Dr. Jekyll's Dungeon of Death

Name: Dr. Jekyll's Dungeon of Death
Genre: Horror
Released: 1979-06-15
Duration: 1 h 32 min
Rating: 3.1
Cast: James Mathers, John F. Kearney, Dawn Carver Kelly

19791979
RR
1h 32m

IMDb RATING

3.1/10

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The great grandson of the original Dr. Jekyll kidnaps people and experments on them with the aggression serum created by his great grand dad.The great grandson of the original Dr. Jekyll kidnaps people and experments on them with the aggression serum created by his great grand dad.The great grandson of the original Dr. Jekyll kidnaps people and experments on them with the aggression serum created by his great grand dad.

IMDb RATING

3.1/10

325

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

36,195

23,849

Director
- James Wood
Writers
- James Mathers
- James Wood(from an original story idea by)
Stars

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James Mathers in Dr. Jekyll's Dungeon of Death (1979)

John F. Kearney and James Mathers in Dr. Jekyll's Dungeon of Death (1979)

Nadine Kalmes in Dr. Jekyll's Dungeon of Death (1979)

Dawn Carver Kelly and James Mathers in Dr. Jekyll's Dungeon of Death (1979)

Dawn Carver Kelly in Dr. Jekyll's Dungeon of Death (1979)

James Mathers and Tom Nickelson in Dr. Jekyll's Dungeon of Death (1979)

Dawn Carver Kelly, James Mathers, and Jake Pearson in Dr. Jekyll's Dungeon of Death (1979)

Trivia
Adding to the strangeness of the movie, the producer, Hyde Productions Inc., registers its copyright in Nevada, the shooting involves six black belt holders in Karate trained in San Francisco (California), and the premiere was a double-bill with The Driller Killer (1979) - a movie located in NYC (New York) - simultaneously at three Miami (Florida) theaters:
Turnpike Drive-In, 12850 NW 27th Avenue, closed in 1986;
Tropicaire Drive-In, 7751 Bird Road, that closed in 1987;
Homestead Theatre, Homestead City, that became Wometco multi-screen complex there, closed forever in 1992 after being devastated by Hurricane Andrew.
None of these three theaters was still open when the movie got a revival in 1988, in VHS format, in the USA and the UK.

Connections
Featured in Filmgore (1983)

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Review

Featured review

3/10

The Dungeon of dreadfulness

Dr Jekyll's grandson is alive, mad and conducting inhuman experiments in San Francisco, aided by his black hunchbacked assistant called Boris. The Dungeon is not, disappointingly, a place of torture but where Jekyll's human guinea pigs, once injected with serum, fight to the death using martial arts. This movie is certainly a curiosity. These fights scenes, which are fairy long, are probably the best thing about this dreadful movie. And that's not saying much! The plot and script are as awful as the acting. Pretty much the whole film takes place in Jekyll's poorly lit mansion, near darkness at times. The film is incredibly cheesy, dreadfully bad but also slightly entertaining for those reasons. Released in the UK as The Dungeon.

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