Vintage and engrossing horrror-fest with humorous and tongue-in-cheek elements based on HG Well novella about a scientist named Jack Griffin, - Claude Rains' fine role, though his face is not seen until near the final- who discovers a formula for invisibility slowly leads to megalomaniac tendency and drives him insane . As he becomes invisible thanks to his experiments with the drug monocaine, a surprising formula creating invisibility. As his mind and brain definitively wandering and he planning to use his recipe to rule over the world. Then the invisible man flees after being charged with murder, escaping from the police officers.
Decent Hollywood rendition of HG Wells story about a scientific whose invisibility causes wreak havoc, including train derailing, car crashes, throwing people down cliffs, killings and anything else. His megalomania that ensues about him using unseen invisibility to go against people is performed for pathos, suspense, thrills, chills but also irony and humor with tongue-in-cheek. The visual detail is maqnificent with adequate cinematography by Arthur Edeson, as well as magnificent FX by John P Fulton and John Mescal. Furthermore, setting standards have been very imitated, but they were difficult to surpass at the time. Claude Rains' first character, though his body does not shows up until the ending, but his voice characterization is awesome . The movie made Claude Rains a Hollywood star out of English-born player, even though his brief appearance. He played incisive and intelligent characters with condiderable success. Subsequently, Rains quickly developed an important career with essential roles as in Casablanca and Notorious .He was nominated four times for Academy Awards, Oscars, shamefully without winning once as best actor. Remaining cast is pretty good , such as Gloria Stuart, Henry Travers, William Harrigan, Una O'Connor, Walter Brennan, EE Clive, Dudley Digges, and John Carradine. The motion picture was professionally directed by James Whale, though he relies heavily on black humor and hilarious as well as absurd incidents. James Whale was one of the best Hollywood filmmakers. He directed a lot of prestigious films of all kinds of genres, drama, comedy, musical, adventure, such as : Journey's end, By candelight, One more river, Remember last night?, Show boat, The great Garrick, The man in the iron mask. Outstanding in Terror, mystery genre, such as : Frankenstein, The bride of Frankenstein, The old dark house and The invisible man. Rating 6.5/10.
It is followed by several sequels and remakes, such as : The invisible man returns 1940 by Joe May with Vincent Price, Cedric Hardwicke, John Sutton. The Woman Invisible 1940 by Edward Sutherland with John Barrymore, Margaret Hamilton, Virginia Bruce . The invisible man's revenge 1944 by Ford Beebe with John Hall, John Carradine, Gale Sondergaard, Evelyn Ankers. The memoirs of the invisible man 1992 by John Carpenter with Chevy Chase, Daryl Hanna, Michael McKean, Sam Neill . The Hollow Man by Paul Verhoveen with Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth Shue. And its sequel, The Hollow Man II, by Claudio Fah with Christian Slater, Peter Facinelli, Laura Regan, among others.
Decent Hollywood rendition of HG Wells story about a scientific whose invisibility causes wreak havoc, including train derailing, car crashes, throwing people down cliffs, killings and anything else. His megalomania that ensues about him using unseen invisibility to go against people is performed for pathos, suspense, thrills, chills but also irony and humor with tongue-in-cheek. The visual detail is maqnificent with adequate cinematography by Arthur Edeson, as well as magnificent FX by John P Fulton and John Mescal. Furthermore, setting standards have been very imitated, but they were difficult to surpass at the time. Claude Rains' first character, though his body does not shows up until the ending, but his voice characterization is awesome . The movie made Claude Rains a Hollywood star out of English-born player, even though his brief appearance. He played incisive and intelligent characters with condiderable success. Subsequently, Rains quickly developed an important career with essential roles as in Casablanca and Notorious .He was nominated four times for Academy Awards, Oscars, shamefully without winning once as best actor. Remaining cast is pretty good , such as Gloria Stuart, Henry Travers, William Harrigan, Una O'Connor, Walter Brennan, EE Clive, Dudley Digges, and John Carradine. The motion picture was professionally directed by James Whale, though he relies heavily on black humor and hilarious as well as absurd incidents. James Whale was one of the best Hollywood filmmakers. He directed a lot of prestigious films of all kinds of genres, drama, comedy, musical, adventure, such as : Journey's end, By candelight, One more river, Remember last night?, Show boat, The great Garrick, The man in the iron mask. Outstanding in Terror, mystery genre, such as : Frankenstein, The bride of Frankenstein, The old dark house and The invisible man. Rating 6.5/10.
It is followed by several sequels and remakes, such as : The invisible man returns 1940 by Joe May with Vincent Price, Cedric Hardwicke, John Sutton. The Woman Invisible 1940 by Edward Sutherland with John Barrymore, Margaret Hamilton, Virginia Bruce . The invisible man's revenge 1944 by Ford Beebe with John Hall, John Carradine, Gale Sondergaard, Evelyn Ankers. The memoirs of the invisible man 1992 by John Carpenter with Chevy Chase, Daryl Hanna, Michael McKean, Sam Neill . The Hollow Man by Paul Verhoveen with Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth Shue. And its sequel, The Hollow Man II, by Claudio Fah with Christian Slater, Peter Facinelli, Laura Regan, among others.