Sci-Fi Classic Review: THE INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS (1940)
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- čas přidán 4. 08. 2024
- This immediate sequel to the Claude Raines classic is a good companion piece, with a young Vincent Price doing a decent job standing in as the new Universal monster.
If you're looking for a "review" in the traditional sense, then let me just say I love this movie. This video, however, is a "review" in the literal sense (using the Miriam-Webster definition "a retrospective view or survey"), in that I'm going over the history of the film and its place in sci-fi cinema history.
In other words, please stop commenting on how my videos aren't what you consider "reviews."
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00:00 Intro
01:38 Synopsis
02:11 Production background
04:20 Casting & Filming
08:08 Release & Legacy
08:58 Opinion & Analysis
11:01 Outro
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Definitely the best of the sequels and maybe even top 10 of the classic Universal horror cycle.
ahh this explains why they used Price at the end of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein!
I always thought "Returns" was an underrated sequel. Claude Rains and Vincent Price each bring something when it comes to the role and in my opinion they're equal. Fantastic review as always! I never knew that Alfred was in this lol
Love the Universal sequels. Even with the continuity ... glitches (this being well before the days of Internet Continuity Cops), it's fun to see a Cinematic Universe in the days before Cinematic Universes.
I was amused by the comment about TOWER OF LONDON being considered a horror film if you looked at it a certain way. On the one hand, it's RICHARD III without the Shakespeare, but it does have Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Vincent Price, and a torture rack, so I guess it counts, even if it does so in a peripheral fashion. Certainly, Universal has tended to market it as such, as far back as the VHS days, packaging it with the rest of their Universal Horror series (Karloff!). Mr. Price would graduate from his role here, as the Duke of Clarence, to the role of Richard III himself in another TOWER OF LONDON, for Roger Corman.
What's so great about your channel is that I'm always learning something man! I haven't seen any of these Invisible Man movies apart from the 2020 one so it's interesting hearing about it all from someone who's so passionate about all this stuff. Great use of music here too btw, it's subtle enough and far from overdone but it's effective!
I'd watch anything Cecil Kellaway was in. Always a distinct pleasure.
The Tom Hardy resemblance you see in Vincent Price is something that escapes me. It's funny, Price is a decent looking fellow to me, but Hardy is much more appealing; I found him attractive when I first saw him on a 2009 PBS miniseries of Wuthering Heights.
Would you consider doing 'Mad Monster Party?' I know I'm not the only boomer who has fond memories of it.
Okay, sure! I'm adding it to my list now.
I love this sequel (along with the other one: 'Invisible Agent'). So good to see (or hear?) an early performance by the one only Vincent Price.
May I ask your opinion about the recent reboot of The Invisible Man? I thinks it's pretty great.
It is pretty great. A bit more intense than I expected, but it is impressively well-made!
Honestly i like how the invisible man can either be good or bad it depends on the person.
So the scene where Vincent Price tortures Alan Napier that’s pretty much like a egghead torturing Alfred
It's a good thing this movie was successful and pushed the Universal Monster franchises into overdrive, or you might have had to find another gig! Looking forward to the extraordinary expedition 😊
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The original "The Invisible Man" is one of my favorite Golden Age horror films. Claude Rains made an extremely likable horror character.
An overlooked sequel for sure, price was (of course) a great replacement for Raines perfect performance
I must say, Vincent price was a swell looking man back his younger days
I watch the kill count on the Invisible Man I couldn't help but wait for the Invisible Man returns so I guess this is alternative
Radcliffe seemed to be an early anti-hero in film history.
Rains was amazing, of course, but Price....Price could make any movie pure FUN!
Absolutely true!
I must see Vincent Price walked rather swell when he was younger and I’m surprised at the invisible Man returns he doesn’t have that voice yet
Egghead from Batman 66 is in this movie I keep expecting to make egg jokes
Egg jokes are too easy. Over easy, you might say.
@@TheUnapologeticGeek You know why I said that Vincent Price is in this movie
I think Tim Burton saw this movie
(sigh) ok i will say this once more. Jack Napier is NOT named after Napier the actor. the name Jack Napier comes from the term jack-a-naps.
I don’t know why you take a bit of trivia personally, but I’ve double checked. I can find several credible sources that state Napier was taken from the actor’s name and not one credible source arguing for “Jack-a-napes” as the origin of the name. It’s possible, I suppose, that both could be true, but unless you can cite me a good source, I stand by my data.
@@TheUnapologeticGeek Though Wikipedia states that the name is a reference tio Alan Napier, it also states, up front, that it is a play on Jackanapes. Having seen the film when it came out, those of us who saw it at the time kind of groaned at the name, writing it off as an annoying attempt at cleverness by the scriptwriter.
Vincent price.......nuff said.
Yeah this movie is worth it because Vincent Price