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The Invisible Man Returns

The Invisible Man Returns

Horror · Science Fiction · 1940

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

Movie details

The Invisible Man Returns

“They hear him! They feel him! But they can't stop him!”

1940 Horror · Science Fiction 1h 21m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.5 / 10

5.5K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

87 %

Tomatometer

TMDB

6.3 / 10

Community rating

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The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

CriticWise case file

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The archetype split

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Joe May

Written by

Curt Siodmak · Lester Cole · Joe May

Cedric Hardwicke

Cedric Hardwicke

Richard Cobb

Vincent Price

Vincent Price

Geoffrey Radcliffe

Nan Grey

Nan Grey

Helen Manson

John Sutton

John Sutton

Dr. Frank Griffin

Cecil Kellaway

Cecil Kellaway

Inspector Sampson

Alan Napier

Alan Napier

Willie Spears

Forrester Harvey

Forrester Harvey

Ben Jenkins

Court is in session

Put The Invisible Man Returns on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.