Man-Made Monster

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CodyZamboni Lon Chaney gives an empathetic perfromance, and the film features nice old school electrical fx, but it's not enough to save this movie. The slow pacing at the beginning, and too many unecessary dog scenes, torpedo any build up of suspense. Film does get better in last half hour, but too little , too late. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 09/05/23 Full Review Steve D Pure cheese, no logic. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 04/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Man Made Monster is the picture that launched Chaney Jr. as a horror starâ??and the film that served as the template for the assembly-line horrors that marked Universalâ??s 1940s releases. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Chaney and Atwill are excellent, the plot (basically a derivation of the Frankenstein mythos) is fun, and it moves at a quick pace, cramming in all kinds of sordid and pseudoscience-y elements into a 68 minute package. Not one of Universal's more well-known genre entries, but it gets the job done. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Enjoyable Monster Flick!! Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Short and sweet. This Universal creeper from the early forties is surprisingly powerful, particularly because of a tremendous little performance by Lon Chaney, Jr. In it, he does what he would eventually be most famous for doing in 'The Wolfman' that same year: he portrayed a man fallen to monstrous circumstances rather than just playing the straight creature. In fact, though the film's premise comes from his eventual turning into an electrical monster, most of Chaney's screen time revolves around simple human scenes. The finale is made all the more bitter because of the tender way he looks at the woman he is clearly in love with, June Lawrence (played by Anne Nagel). The story resists giving him that love in favor of a much more tragic plot, one that avoids giving the love triangle too much attention and instead hints at it with subtle asides and gestures. This script is actually quite good for a B movie, and there are some terrific dialogue sequences. I was also taken aback by the film's special effects, which are effective and chilling. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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