This is an extremely rare flick to find. made just before the heydays of porn and horror. But it is searched by collectors from the porn genre because a view big names are here to see even as this isn't a porn at all. Be the biggest name Rene Bond. People also hunt it down for the horror. There's not that much blood to spot but here and there the red stuff do sputter on naked bodies and most notorious is also the fact that they used POV shots from the killer when he's killing people. Overall this really has an Andy Milligan look. The way it was edited with jumps in sound, bad acting, boring story, you know what I mean.
I can't really say that this is a roughie. As I said earlier it was made just before porn became the hottest (no pun intended) thing on VHS and on streets.
Why this flick is very rare to find is the fact that it was rated X by the MPAA, it did had a short theatrical play in the US and Canada but it vanished around 1973. In the eighties it would have been released in the UK wasn't it for the fact that the video nasties were hunted down and with a cover of a naked mutilated female body it became clear that an official release never could come out. Luckily orders came from outside the UK and so it came that a few copies were circling the earth. If that never happened we would never see this flick again. Still up to this writing it's not out on official release. It's hard to get your hands on with the original cover of the mutilated body. I'm glad mine has.
Why porn addicts hunted this down is clear, why horror geeks are searching for it lays also in the fact that it contains animal cruelty in the fact that frogs are dissected alive because laying wide open you still can see their heart pound.
On the other hand it's typical early seventies. None of the girls wear underwear so once their clothes are off you can see another typical fact, the prominent bikini-tan lines.
Why the name Jeckyll and Hyde is used is still unclear for me. We do see some weirdo walking around but it's really on the edge of the real story. But still, it's a weird story with an introduction, further we have a decapitation. A lot of naked titties, some lesbian scene's while a man is watching, oh yes, voyeurism is important here.
The V shaped symbol, the weird doctor, the head nurse protection the women against men after her daughter is being killed? What's it all about. Shaky camera's and too dark scene's.
For Milligan fans this is a must see. For others they will find it boring. Still, it's famous for all latter reasons, worth watching if you dig B-exploitation.
Gore 1/5 Nudity 2/5 Effects 1/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5
