"This situation is rapidly becoming insalubrious!"
Dr. Black(Bernie Casey), who is actually named Dr. Pride, takes a magical serum that turns him into the evil Mr. Hyde(or Mr. White as this movie is also known in certain circles), an evil murderous white man with super strength. While this might be viewed as a bit of a racist film(but don't worry it's mainly just racist against white folks) it's also a pretty cool example of 70s blaxploitation(which in itself is now viewed as being racist against black folks to some more "woke"/"progressive"-types so that sounds like a pretty equality-filled feature to me). Probably one of the least scary horror films you will see, it works more as weird allegory about the dangers of drug-abuse or maybe just being too white?? All I know is we get a funky pimp character, named Silky, who takes on a car with a switchblade, hos tossed around like ragdolls by our White-enstein monster and there's even the classic KING KONG ending to top things all off. Nowhere near as iconic as BLACULA(also directed by William Crain) but it would make a good double-feature with that one. AKA THE WATTS MONSTER and DECISION FOR DOOM
One of the all-time great trailers!!(and the birth of Rap!):
The 3 faces(and titles) of Dr. Black!:
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