Scream Factory Releasing Destroyer / Edge of Sanity Double Feature Blu-ray in April

Foywonder |

Jan 8, 2016

Typically when movies get released as a double feature disc, there’s some semblance of a common thread that makes the two fit. If you’re wondering what the prison slasher Destroyer and the Jekyll & Hyde remix Edge of Sanity have in common, here are three things tying the two films together:

1) Both films were released in 1988.
2) Both films feature Anthony Perkins.
3) Destroyer maniac Lyle Alzado died of brain cancer in 1992. Edge of Sanity psycho Anthony Perkins died of AIDS, also in 1992.

See? Scream Factory planned these two out perfectly to fit together, morbidly so.

Destroyer starred late football great turned actor Lyle Alzado as mass murderer Ivan Moser, convicted and executed by electrocution the night of a devastating prison riot. In the wake of the destruction and mayhem, the prison is shut down and Moser becomes a legend. No proof of his death existed. Eighteen months later, a film director (Anthony Perkins) intrigued by the legend of Moser decides to use the prison as a film set. On the last night of filming, the truth of Moser’s fate is about to be revealed. The film crew, trapped inside the prison, begin to disappear one by one. This electrifying thriller also stars Deborah Foreman (April Fool’s Day) and Clayton Rohner (I, Madman).

Edge of Sanity saw Anthony Perkins get his psycho on one last time as an outwardly rational Dr. Jekyll who rapidly descends into a world of sexual obsession and murder as Mr. Hyde – who may also be Jack the Ripper! After a lab experiment unleashes mysterious fumes, Dr. Henry Jekyll undergoes a horrifying transformation into a savage alter ego who calls himself “Jack Hyde.” Meanwhile, the depraved killer Jack the Ripper is slicing his way through the alleys of Whitechapel, leaving mutilated streetwalkers in his wake. Is there a connection between Jekyll/Hyde and Jack the Ripper? And can anyone stop his reign of terror?