The Jekyll and Hyde Portfolio (1971)

by Mark Murton and Linda Kay

Directed by: Eric Jeffrey Haims

Synopsis: Wretched, amateurish sexploitation / horror hybrid with a mad killer stalking the nubile staff at a secluded nursing academy.

Kitty Cameo: The film starts with narration from the police detective called in to investigate the killings and as he sets the scene describing the academy a tabby kitten is seen wandering the grounds (perhaps because of the line describing the institute’s head, Dr. Cabala, as a mystery figure “able to move as quietly and unobtrusively as a cat,” which is made even more ludicrous by the editor’s choice to dub a bizarre track of a cat screeching during a wind storm over the footage of the clearly calm kitten on a sunny day.)

The Jekyll and Hyde Portfolio - tabby kitten on stairs
The Jekyll and Hyde Portfolio - tabby kitten coming down stairs
The Jekyll and Hyde Portfolio - tabby kitten below stairs

Fortunately the cat doesn’t go inside the building where the only horror the talentless makers of this trash can offer up is nauseating close-ups of live frog dissection.

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Final Mewsings: At least the kitten escaped the scalpel!

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