After taking an experimental drug, the eccentric Dr. Henry Jekyll is transformed into a bloodthirsty man-shark.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Shark sinks its teeth into the classic tale of duality and madness, reimagined through a deliriously offbeat lens of low-budget horror. From cult director Max Raven--better known to genre fans as Bret McCormick, the creator behind Repligator, The Abomination, and Highway to Hell--comes a feverish hybrid of gothic tragedy, creature feature excess, and grindhouse absurdity.

The story follows the eccentric Dr. Henry Jekyll (Randy Clower, Repligator, Bio-Tech Warrior), whose descent into grief and obsession begins after the death of his beloved wife. Desperate to pierce the veil between life and death, Jekyll experiments with a mysterious serum known as Sharcopine--an experimental compound that mutates him into a savage, amphibious predator. Torn between his human intellect and his monstrous impulses, Jekyll prowls the night as a man-shark hybrid, driven by an unholy fusion of scientific curiosity, longing, and bloodlust.

Victoria Chaney, Tom Fegan, and Erica Muse (One Piece, Cruel Summer, Attack on Titan) round out the cast, balancing the film's absurd premise with deadpan sincerity. Muse's performance as the spectral embodiment of Jekyll's lost love lends unexpected emotional weight to the carnage, while Clower's transformation scenes pay gleeful homage to 1980s practical effects mayhem. Raven shoots the material with both grim conviction and knowing humor, evoking the bizarre charm of drive-in-era horror while winking toward his own legacy of DIY sci-fi terror.

Released by Wild Eye Releasing, the studio behind Sharkula, Sharkenstein, and the Jurassic Shark franchise, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Shark continues their tradition of blending classic literary themes with unapologetic monster-movie spectacle. The film includes a director introduction by Raven himself, a collection of outtakes, and short cast introductions featuring Dani Bliss, Erica Muse, and Randy Clower, along with the usual roster of Wild Eye trailers.

A pulpy collision of Victorian horror and aquatic insanity, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Shark is part parody, part passion project--a creature feature that celebrates the rough edges and creative excesses of regional horror filmmaking. As Wild Eye notes, shark cinema and mockbuster appeal remain stronger than ever, and this latest entry proves that even the most timeworn stories can still mutate into something weirdly original when filtered through the demented imagination of Max Raven.

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Bonus Materials

• Director Introducction
• Outtakes
• Meet Dani Bliss
• Meet Erica Muse
• Meet Randy Clower
• Trailers

 

Cast & Crew

Actors:

•       Randy Clower as Jekyll
•       Victoria Chaney as Samantha
•       Tom Fegan as Stanton
•        Erica Muse as Letitia

Director: Max Raven

Additional Details

Label: Wild Eye Releasing

Genre: Horror

Language: English

Run Time: 70 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 01/20/26

UPC: 760137194330