After an opening scene of boozy sex, fought-off mutation and a dopey looking meltdown, Jacqueline Hyde settles down into a pretty silly tale of a frumpy looking woman called Jackie (co-producer Gabriella Hall) who loses her telemarketing job only to inherit her grandfather's castle-like house. However it seems that granddad was the guy we saw turn into a meaty skeleton at the beginning of the movie and he's been working on a serum dubbed "Formula 55" which is turns out not only opens the users sexual desires, but also gives them the ability to take any form they like.

This appeals immensely to Jackie who accidentally ends-up taking a dose when after finding the vials she stumbles around like a jackass and spills some into her glass of red wine. Soon enough she's letting free all of her pent-up sexual desires first starting small by taking the form of a supermodel from a magazine (Blythe Metz, who gets to strut her stuff as a "evil bitch" later in the movie) in order to hit on the lawyer who first brought her to the house. From there we get plenty of scenes of skin and mild erotica as Jackie takes the form of the girl next door (who she naughtily watched having sex with her boyfriend earlier) which leads to scenes of her going to a strip club for a lap dance, having sex with said boyfriend, and even giving the audience a CGI assisted scene where her breasts grow to four times their original size. Jackie also decides to pose as the boyfriend in order to learn how sex feels for the opposite gender. So in other words, Jacqueline Hyde definitely gives the male audience a whole slew of pretty lame sexual encounters (and many bared breasts) to try and keep them interested.

Of course, this being a slim adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic horror tale, Jackie soon finds herself becoming addicted to the formula which leads to lots of cornball "cut 'n' paste" trip-out scenes and eventually some murder to sate the formula's hold on her. These murder scenes are quite welcome when we consider that the movie is an hour in and all we've gotten are lots of tepid sexual innuendos, unintentionally funny scenes of Jackie willing herself to have an orgasm, and too much out-of-body sex - so when one guy's arm is snapped in half and other person's head is ripped off it gives us a break from all the softcore dopiness.

Almost playing out like a higher budgeted Seduction Cinema film, Jacqueline Hyde gets acceptable performances out of Hall and Metz and looks pretty decent considering the low budget but your enjoyment of the movie will completely hitch on your tolerance for junky effects, abundant skin, and a finale (and its whole "melding together" angle) that makes no sense. Close to a rating but saved on its sheer silliness alone - and that one scene involving a nipple in the last third (you'll see...).

Review based on Unrated version. Streets on October 18th from Lightyear Entertainment - click link for more info. (Chris Hartley, 10/5/05)

Directed By: Rolfe Kanefsky.
Written By: Rolfe Kanefsky.

Starring: Gabriella Hall, Blythe Metz, Jeremy Ordaz, Rebekah Ellis.

Picture Ratio: 1.78:1 Widescreen.

Picture Quality: While the picture suffers from a bit of fuziness throughout but it's still a fairly decent transfer and is completely watchable.

Extras: Not a bad batch of special features here from Lightyear/Warner as we get a trailer, still gallery, cast and crew bios, 12 extended and deleted scenes, a brief "behind-the-scenes" featurette, and an okay commentary track featuring Kanefsky, Hall, and Metz.