Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, the 1971 gender change horror movie

Back in 1971 the British production company Hammer Film Production presented another Gothic horror movie: Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde. It was based on the 1886 story The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.

(The movie should not be confused with the 1995 comedy Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde).

The Hammer movies has never been considered high art by any means, but the effective use of clichés (amazing Victorian characters and sets, to name one) and clever filming and editing continue to be fun to watch. The company is still around.

Dr. Jekyll is looking for an elixir of life and realizes that giving flies female hormones make them live longer. They also turn males into females.  

Planning to use himself as a human test subject Dr. Jekyll has to get hold of bodies of women to get access to said hormones, and while he starts out buying corpses provided by grave robbers it all soon escalates into murders of the Jack the Ripper kind.

Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde does have some crossdreamer qualities. The first transformation scene is clearly an erotic one, and much more explicit than the clip below may indicate. The movie also makes use of a trope from TG fiction, where the female personality - sexy, alluring and obsessive - threatens to take over completely. 

All in all it is not a bad movie, as far as B movies go. Do not expect realism, though. It takes only 30 seconds from the doctor drinks a glass of female hormones until "Sister Hyde" takes over. We wish!

See also discussion over at Crossdream Life.

New body swap movies and TV series of interest

It seems the interest in gender body swap movies and TV series come and go, but recently we have had quite a few you might want to take a look at.

This post is partly based on information shared over at Crossdream Life.

Body Swap (2011)

Timothy Morton has made an independent movie starring Ella Jordan and Jimmy Kustes, called Body Swap.

As is often the case with such movies the plot is there to explore gender differences and how men and women can learn to better understand each other. 

It is not made by a crossdreamer.

I see that it is found on Amazon, Tubi and Plex in some areas.

 

Swap Me Baby  (2022)

This is one seriously trippy movie, and not only because one of the main characters is using magic mushrooms.

Lily, business woman and control freak, ends up in bed with Philippe, a French mushroom tripping gigolo. So they get pregnant. Their therapist recommends a trip to a cabin in the woods, introducing them to a magic box that... you know, does magic. Hence the body swap.

I do not know what to make of the film. First and foremost it is some kind of crazy romantic comedy. But it has some serious undertones as well. 

I also made note of the fact that whoever made this film is a sucker for body swap movies in general. There is even a reference to the original Freaky Friday movie.

This is not a crossdreamer movie, either, but it is a lot of fun.

The Sex Trip, a missed opportunity

Eddie wakes up and finds out he has become Jade Ramsey.

Anthony Cohen's movie The Sex Trip makes use of nearly all the gender bender clichés we know from Fictionmania:

Vain and misogynistic male chauvinist bastard? Check! This one is even writing books about how to trick women into sleeping with you.

Meeting wizard/witch/genie who wants to teach him the true value of love? Check! It is a homeless woman this time, and as he refuses to kiss her, he soon finds himself waking  up in a sexy woman's body.

Hilarious bathroom scene with missing penis panic and breast grabbing? Check! Although it is not that funny, and there isn't much breast grabbing. You should think... well, nevermind.

Learning to know the value of real love after having spent time as a woman? Check! So what seems like a traditional sexist movie at the start, turns out to have a pro-woman, nearly feminist, message in the end.

It is not a bad movie, per se. It presents itself as a romantic comedy, and it truly is an unpretentious romantic comedy.

Predestination

Predestination is a new movie starring Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook.  I'm not sure of the worldwide release date, but hopefully we'll get to see it soon, since the buzz about it and the trailer (below) are very intriguing.

The core of the movie is about a time-travelling cop whose job it is to set things right.  Of course, we've seen this kind of thing before.  However the interesting part is that there seems to be a gender-bending aspect to it as well.  Not many details have been released, but if you watch the trailer, you'll see that Sarah Snook seems to be both male AND female in it.

Check out more details of the film at this IMDB link as well.

Wren

Forced Sex Change Hollywood Style

A forced sex change Hollywood style? Well...... not with the low budget allowed for this film. Done in the style of a low budget Saw type slasher movie our 'Victim' is kidnapped and forcibly feminised by a mad surgeon and his scary henchman.

This film does not really leave room for any fantasy enthusiasts out there who dream about being forced into having a sex change. A far better example is Almodovars The Skin I Live In. Still worth a watch though.

Hard to obtain on DVD as I think it was mainly made for streaming purposes. I think it was released on DVD in Australia in multi region format. Here is the trailer:  Cheryl x

She Man - A Forced Feminization Film Classic

As a film buff I have always been fascinated by any film with covers our subject matter, especially exploitation cinema. We have probably all heard of films like Glen or Genda or Let Me Die a Woman which for their faults do attempt at some form of understanding and acceptance of the transgendered community in the days of old. However this little gem SHE MAN (1967) goes straight to the jugular and just exposes what clearly must be the directors fantasy. The first forced feminization movie ever made. The ingredients are: blackmail, forced cross dressing, a dominatrix and naturally the forced taking of female hormones. How on earth could this be made into a film and put into cinemas back in 1967??

Albert Rose (Leslie Marlowe) is a spoiled rich young man who receives a mysterious letter concerning a secret from his past. He is quickly flown to a hotel room in Florida, where he quickly realises he is the subject of a blackmail scheme. The blackmailer,  Dominitra (Dorian Wayne) demands twenty thousand dollars and one year of servitude from Albert.

Albert is then whisked off to Dominitra's home where we see other 'transformed' victims of the cruel Dominita. The rules are men must dress and act like women, and women must dress and act like men. Albert's is re-christened Rose Albert and put on a diet of female hormones. There is a love interest element too as Albert falls for another servant, Ruth (Wendy Roberts), and the two team up to try and stop Dominitra. Can they stop Dominita, will Albert reclaim his masculinity, will Dominita get her wig pulled off in the final scene? I actually thought Dominita was played by a real woman when I first watched this film.

So what happened to the film director of this lost forced feminization classic? Well Bob Clark went on to make more well known movies such as Porky's, Porky's II and Black Christmas. Bob also made another strange crossdressing movie in 1966 The Emperor's New Clothes. I went on to make Tranisa.

Cheryl x