Generally agreed to be the very worst film in the original blaxploitation cycle, BLACKENSTEIN is too dull and uninteresting even to laugh at.
Doctor Winifred Walker (Ivory Stone) comes to her mentor with a slight problem; her fiance Eddie (Joe DeSue) has lost all his limbs in Vietnam. Luckily Dr. Stein (John Hart) recently won the Nobel Prize for his work in putting limbs back on the limbless, and together they make Eddie a whole man
again. But Dr. Stein's assistant Malcomb (Roosevelt Jackson) wants Winifred for his own, and switches the bottles of something-or-other before the operation, turning Eddie into a murderous monster with a square afro.
One night a...
Released:
1972
Rated:
R
Length:
93 mins