 Being a blaxploitation film, "Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde" speaks to many different issues in American and global society concerning race, class and the Black Power Movement.Especially in the blaxploitation horror subgenre, there is more symbolism in the monster that the movie depicts.Benshoff notes that while horror movie monsters were usually meant to scare and incite fear in the audience, "many blaxploitation horror films reappropriated the mainstream cinema’s monstrous figures for black goals, turning vampires, Frankenstein monsters, and transformation monsters into agents of black pride and black power".