaret Colin, Nicholas Guest, Lila Kaye, …
Category: Science Fiction

Sherlock Holmes (2009)

1 January 201020 November 2020

Rating: ★★½

Sherlock Holmes vs Black Magic

Director: Guy Ritchie
Actors: Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong, …
Category: Fantasy

Sherlock Holmes (2009)

26 November 201224 November 2020

Rating: ★★½

Sherlock Holmes Steampunk Adventure

Director: Rachel Lee Goldenberg
Actors: Ben Syder, Dominic Keating, Gareth David-Lloyd
Category: Science Fiction

A Study in Terror (1965)

17 July 201026 January 2021

Rating: ★★★½

Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper

Director: James Hill
Actors: John Neville, Anthony Quayle, Donald Houston, Robert Morley, …
Category: Horror

Sweeney Todd (2006)

15 December 20073 May 2020

Rating: ★★★

Murderous Barber

Director: David Moore
Actors: Ray Winstone, Tom Hardy, David Warner, Essie Davis, …
Category: Horror

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)

20 April 20163 May 2020

Rating: ★★

Murderous Barber

Director: George King
Actors: Tod Slaughter
Category: Horror

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

3 February 200822 September 2019

Rating: ★★

Murderous Barber Musical

Director: Tim Burton
Actors: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, …
Category: Horror

The Time Machine (1960)

19 January 20012 July 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Time Travel/H.G. Wells Adaptation

Director: George Pal
Actors: Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Time Machine (2002)

9 April 20023 May 2020

Rating: ★★

Time Travel/H.G. Wells Adaptation

Director: Simon Wells
Actors: Guy Pearce, Samantha Mumba, Orlando Jones, Mark Addy, …
Category: Science Fiction

Victor Frankenstein (2015)

5 December 20158 February 2021

Rating: ★

Frankenstein Adaptation

Director: Paul McGuigan
Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, James McAvoy, Jessica Brown-Findlay, Andrew Scott, …
Category: Horror

The War of the Worlds (2005)

3 July 201011 December 2019

Rating: ★★½

Period Alien Invasion/H.G. Wells Adaptation

Director: Timothy Hines
Category: Science Fiction

The War of the Worlds (2019)

13 December 201918 January 2021

Rating: ★★

Period Alien Invasion/H.G. Wells Adaptation

Director: Craig Viveiros
Actors: Eleanor Tomlinson, Rafe Spall, Rupert Graves, Robert Carlyle
Category: Science Fiction

The Wolfman (2010)

15 February 201019 February 2019

Rating: ★★★

Werewolf Film

Director: Joe Johnston
Actors: Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving, …
Category: Horror

The Wolves of Willougby Chase (1989)

31 July 201022 October 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Victorian Children’s Fantasy

Director: Stuart Orme
Actors: Stephanie Beacham, Mel Smith, Richard O'Brien, Geraldine James, …
Category: Fantasy

The Woman in Black (2012)

12 February 20129 May 2020

Rating: ★★

Ghost Story

Director: James Watkins
Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Ciaran Hinds, Janet McTeer, Shaun Dooley, …
Category: Horror

Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)

2 September 200328 November 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Teenage Sherlock Holmes/Adventure Film

Director: Barry Levinson
Actors: Nicholas Rowe, Sophie Ward, Anthony Higgins, Alan Cox, …
Category: Fantasy

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Theme Essays

  • Disaster Movies
  • Steampunk Films
  • Documentaries
  • Films About Halloween
  • Films About Prophecy
  • Nazis
  • Magicians and Sorcerers
  • Secret Societies
  • Real-Life People in Fiction
  • Techno-Thrillers
  • Twins in Fantastic Cinema
  • Asylums
  • Possession Films
  • Sexual Fetishism in Fantastic Cinema
  • Films About Imaginary and Magical Lands
  • Religion in Fantastic Cinema
  • Romantic Comedies
  • Film Noir
  • Spy Films
  • Jekyll and Hyde Films
  • Films That Make Dubious Claims to Being Based on True Stories
  • Coming of Age Stories in Fantastic Cinema
  • Films About Cryogenics and Suspended Animation
  • Alternate History Films
  • Disturbed Psychology as Portrayed on Film
  • Law Enforcement in Fantastic Cinema
  • Weird Westerns

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