Review of Terror Is a Man (1959) by Peter H — 19 Oct 2008
This was actually a surprise for me. I love old B films, but I have come to expect little from them, and yet this movie, despite the usual formula pieces, offered a much better showing than is to be assumed.
One has to laugh at the fact that a bell chimes in the movie to warn viewers of a gruesome scene (an operation that is old hat for shows like ER or even Scrubs today), and the monster's transformation is hard to believe, but the interactions between the characters does not just fall into the typical hum-drum of canned lines as one might expect.
There is actually some believability to the thoughts and frustrations of those on screen, and the mad scientist feels more like a normal human than a man from a psych ward. The story also moves along nicely, and the material that is not directly related to the monster actually has the feeling as if you have walked into the middle of people's lives, instead of a neatly wrapped episodic event.
A decent tale for old science fiction.
This review of Terror Is a Man (1959) was written by Peter H on 19 Oct 2008.
Terror Is a Man has generally received negative reviews.
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