Cortechba Overrated

Cem Lamb This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

BA_Harrison In H.G. Wells' classic story The Invisible Man, the protagonist, a research scientist named Griffin, slowly descends into madness when he is unable to reverse a formula that renders him invisible; in The Invisible Maniac, Professor Kevin Dornwinkle (Noel Peters) is completely off his rocker way before he successfully pulls his disappearing act.After his initial experiments fail, and he is mocked by his peers, Dornwinkle snaps and goes on a murderous rampage, winding up in an asylum for the criminally insane. Six months later, however, he escapes, adopts a new identity, and gets a job as a teacher at a high school (with one helluva lax vetting process for new employees).By day, Dorwinkle teaches physics to a class of obnoxious teenagers, who make life hell for their nutty professor; by night he tries to discover where he went wrong with his previous experiments. Eventually he develops a serum that allows limited periods of invisibility which he uses to spy on girls in the shower and have a little grope every now and then. However, when his class play one trick too many on him, he totally wigs out, injects himself with his formula, traps his unruly pupils in the school, and proceeds to bump them off one by one.Trashy, misogynistic, and completely one of a kind, The Invisible Maniac is a totally bonkers and thoroughly entertaining piece of early 90s schlock that any fan of weird cinema has just got to see. Peters' wonderfully unrestrained performance as Dornwinkle is absolutely perfect, his cartoonish psycho-nerd being everything you could ever want in a mad scientist (his maniacal laugh alone makes this an unmissable film). The supporting cast also do a great job, with Stephanie Blake putting in a particularly memorable turn as the school's nymphomaniac principal, and porn-star Savannah (credited as Shannon Wilsey) as a very sexy blonde student.Besides the endless nudity from a very fine selection of busty babes, and the brilliantly OTT Peters, The Invisible Maniac also offers some terrific scenes of twisted humour and slapstick, with the funniest moments being when an invisible Dornwinkle gets punchy with some jocks: watching the poor actors throwing themselves all over the place and reacting to unseen punches is absolutely hilarious (although, credit where credit's due, they do a pretty convincing job!).On top of all of this craziness, there are also several genuinely disturbing moments which make the film rather chilling at times: Dornwinkle's night-time visit to one sleeping beauty hints at nastier things that might follow (and is remarkably similar to a scene in Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man, which makes me think that the Dutch director is also a fan of this movie); several women are killed in nasty ways, but only after their breasts are revealed for the viewer's enjoyment; and the surprising ending sees the invisible killer evading capture after blowing a guy's head off with a shotgun!I have no doubt that many people will loathe this film, berating it as unfunny, sexist garbage; those with a love of the absurd and an appreciation of the demented, however, should find The Invisible Maniac to be irresistibly dumb fun from start to finish.

frankfob Saw this late one night on cable. At the time I didn't know that the girl billed as "Shannon Wilsey" was actually porn star Savannah, but she was so beautiful (and got naked so often, thank God) that I actually sat through this brain-rotting drivel. I like cheesy flicks as much as the next guy--more than the next guy, actually--but this was way beyond cheesy and more into rancid. The truly annoying overacting by the mad scientist and the director's, writers' and special effects people's virtually total incompetence detracts from the gratuitous nudity that is the movie's only saving grace. Savannah, before she turned into the plasticized Barbie Doll she became as a porn queen, is really interesting to watch--she's drop-dead gorgeous, bursts into uncontrollable giggling at times, glances off-camera and laughs and just generally seems to be having a really good time, which is more than can be said for the audience. For even though Savannah and her colleagues spend a fair amount of this picture naked, it still can't hide the fact that this is an incredibly stupid, badly made and annoying movie. If you know someone who has it on video, or if it comes on cable some night, check it out, but don't waste your money on a rental.

Michael DeZubiria Take one look at the cover of this movie, and you know right away that you are not about to watch a landmark film. This is cheese filmmaking in every respect, but it does have its moments. Despite the look of utter trash that the movie gives, the story is actually interesting at some points, although it is undeniably pulled along mainly by the cheerleading squads' shower scenes and sex scenes with numerous personality-free boyfriends. The acting is awful and the director did little more than point and shoot, which is why the extensive amount of nudity was needed to keep the audience's attention. In The Nutty Professor, a hopelessly geeky professor discovers a potion that can turn him into a cool and stylish womanizer, whereas in The Invisible Maniac, a mentally damaged professor discovers a potion that can make him invisible, allowing him to spy on (and kill, for some reason) his students. Boring fodder. Don't expect any kind of mental stimulation from this, and prepare yourself for shrill and enormously overdone maniacal laughter which gets real annoying real quick...

emm Here's an interesting little movie that strictly gives the phrase "low budget" a horrible name. Our physics teacher who has about nine kids creates a strange serum that causes "molecular reorganization". Students are hopelessly killed from fake coincidences of submarine sandwiches and flying school supplies. Sounds like a resurrection of classic B-movies from the 50s, right? Nope! It's not an example of high camp fun, which is way, WAY off the mark. A glamorous showcase of breasts and butts ensues our desire for pleasure, opposing the horror that should have had 99.44% more in the first place. Bottom-of-the-barrel entertainment at its best, aided by pints of red blood and dead student bodies. Atrocious movies like this would make the ultimately catastrophic GURU THE MAD MONK (1970) the work of an intelligent genius who has a Master's degree in film production! It's an automatic "F", so rest easy!