UNSUNG HORRORS HORROR GIVES BACK 2025: The Adult Version of Jekyll & Hide (1972)

Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year, they will once again be setting up a fundraiser to benefit Best Friends, which works to save the lives of cats and dogs across America, giving pets second chances and providing them with happy homes.

Today’s theme: Birth year (1972)

Dr. Chris Leeder (John Barnum, using the name James Buddliner; he was also in Sex In the ComicsA Touch of SwedenFrankie and Johnny…Were Lovers and Angie Baby) has already killed someone to get his hands on Dr. Jekyll’s ancient notebook. Why? The formula that  “makes people appear as they really are.”

This could be a warning, but Dr. Leeder doesn’t care. He mixes up a potion for himself and turns into Miss Hide.

That’s right, he is now a she, played by Jane Tsentas, star of more than fifty disreputable movies like Blood SabbathLittle CigarsEvil Come Evil Go and The Jekyll and Hyde Portfolio.

Directed by Lee Raymond (Blackie in She Freak) and written by Robert Birch (whose only other IMDB credit is playing trumpet on an A&E Civil War TV movie), this also has Laurie Rose as the doctor’s nurse and wife, Linda York (she’s also in Auditions) as a sex worker who gets beaten by Dr. Hyde in the past, Linda McDowell and most of all, Rene Bond, who is some kind of vision created by a mad doctor in a lab. I refuse to believe she was a real person.

David F. Friedman produced it, so you know that means quality, if what you mean by quality is non-stop sex and violence. I mean, I do.

You can watch this on CultPix.

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