Then he convulsively buries his face in his hands.Joan materializes in the room and glides oward her husband, exuding feline gracefulness.Then she asks Werdegast: "You are frightened, doctor?" Not surprised and emotionally unaffected by the black cat""s murder, Poelzig is forgiving toward Werdegast and offers an explanation:You must be indulgent with Dr.Wade was injected with a special serum - he was told that it "activates any mutant genes lurking in your DNA."Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)This was the first sequel in the original five-film series.The main members of the original cast all reprised their roles.The film was the first of threeRockyfilms that Stallone would not only write and star in, but also direct.It was the longest and most expensive Hollywood sound film of he time.The film (originally rough-cut at 6 hours in length) was challenging in its making, due to its controversial subject matter (including rape, drunkenness, moral dissipation, adultery, and more recently, its simplistic depiction of slavery and nostalgic view of the ante-bellum pre-Civil War South).