105 Years Ago, The First Horror Blockbuster Kickstarted The Genre

105 Years Ago, The First Horror Blockbuster Kickstarted The Genre

Paramount PicturesDirector John S. Robertson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which premiered 105 years ago today, wasn't the first movie adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's landmark 1886 novel, but it's the oldest surviving version and still possibly the best. Stevenson’s tale, about a kindly doctor who transforms into a malevolent monster that acts upon his cruder desires, was adapted for the screen at least 10 times between 1908 and 1914, with t…