{"id":1670,"date":"2018-10-21T21:02:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T01:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2018-10-21T21:02:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T01:02:48","slug":"universal-classic-monster-movies-an-ocf-classic-movie-review-part-6-the-invisible-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/21\/universal-classic-monster-movies-an-ocf-classic-movie-review-part-6-the-invisible-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Classic Monster Movies \u2013 An OCF Classic Movie Review \u2013 Part 6 – The Invisible Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

Re-posted from October 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Invisible Man, to be pedantically precise, is not a monster movie but a science fiction story.\u00a0 H.G. Wells\u2019 tale of a scientist who develops a technique to render the human body (his own) invisible is not really monstrous in a physical sense but because the technique drives the inventor insane we are back in the neighborhood of the Mad Scientist.\u00a0 And since Dr. Frankenstein is then brought to mind we can shoehorn this science fiction story into the genre.\u00a0 Claude Rains (the Wolfman\u2019s father from an earlier chapter of this review) is the Invisible Man.\u00a0 Or rather Claude Rains voice is the star of the movie, since until the very last scene we can\u2019t see his face.\u00a0 But it\u2019s a very good voice.\u00a0 And since often we can\u2019t exactly tell what he\u2019s doing he spends a fair amount of time telegraphing his actions to help us guess what his actions are that the other characters are pantomiming around.\u00a0 And he\u2019s an active fellow.\u00a0 He kills a few people with his bare (invisible) hands.\u00a0 He bludgeons some others and he goes in for some mass murder via railway sabotage.\u00a0 He ends up a rather unsavory fellow.\u00a0 But somehow there remains a somewhat sympathetic core to the character.\u00a0 Based on the people who still try to help him he must have been a good man before his descent into madness.\u00a0 Therefore, we can look at him as a victim of his own scientific curiosity.<\/p>\n

All that aside, it\u2019s a fun movie.\u00a0 The scientific intelligence, megalomania and irritable persona of the Invisible Man is juxtaposed against the plodding mediocrity, skeptical common sense and parochial outlook of the English villagers and local constables who are dumbfounded and unbelieving as to the true cause of the strange goings on.\u00a0 Whenever they declare the inexplicable events a hoax the Invisible Man steps in and gives them a painful (and sometimes fatal) object lesson in his reality.<\/p>\n

In the thick of these goings on is my favorite supporting character Una O\u2019Connor as the Innkeeper\u2019s wife.\u00a0 She is a wonderfully shrewish landlady whose suspicious and unkind treatment of the Invisible Man throws him off the deep end.\u00a0 She possesses the most remarkable shrieking scream ever recorded on film.\u00a0 She is a national treasure of sorts.\u00a0 And as a tie-in she plays Dr. Frankenstein\u2019s housekeeper in \u201cThe Bride of Frankenstein,\u201d another movie where she chews up the scenery and shrieks a blue streak.<\/p>\n

Of course, by the end of the movie and after murdering so many innocent people, the Invisible Man has lost almost all of the audience\u2019s sympathy so that it seems just that he should pay the price for his crimes. \u00a0But he is allowed the touching death scene where he regains his humanity and seemingly his sanity.<\/p>\n

So, to reiterate, this is not a monster movie but there is a Mad Scientist and several of our old friends from earlier Universal Monster Movies do show up.\u00a0 It\u2019s basically a tour de force for Claude Rains (or rather his voice). I give it my seal of approval.\u00a0 Good stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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