I wasn't expecting much when started watching this and it didn't really surprise me at all. Its a cheezy and clichèd 40s monster movie with Lon Chaney Jr. playing a guy who becomes immune to electricity and eventually a mindless thug controlled by a mad scientist.
It offers some of the goodness that people are looking for in this type of films. Fog mist thunder and shots of forests and moors in the moonlight and awesome looking pseudo scientific gadgets. The fact that it uses the original wolfman score is also a neat bonus.
When it comes to plot is pretty basic, and it also tries a little bit to go for that tragic ending like wolfman did but it doesn't go all the way even though its essentially the same thing. Its overall a very mediocre and unmemorable monster movie with things that have been done over and over again before it and since but it still succeeds in what its trying to do.
You wanna watch a 40s monster movie? Hell yeah I do. Let's roll the picture.
It offers some of the goodness that people are looking for in this type of films. Fog mist thunder and shots of forests and moors in the moonlight and awesome looking pseudo scientific gadgets. The fact that it uses the original wolfman score is also a neat bonus.
When it comes to plot is pretty basic, and it also tries a little bit to go for that tragic ending like wolfman did but it doesn't go all the way even though its essentially the same thing. Its overall a very mediocre and unmemorable monster movie with things that have been done over and over again before it and since but it still succeeds in what its trying to do.
You wanna watch a 40s monster movie? Hell yeah I do. Let's roll the picture.