Dr Black and Mr Hyde

I know Halloween is over, (although various of my neighbours still have pumpkins mouldering away on their doorsteps - going by past precedent they'll still be there come Christmas), I thought I'd give you another horror-orientated trailer.  A blaxploitation horror flick, at that - two of my favourite things in one package!  Perhaps one of the most ludicrous of the Blaxploitation cycle's horror offerings, Dr Black and Mr Hyde features nice Doctor Bernie Casey taking an experimental serum and turning evil - and white!  The idea of a monster in whiteface is novel, to say the least.  As with many of these things, the trailer is probably more entertaining than the actual film, particularly the rhyming narration - "Don't give him no sass, or he'll kick your ass!"

To be honest, I've always felt that the Jeckyll/Hyde story would be better served in blaxploitation terms the opposite way around to the way it is presented here.  Surely it would be more effective if the Doctor was an evil white supremacist who turns into a suave black sex machine?  One who can service the impotent Doc's wife like she's never been serviced before.  Wouldn't that be a great plot twist?  The racist finds that he is being cuckolded by a black man who is actually him!  However, that wasn't the film they made. Instead they made Dr Black and Mr Hyde which, whilst entertaining, is no Blacula.