Dr. Henry Jekyll (James Mathers, who also wrote this movie; he was a playwright and actor whose career was filled with minor roles on TV and on stage) is the grandson of the one from the book and lives in San Francisco. This movie feels like it could take place in the 1800s or 1979, depending on the scene. He invites his teacher, Professor Atkinson (John F. Kearney, in his first acting role at the age of 48; he’s follow that with non-sex roles in the Gary Graver adult movies Indecent Proposal and Society Affairs; he also directed Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men at the Savoy Theatre in London, England with George Costigan, Matthew Kelly and Tyrone Huggins in the cast and OH YEAH is Mike Justice’s dad!) to see his work and commisaerate on the death of Atkinson’s daughter — and Jekyll’s girlfriend and lab assistant — Julia (Dawn Carver Kelly, one and done).

Except that his experiments involve making men and women battle in proto-MMA fights after being injected with drugs. And he also has a mute sister, Hilda (Nadine Kalmes), whom he claims that he hates and desires as much as their mother. There’s also his lab assistant, Boris (Jake Pearson), who we’re led to believe was attacked by Jekyll during an adventure and is now serving him. 

Jekyll wants to hurt — or marry — Julia and often forces her to accept him making love to her while his sister watches one-handed from the hallway. He also likes to whip Boris and say “Love is pain” over and over again. He also loves to inject his test cases — Rick Alemany (also the fight coordinator), Tes Luz, Lydia Altamirano, Jesse Washington and Earl Garlin — in fights to the death that are way too worked. 

It’s…well, great is too much, but it’s certainly strange, as everyone starts this movie on 10 or zero, depending on if you’re a scientist or brainswashed, and you get long scenes of savagery and the professor screaming “No, no, no more!” 

Hyde Productions Inc. registered its copyright in Nevada, and the premiere was a double feature with The Driller Killer at Miami-area drive-ins: the Turnpike Drive-In, the Tropicaire Drive-In, and the Homestead Theatre. Arthur Weisberg, the presenter of this film, also used the name Rochelle Gail Weisberg, also was behind Teeny Buns, C.B. Hustlers, Drive In Massacre, Spirit of Seventy Sex, 9 Lives of a Wet Pussy, The Driller Killer and Ms. 45. He also conducted the score for Dark Dreams, played basoon on The Miracle Worker and is credited with inventing the “Future Basoon” and taught at the Juilliard School, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Yale School of Music, Manhattan School of Music and Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music.

You can watch this on Tubi.