As a "found footage" style parody, the film uses subtitles and other on-screen text to lean into "errors" typical of the era:

The most famous instance of subtitles occurs during Black Dynamite's traumatic flashback to the Vietnam War.

In the cult classic film , the use of subtitles is a deliberate comedic device used to parody the low-budget, poorly dubbed, or poorly translated nature of 1970s blaxploitation and international action cinema. The "Vietnam Flashback" Subtitle Joke