Mary Reilly

A gothic chamber piece that reimagines the Jekyll and Hyde myth through a servant’s unsteady gaze, blending Victorian dread with psychological melodrama.

• Julia Roberts’s Mary offers a naïve but hauntingly intimate point of view rarely explored in Jekyll adaptations.
• John Malkovich’s turn as the dual doctor is a simmering study in repression and menace, anchoring the film’s uneasy atmosphere.
• Practical Victorian sets and costumes evoke period detail, though the pacing leans more toward brooding drama than pure horror tension.
• For fans of character-driven gothic horror who can stomach a slower burn, this is a curious if flawed genre detour.