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The Invisible Woman (1940)

"You know, if more women were invisible, life would be much less complicated."

"And much less interesting."

#the invisible woman #Invisiblemanathon #1940 #Universal monster cycle #a. edward sutherland #Virginia Bruce #John Barrymore #John Howard #Charles Ruggles #Oskar Homolka #Edward Brophy #Donald MacBride #Margaret Hamilton #Shemp Howard #Anne Nagel #Kathryn Adams #Maria Montez #Charles Lane #Mary Gordon #Thurston Hall #Curt Siodmak #it would have been real fun to have a real horror treatment of a gender flipped invisible man plot; this isn't that. but what it is is very #cute! a screwball 40s romantic comedy that's only peripherally pretending to be a sci fi movie. it's dumb and it's hokey and it's pure #silly schmaltz from start to end. And it's cute! Very very cute. This is also the first film in the series to be consciously horny; a Lot #is made of the fact that Virginia Bruce is (gasp! horror!) actually naked whenever we can't see her; there's also a long scene of her #putting on her stockings while invisible (a scene whose intense horniness is matched only by its special effects wizadry)#Bruce is fantastic tho in a truly unhinged and manic kind of way;#during the chaos of the final showdowns and fights she ends up firing a machine gun at her own fiancé simply to ensure he puts enough #work into rescuing her (she absolutely doesn't need rescuing which is cool but he doesnt know that)#fun and dumb and strangely sweet like all the best universal movies

The Invisible Man (1933)

"We'll begin with a reign of terror: a few murders here and there, murders of great men, murders of little men - well, just to show we make no distinction. I might even wreck a train or two... just these fingers around a signalman's throat, that's all."

#the invisible man #Invisiblemanathon #films i done watched #Universal monster cycle #james whale #h. g. wells #claude rains #gloria stuart #William Harrigan #henry travers #Una O'connor #Forrester Harvey #E.E. Clive #holmes herbert #Dudley Digges #Harry Stubbs #Donald Stuart #Merle Tottenham #Frankenstein and Dracula might have had the greater impact on the pop culture landscape (and receive the critical acclaim into the bargain)#but my heart has always belonged to Universal's two other monster boys: the wolf man with all his angst and pain and emotional resonance #and Griffin the invisible douchebag; the polar opposite of Lon Chaney's Larry Talbot. Of all the monster cycle this is the film that most #revels in the horrific: Whale delights in Griffin's antisocial activities and murderous impulses and this probably has the highest body #count of any of the original cycle (particularly if we're including the disasters Griff is responsible for). Rains is wonderfully mercurial #in the title role as he cycles madly between irrational fury and gleefully sadistic. it's an impressively memorable performance given that #we see his face for a matter of seconds. of course another reason for that is the astonishing fx work (genuinely astonishing how good they #look nearly 90 years later). The bandage and dark glasses combo is rightfully iconic but that first look at the hollow space where his head #should be is still after all these years a moment of tingling uncanny horror...

The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

"So you just let the lady walk out and ride away, eh?"

"I had nothing to hold Miss Manson on, sir; I had no instructions about her - and her looking so ill, sir..."

"Tewksbury, you're a credit to the force. You used brains. Watch her but don't scare her too much, that's our game. We can't expect to catch the quarry if we shut up the bait."

#The Invisible Man Returns #Invisiblemanathon #Universal monster cycle #films i done watched #vincent price #cedric hardwicke #Nan grey #John Sutton #Cecil Kellaway #alan napier #Forrester Harvey #Billy Bevan #Mary Gordon #Frank Hagney #Ivan F. Simpson #David Thursby #joe may #curt siodmak #Lester Cole #1940 #you'd be forgiven for thinking that invisible man plus Vincent price would equal a sequel that outdoes its predecessor.. sadly that isn't #quite the case. there are some very good things about this film: i like how it flips the script on the first film so that our invisible #lead is now the good guy not the bad guy (the universal films would continue to flip flop on this idea) and of course Price is great albeit #unseen for the majority of the film. There are moments where he gets to play 'close to losing his mind' and inevitably these are the #highlights of the film. elsewhere the focus is too much on Price's heroic dr friend trying to reverse the process and not enough on VP #going nuts. The effects are once again ingenious and astonishingly good even by today's standards. Where it falls down slightly is in #trying to emulate the dark humour of the original: something gets lost along the way and the middle section of the film is just a little #too silly without the undercurrent of threat that Rains brought to the role. Still it has a good start and finish what more can a film ask #except maybe a strong middle too....

The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)

"I've warned you fairly. I've never tried this on a human being."

"Get on with it, I've got nothing to lose. Now, if you could just make me like that dog-"

"I think I can. And if I can't..."

"Have you up for malpractice, is that it?"

"No. Murder. Are you ready?"

#The Invisible Man's Revenge #Invisiblemanathon #Universal monster cycle #Ford Beebe #films i done watched #Bertram Millhauser #Jon Hall #Leon Errol #John Carradine #Alan Curtis #Evelyn Ankers #Gale Sondergaard #Lester Matthews #Halliwell Hobbes #Leyland Hodgson #Doris Lloyd #Ian Wolfe #Billy Bevan #confusion about why Jon Hall of all people got to return as an Invisible Something after the lackluster Agent film turns to bafflement upon #realising that he isn't even playing the same character; just a totally different guy who also gets mixed up in some Invisible Shenanigans #even more confusingly he is a Griffin (like Agent and Man and Returns) but the invisibility aspect of the story comes from elsewhere #entirely: John Carradine in a scene stealing role as eccentric professor and dog lover. his whole schtick is that he's made his dog #invisible so that it...feels less self conscious about being a mongrel? that can't be right... and yet. for all the weird choices this one #is actually pretty fun. Hall is considerably better now that he gets to go crazy and evil and isn't restricted to delivering wartime chest #thumping about duty and patriotism. It is a little slow and it takes far too long for anyone to actually go invisible but as ever #the effects are pretty cool and this does have that 'avenging pet' trope which im unreasonably fond of #the last of the true Universal Invisible canon with just the Abbott and Costello team up to go...wish me luck

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)

"He was standing right here! And then I shook hands with him - his hand was gone. Then I went to speak to him - his head was gone. Then he took off his shirt - his body was gone! He took off his pants - his legs were gone! And then he spoke to me."

"Yeah?"

"I was gone."

#Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man #Invisiblemanathon #abbott and costello #american cinema #Universal monster cycle #1951 #Charles Lamont #Bud Abbott #Lou Costello #Nancy Guild #Arthur Franz #Adele Jergens #Sheldon Leonard #William Frawley #Gavin Muir #Walter F. Appler #John Daheim #Sam Balter #Howard Snyder #Robert Lees #Frederic I. Rinaldo #Hugh Wedlock Jr.#John Grant #a funny way to close the series but then the Invisible Filmography has touched on just about every genre so far‚ so why not slapstick?#plus Lou and Bud were doing the rounds of the Universal monster roster; it was only a matter of time #actually this is pretty fun. sure it's lightweight and breezy but it's also actually pretty funny. there's a couple of great sight gags #and as ever the visual fx are impressively executed. the actual plot (involving mobsters and fixing boxing matches) doesn't #bear much scrutiny‚ but as a backdrop against which some seasoned comics can ply their brand of silliness it's pretty good going #highlights include an extended boxing match inc. invisible help and a beautifully absurd moment in which Lou attempts to hide the invisible #man by draping a cloth over him and pretending he's a table. you just don't see that every day

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