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BradWesley123's Movie Screenshots: Vol. 24 (50 movies items)" Director: James Whale Cinematographer: Arthur Edeson Other Images "
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Slant's 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time (100 movies items)"James Whale’s anarchically playful The Invisible Man is an outlier among Universal’s line of classic monster movies. More of an inventive mash-up of black comedy and sci-fi than true horror, the film is an incendiary piece of speculative fiction that counterbalances its cautionary-tale tropes by perpetually reveling in the chaos its megalomaniacal protagonist stirs up, even as his intensifying violent impulses shift from harmlessly prankish to straight-up lethal. This pervasive sense of mora"
“A remarkable cinematic achievement rightfully categorised as a horror classic, albeit with a discernible, measured thread of comic verve and goofy humour. Demonstrating groundbreaking visual effects and showcasing an even stranger and amoral antagonist than Frankenstein's monster, the story addresses the folly of man in terms of harnessing intellectual dominion and notoriety through scientific achievement. A document of its time that continues to attract contemporary viewership on the basis of its suspenseful, perfectly condensed examination of a scientist driven mad in the pursuit of power and recognition for his perceived genius, so much so that he is prepared to transform himself into a monster. "The Invisible Man" is a scintillating and superlative standout in the revered canon of Univ” read more
2019 Movie Journal
Elokuvapäiväkirja (48 movies items)"Claude Rains on 99 prosenttia elokuvasta näkymätön, mikä kismittää, sillä mielestäni hänellä on mitä mainioimmat kasvonpiirteet. Nyt oli tyytyminen ääneen.(26.4)"
100 Greatest Golden Age Hollywood Films (100 movies items)"By 1933, English director James Whale was already a name synonymous with Hollywood horror, having cemented his reputation with the Boris Karloff vehicles 'Frankenstein' and 'The Old Dark House'. With his adaptation of H.G. Wells' science fiction novel 'The Invisible Man', Whale added another classic horror film to the canon. 'The Invisible Man' is also notable for providing the extraordinary Claude Rains with his first major screen role. Rains would later become known as one of Hollywood's fines"
