Happy Thursday, everyone! This week's entry is The Invisible Man Appears, a Japanese addition to the film series from director Nobuo Adachi (with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya, well known for his decades of effects work).
A loose adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel, this actually shares a good bit of the basic idea of Abbot and Costello movie, where criminals are trying to use the invisibility formula for their own crimes. In this case, they want to force the invisible man, a student of the professor who created the formula, to steal a diamond necklace called the Tears of Amour from an actress friend of his.
Of course, it's all complicated by how the invisible man and his fellow student are both in love with the daughter of the professor (and in fact have both proposed), but this movie keeps the essential plot point that the invisibility formula slow drives you insanely violent. So throughout the various theft and romance shenanigans, he's gradually coming close and close to murdering someone.
And THEN at least two people are impersonating the Invisible Man by wearing the head wrappings for their own purposes! This movie has a lot of stuff going on. It's not really one of the fun entries in this so far, but it's well done and acted and worth your time.
It's a relatively cheap rental pretty much everywhere and can also be bought and apparently there's a pretty nice release from Arrow.
Next time: The Invisible Anger (1954), another Japanese release that you can watch here.
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