Your Favorite Invisible Man movie

A & C Meet the Invisible Man. I've always liked Arthur Franz.

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Well, let's see. The James Whale/Claude Rains original first, of course, and Vincent Price's The Invisible Man Returns not far behind. Both just lovely.

I agree that Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man is one of the very best of the series (the boxing match being unforgettable), but I still feel more drawn to the earlier films. A&CMIM makes an unbeatable Grand Finale to the series, though.

I was pleasantly surprised when I first saw Invisible Agent. I wanted my Invisible Man to remain in the otherworldly realm of the first two films and not be dragged into the Fightin' Forties. But this turned out to be a "B" movie with "A" ambitions, and almost everything about it works. It has its share of thrills...it has Peter Lorre and Sir Cedric Hardwicke and bits of Noir...and it has a delightful little witty romantic comedy with Ilona Massey (Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man) which feels like the director was studying Ernest Lubitsch. The only debit might be the wooden voice of Jon Hall as our Invisible Hero.

Then there's The Invisible Man's Revenge. Rather a missed opportunity, but a fun one nonethelesss. It's the script that's weak, along with the return of the unenthusiastic Jon Hall. What especially frustrates me is the complete disregard for continuity with the earlier stories -- and for no good reason. Contrariwise, I love the Gothic mood, Old Dark House, John Carradine and (especially) Gale Sondergaard. These aspects alone are enough to make it a movie I relish.

I'm not quite sure how to place The Invisible Woman. It doesn't quite feel part of the series, although it's quite a good comedy. Since I still enjoy double-features, I always program this next-to-last as a warm-up to Bud and Lou.

Altogether a very strong series...perhaps the most unified in overall quality of the Universal Monsters.

Doctor Mabuse, Evil Genius, King of Crime

actually the 1992 chevy chase movie is great, but perhaps i sound like a boob cause we only count direct sequels? and perhaps that doesn't count since it would go under comedy? the abbott and costello flicks are going over better than i thought, i always skip them but i'm beginning to think i should check them out now, but there sure are many "invisible" movies... i listened to the radio dramatization of this (invisible man on radio sort of makes sense, right? though they all were invisible 😀) from big finish productions starring john hurt, i had just seen him in "king ralph" and you can hear by the voice it's been decades, my problem with the radio version is how jolly and sociable he seemed at the beginning entering the hotel, kind of took the mystery away, but i guess it was perhaps needed to suit audio only, and then hitting on a seventeen year old named millie while hurt, like i mentioned, here sounds like a very much older fella, and i don't recall her being in the classic movie, as well as an off putting cat story that made me almost push the stop button, it ran for two hours leaving space for more bits, i don't recall the rain scene in the classic movie but the chevy chase version, after time i got really into it and it was an intense interpretation with great music and atmospheric and another way of experiencing it.



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flat football on the ground was i,
in front weather map you filled air heart jump high,
onto your body felt like spider creep around,
at threads destroy all web,
the fabric itsy bitsy tear away,
i was crawlin around forms n shape,
on your feminine ways till i got out of breath,
she threw her big brown hair i flew away,
exhausted i had to retire on the bench.

Not a movie but I liked the Vincent Ventresca series on SciFi Channel.

The new film just out is the best out of all of them, including the 1933 original