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Man-Made Monster (1941)

Horror | 59 minutes
2,68 19 votes

Genre: Horror / Scifi

Duration: 59 minuten

Alternative title: Atomic Monster

Country: United States

Directed by: George Waggner

Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Lionel Atwill and Anne Nagel

IMDb score: 6,1 (2.116)

Releasedate: 28 March 1941

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Man-Made Monster plot

"The most amazing monster the world has ever known."

dr. Rigas conducts strange experiments on living things in his lab and needs a human guinea pig for his latest experiment. His eye falls on the attractive Dan McCormick and with an excuse Rigas lures him into his lab, where he turns McCormick into a monster.

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clubsport

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Indeed a mediocre film but still somewhat entertaining, still enjoyable for the enthusiast

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Roger Thornhill

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Actually, half-half a variation on Frankenstein, with the ever-sad-looking Lon Chaney in the Boris Karloff role and the lugubrious Lionel Atwill as the mad or at least megalomaniac scientist, and when I see "the electric man" walking around like Dracula with a fainted wench in his arms, I can understand how this was originally intended to be a project for Bela and Boris. Like many Universal horrors from this period, this one barely rises above B-movie status in terms of plot and cast, but thanks to the atmosphere, camerawork and pacing (and of course that starkly realistic crackle of those electrical bolts from one obscure device to the ominous next) there is still a lot to enjoy for the die-hard fan, and moreover, this film paved the way for the director and semi-star to make The Wolf Man, which is worth seeing for the cast alone (Claude Rains, Lon Chaney Jr, Bela Lugosi, Ralph Bellamy, Warren William, Maria Ouspenskaya…).

It's funny, by the way, that the first two words on the film poster are separated by a hyphen, because the film itself has the title without a hyphen, and then you get the ambiguity that the title can mean not only "a monster created by man" but also "man made a monster!" Or is that too much of a stretch?

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