I'm not sure if the way cooler, and more descriptively titled DR. JEKYLL'S DUNGEON OF DEATH version of this 70's torture film is more graphic than this one but it does feel like they cut away from anything too gory in the print that I viewed which is a shame because there isn't a whole lot else to recommend this flick for. Whatever edition you watch though I imagine it's still pretty tedious for most of it's running time. Most of the film consists of Dr. Jekyll(who is the great grandson of the original Dr. Jekyll) beating on women inter-cut between scenes of his captive victims, who he experiments on, having karate fights. Why Jekyll only kidnaps karate students is never explained but I guess martial arts was big at the time so what the hell. The actor who plays Jekyll is very grating to watch and I guess his intent was to show how evil he is by acting in an annoying over the top fashion but it makes for a long ride. His brilliant idea is not to inject himself with his great grandfather's Mr. Hyde potion but use it on others(just brilliant!). He is helped by a large, limping, scarred and deformed black manservant named Boris(who looks a bit like Blackenstein), a black sharpshooter/psychopath and Jekyll's mute nutso sister(throw in some incest here for the hell of it). At least there are some interesting characters present even if they never really do a whole hell of a lot. The ending is OK with just about everyone ending up dead which is the sort of 70's ending I prefer. I imagine this film would appeal to sadists(who enjoy seeing people beaten to death in boring, crappily choreographed American kung-fu fights, women having hot water poured on them and other general misogyny) and masochists who enjoy being beaten senseless with horrendous acting. I don't think I could make it through another watch without some heavy psychedelic drug usage. AKA THE JEKYLL EXPERIMENT
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