Eddie (Joe De Sue) is a quadruple amputee after stepping on a landmine in Vietnam. Fortunately, his fiancée, Dr. Winifred Walker (Ivory Stone), knows a Nobel-winning geneticist who has been working on reattaching limbs with DNA therapy. Dr. Stein (John Hart) is hopeful that they can give Eddie a new lease on life, but his assistant/manservant Malcomb (Roosevelt Jackson) sabotages the formula because he's angry that Winifred rejected his advances. Eddie is turned into a violent killer who rampages night after night.
This is one for the "unintentional comedy" files. I can't find photos of the writer, Frank Saletri, but my money says he and the director, William Levey, were both white men trying to capitalize on the blaxploitation movement. The movie feels profoundly racist, specifically in Eddie's choice of victims, the continual references to being primitive, using animal RNA in the serum, amidst a general vibe. It's poorly shot, poorly acted, and poorly written. That being said, if you get a group of friends together, this movie is hilarious. It's so bad on so many levels that it circles back to being a crowd-pleaser. Amazing. It's streaming on Amazon Prime and on Shudder.
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