The Invisible Man
|
List Price: Our Price: $8.18 You Save: $6.76 (45%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $7.90 (click here) Category: DVD See more DVD releases |
|---|
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
Movie Reviews of The Invisible Man
Movie Review: The quality is quite visible
Summary: 4 Stars
A maverick researcher (Claude Rains) uses an invisibility drug on himself, then goes into hiding while attempting to develop an antidote. Unbeknownst to himself, the drug also induces megalomania, and before long he will become the terror of the English countryside.
Although it may have been a severe miscalculation for Jack Griffin to subject himself to the drug before he had a countermeasure, there are no miscalculations on the part of director James Whale, who is responsible for some of the very best vintage Universal horror pictures. The special effects are surprisingly good for the era and present no bar to enjoyment. The script, though it departs significantly from the H.G. Wells source material, is intelligent. No review of this film is complete without praise for Rains, who appears only at the very end and only for a moment, but whose superb vocal performance and physical expression, while hidden under bandages, presents a fully realized character.
Movie Review: An Universal movie monster that you must see!
Summary: 4 Stars
'Invisible Man, The' is one of the most sucessful Universal monster movies of the thirties, along with 'Frankstein' and 'Dracula'. A superior adaptation of a H.G. Welles novel, the movie has humour, suspense and a excelent development of the story that made this movie actual for all ages. Claude Rains (the actor that made 'Phantom of the Opera) gives life to Jack Griffin, a young scientist that discover a strange formula to turn himself invisible and goes crazy along the process. The movie has some great scenes,like the tricks that Griffin plays with the people of a little village and the persecutions of the police, always confused by the inteligent and unusual invisible enemy. Great special effects for the time makes the movies even more valuable and Rains gives a strong and convincible performance, although all the time 'invisible' for the public.
Movie Review: 3 stars out of 4
Summary: 4 Stars
The Bottom Line:
The best Universal horror picture, for my money, after Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man benefits from special effects whose seams still aren't showing, a wickedly sinister performance by Rains in the lead (even if we hardly ever see him) and an intelligence to the screenplay missing in many contemporary horror films; you'll probably like it even if this type of film usually isn't your cup of tea.
Movie Review: the invisible man
Summary: 4 Stars
this was one of my favorite horror movies as a kid.
it still holds up well. it is a great addition to
any classic horror collection. the performance by
Claude Rains is chilling and there is great humor in the
movie. for its time, the special effects are amazing.
nice quality on DVD too.
Movie Review: DVD buyers beware!!!
Summary: 3 Stars
The DVD release of THE INVISIBLE MAN has one scene that is noticeably different from the VHS and LD releases. In that scene Kemp is listening to the radio. What's playing on the radio in the VHS and LD versions (and, presumably, in the original 1933 release prints) is a vintage jazz tune typical of the era. For the DVD release MCA or Universal apparently no longer had the rights to that tune (and, also apparently, did not try to re-acquire the rights, even though it probably wouldn't have been too much trouble). Thus in the DVD release "new" music was substituted, so now Kemp is listening to a digital piano recording of "Hearts and Flowers"!