I think it is possible that I liked this film even more than I would have because the night before I'd watched the previous installment in the Invisible Man franchise--THE INVISIBLE AGENT. THE INVISIBLE AGENT was such a remarkably bad film that by comparison, THE INVISIBLE MAN'S REVENGE looks brilliant--even though I realize it's just a B-movie and not much more.
The film begins with a maniac escaping from a mental hospital. It seemed that he killed three men in the process and is not about to let himself be captured. While he's psychotic, he also seems reasonably rational at first. Because of this, he's not easy to spot. Plus, some of what he thinks and does makes sense. For example, he tracks down an old business partner to demand his rightful share of a fortune in diamonds. However, the partner blew much of the money due to bad investments and so the maniac demands EVERYTHING--including the partner's daughter! Well, the partner and his wife are naturally aghast and soon throw him out--that is, after they take the partnership paper away from the maniac.
Later, a nice but wacky scientist (Robert Carradine) finds the crazy guy and offers to let him be the first human to try out his invisibility formula. Little does Carradine know that this will unleash a madman's reign of terror. Oddly, this is a reversal of the plot of the original INVISIBLE MAN (1933), as it was the formula that made the man paranoid and murder-hungry.
While the special effects and story aren't nearly of the level of the original INVISIBLE MAN, it is very interesting and worth watching. I do agree with another reviewer who complained that it was hard to like anyone in the film. Making some of the characters a bit more sympathetic might have improved the film a bit. Still, a nice time-passer and a film light-years better than the previous invisible film.
The film begins with a maniac escaping from a mental hospital. It seemed that he killed three men in the process and is not about to let himself be captured. While he's psychotic, he also seems reasonably rational at first. Because of this, he's not easy to spot. Plus, some of what he thinks and does makes sense. For example, he tracks down an old business partner to demand his rightful share of a fortune in diamonds. However, the partner blew much of the money due to bad investments and so the maniac demands EVERYTHING--including the partner's daughter! Well, the partner and his wife are naturally aghast and soon throw him out--that is, after they take the partnership paper away from the maniac.
Later, a nice but wacky scientist (Robert Carradine) finds the crazy guy and offers to let him be the first human to try out his invisibility formula. Little does Carradine know that this will unleash a madman's reign of terror. Oddly, this is a reversal of the plot of the original INVISIBLE MAN (1933), as it was the formula that made the man paranoid and murder-hungry.
While the special effects and story aren't nearly of the level of the original INVISIBLE MAN, it is very interesting and worth watching. I do agree with another reviewer who complained that it was hard to like anyone in the film. Making some of the characters a bit more sympathetic might have improved the film a bit. Still, a nice time-passer and a film light-years better than the previous invisible film.