Film Review: Dr. Black and Mr. Hyde

A blaxplotation film version of the old Dr. Jeykyll and Mr. Hyde where the good black doctor takes a serum and becomes an evil white man? They probably couldn't do it today, but they did it in 1974. Is it worth watching? It is actually halfway watchable. Not only is it hilariously based on now considered derogatory racial and gender stereotypes, it's also in all other conceivable ways mongoloid. For some reason there's a whole lot of hookers in the script, and a pimp named, of course, Silky. The doctor treats the hookers for the VDs at the Watts free clinic, but when he injects that serum he's working on to cure liver disease, look at hookers, he becomes a superhumanly strong white man! Which of course means he kills hookers! I think even at the time this thing only would have shown at scumbag little grindhouse theaters. I like the overriding message that a black man getting a med degree turns him into a white man that kills hookers. Hay, I'm a white guy I've got a couple dead hookers stashed in my apartment. That's what being a white guy is all about, murdering prostitutes! In fact that's the secret initiation into being a white guy, you have to go bag yourself a hooker. If you kill a hooker your like to find more money in her purse than was used to make this film.