Review of Indestructible Man (1956) by Tim S — 11 Sep 2012

Poor Lon Chaney Jr. I always felt sorry for him because after the success of the Universal monster movies he could never seem to find material to keep him on the path of the same success. Sure there were a few hits here and there, but none that really measure up to say The Wolfman.

Indestructable Man is one of his more forgotten films, and I can easily see why. It's one of those late fifties sci-fi B movies with a plot full of no logic at all and effects which were mostly standard because they were so cheap to produce.

The story itself has been used many times in different decades, but its pretty much the same everytime: bad guy dies, bad guy is brought back to life, bad guy reeks havoc on those who wronged him. Pretty standard stuff really.

Thankfully we have the crew at Mystery Science Theater 3000 to make things a little less boring.