The monster of London

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Movie
German title The monster of London
Original title Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1976
length 87 minutes
Rod
Director William Crain
script Larry LeBron
production Charles Walker
music Johnny Godfather
camera Tak Fujimoto
cut Jack Horger
occupation

The monster of London (original title: Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde ) is an American Blaxploitation - horror film from 1976. The film is based on motifs from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . The film is the work of Blacula director William Crain .

action

Dr. Henry Pride is a doctor and scientist and, together with his colleague Dr. Billie Worth on a remedy to regenerate the liver . To test the serum , he first experiments with rats, and shortly afterwards with humans. A dying patient turns into a kind of albino for a short time and attacks a nurse. Finally, Dr. Pride the serum itself and turn white skin and hair as well. Similar to the Hulk , his body becomes larger and more misshapen with the features of a monster . In this state he is mainly guided by anger , but also by the desire for Linda.

During his transformation, he visits the Moonlight Lounge in the red light district , where his patient Linda Monte works. He fights himself with a black gang and takes on the drug-addicted colored pimp Silky. Since he escapes and transforms himself back, he remains undetected. When Dr. He performs Pride on Linda and reveals his mother's fate to her. She worked as a housemaid in a mansion , fell ill and eventually died because prostitutes refused to help her. He never came to terms with this traumatic event.

Dr. Pride tries to convince Linda to take the serum so that she no longer needs regular treatments and, to her horror, transforms into the monster before her eyes. A little later, children find a dead, naked woman close to Lindas. One of her friends dies on the way home. Linda willingly gives the police information, but keeps silent about Dr. Pride. The pimp Silky and two women die cruelly in an orgy because of the monster driving a car in a white Rolls-Royce . In a following scene, Dr. Pride with his reflection , which expresses his inner conflict. He changes the car and now drives a silver Mercedes-Benz .

Linda confronts Dr. Pride and go to the police, who are skeptical, but follow up on their leads. Transformed into the monster, Dr. Pride Linda's house and chase her around town. In a shop the seller shoots the monster unsuccessfully. Linda hides in an empty dark building and is eventually overwhelmed by the monster. With Linda in her arms, the monster is hunted by the police , as in King Kong films, and taken to the Watts Towers . The woman already released and killed a police dog, the monster climbs up the towers and dies in the hail of bullets and from the subsequent fall into the depths. If he acted animalically as a monster and made howling noises, as a dying person he was transformed into the stately and tragic Dr. Pride (the name Pride as a play on words with the title and meaning pride ) is back.

The German title Das Monster von London does not go into the two special features of the film as a Blaxploitation film and a Jekyll and Hyde adaptation and ignores the American landmark of the Watt Towers, which is hardly located in London .

criticism

The lexicon of international films wrote negatively that it was a "trivial, haunted horror film based on Robert L. Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ", but also to cinematic classics such as" King Kong "." Cavett Binion wrote in AllRovi, the film contains little of the still with Blacula existing hammer -like atmosphere but play like an urban action piece.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Monster of London. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ^ Criticism at AllRovi