Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

hwg1957-102-265704 A man on death row vows revenge on the men who have set him up and vows vengeance from beyond the grave. Fortunately after he is executed a scientist obtains his corpse (somehow) and pumps him full of electricity and he comes back to life to wreak his avowed mission of death as the Indestructible Man. So he kills some people before being fried in a power plant after dodging the police and being shot a lot of times. The Indestructible Man is played by Lon Chaney Jnr. who I would like to say gives an electric performance but no, he is rather flat, lumbering around and throwing his victims off high places.One of those places is the much filmed Bradbury Building in Los Angeles. The location shooting around Los Angeles is probably the best thing about the film as otherwise the story, acting and direction are mundane. After being revived Lon has no dialogue as his vocal chords have been zapped during the process (!) which doesn't matter as from the start of the film the story is related (in hilarious detail) continually in voice-over by Lt. Dick Chasen of the police force.Marian Carr is very cute and mention must go to Marjorie Stapp who plays 'Hysterical Young Woman' and Madge Cleveland who plays 'Screaming Woman.' Indeed the film is billed as "The scream that shocks the screen with 300,000 volts of horror! Inhuman! Invincible! Inescapable!" That's incorrect,

thejcowboy22 I don't know if the original script was written with Lon Chaney Jr. talking throughout the entire story but there were slight changes made before the movie. Despite Lon's addition to alcohol he was constantly raising awareness to the deaf community in and around Los Angeles. Lon must have felt that playing a mute in this movie would make the picture more enjoyable to the hearing impaired public. Facial gestures and physical emotions Lon learned from his Father a generation ago were incorporated into this science fiction /revenge thriller. Despite the sappy acting of Max Showalter(Casey Adams),the story had a constant flow which kept you interested in the outcome of the Butcher's revenge on his crooked partners.Lon Chaney's performance makes you empathize with his predicament without the spoken word. An alternative style chosen by Chaney Jr. which I'm sure would make his Father proud.

arfdawg-1 Very low budget B picture with Lon Chaney Jr. Filmed not so much like a horror film, but as a film noir with a twist.It's actually a decent story and is rather well played out, considering the budget.Chaney over acts and does some crazy mugging and sometimes the closeups don't match up.It's almost like an ED direction.Still, it's easy to forgive because you can get into the story.Here's the plot"Butcher" Benton goes to his death in the state prison, cursing the three men who double-crossed him following an armored-car hold-up; "Squeamy" Ellis, Joe Marcelli and Paul Lowe, his attorney and leader of the gang. He vows to return and kill them and dies without revealing the location of the stolen money. Detective Chasen is determined to keep working on the case until the stolen loot is recovered. Benton's body is taken to Professor Bradshaw and his assistant for experimentation, and they manage to restore him to life, making him practically indestructible in the process. He takes off after the three men, getting rid of everybody who stands in his way. He is impervious to police bullets. He kills Ellis and Marcelli, while Lowe seeks police protection. Benton takes to the sewers to recover the hidden loot and the police are powerless to stop him.

Red-Barracuda A criminal is left to take all the blame for an armed robbery. His cohorts leave him in the lurch and he is subsequently sent to the electric chair. Before this he swears that he will have vengeance. Well, luckily for him his dead body winds up in a scientists lab where an experimental procedure brings his corpse back to life. He is now The Indestructible Man!This is in many ways an Americanized version of Frankenstein. Although in film terms it is quite unusual in that it merges several genres equally - science fiction and horror were regularly combined in the 50's but it is very rare for them to be also combined with a hard-boiled police procedural narrative. And that is essentially the most notable thing about this movie. Although maybe that's the problem as it isn't really one thing nor another. By spreading itself thin it doesn't really make much of an impact anywhere. Still, it's not terrible and it does have one or two amusing moments.