![]() We see both Jekyll and Hyde together in the same scene, fighting and arguing with one another. Unfortunately, the film becomes mired in confusion immediately following the end of the montage. It reminded me of laboratory experiments that I conducted during my graduate studies at PITS, one of which resulted in a chemical fire that was quite nearly catastrophic and ended with the narrow avoidance of a criminal charge. We begin with a laboratory montage of various syringes being filled, images from a microscope being studied, levers being levered, beakers being beaked and feverish notes being scribbled. Hyde, directed by John Carl Buechler and starring Tony Todd? Well, I didn’t have an orgasm… Alas, any time one reaches 120 of anything, be it different brands of cigars smoked, different types of beers drunk or different trips to Eli’s Drive-Thru Chicken Shack you are going to encounter a wide array of experiences that range on the spectrum from “orgasmical” to “Good God, that was just awful.” Where, on said spectrum, would we find the 2006 film version of The Strange Case of Dr. Holy Jesus, did I get that correct? Over 120 different adaptations for stage and screen? Damnation, that is something to marvel at. would have to be fairly beaming at the fact that there have been over 120 stage and film adaptations produced to date of his classic work. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, as eminent philosopher and sometimes drunken gambler Charles Caleb Colton once stated, then I suppose R.L. Hyde” was written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published as a novella in 1886. Tonight we’ve chosen a legendary nutjob to place under the Tuesday Night Cigar Club microscope… THE FILM – THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. The first icon on the docket was Frankenstein, followed then by Leatherface, The Wolfman, and that little bastard Chucky. Naturally I thought that this concept was brilliant. Cade came up with the grand idea that The Doctor should review a film to pair with his cigar reviews. TNCC frontman Matthew Cade was recently provided a batch of horror themed cigars from Famous Smoke Shop, each one named after a famous icon from horror film history. ![]()
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