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The Invisible Man

1933

James Whale

Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers ...

7.2

5,616

Sci-Fi. Thriller. Horror. Mystery. Comedy With THE INVISIBLE MAN (the first film in a series), James Whale (FRANKENSTEIN) provides another stylish, blackly comic entry in the popular Universal horror cycle of the 1930s. When a mysterious man, face wrapped in bandages and wearing dark goggles, arrives in a small English village one snowy night, things start to go awry. Jack Griffin (Claude Rains), a chemist who has discovered an invisibility formula, wants desperately to find ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Mordaunt Hall The New York Times	"Photographic magic abounds in the production (...) The story makes such superb cinematic material that one wonders that Hollywood did not film it sooner."
		Kim Newman Empire	"If you set aside 'Frankenstein' as more of a horror film and 'King Kong' as a fantasy, 'The Invisible Man' is the first truly great American science fiction film (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Barbara Shulgasser-Parker Common Sense Media	"[It] is a curiosity, an engaging though one-note, 71-minute drama (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Geoff Andrew Time Out	"Engrossing adaptation of HG Wells' tale (...) Rains, with his clear, sensitively inflected voice, was lucky: it made him a star."

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