Bad Movie Review: The Amazing Transparent Man

What you can't see will kill you! We review bad invisible man movie… The Amazing Transparent Man (1960).

Summary: The notorious safecracker Joey Faust escapes from the state prison and Laura Matson drives the getaway car. They head to an isolated farm where the deranged Major Paul Krenner has a laboratory. He has abducted the daughter of Dr. Peter Ulof to force the scientist to develop a technique to create an invisible army. Paul plans to sell the army for a large amount to any government and now he needs radium to proceed the research. Paul and his partners Laura and Julian force Joey to be submitted to the experimental treatment. Then he breaks in a facility and robs the radium. Joey convinces Laura to go with him to the city to heist the National Bank, but he is surprised by an unexpected side effect and becomes visible. What will happen to Joey Faust?

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Written and presented by Robin Bailes @robinbailes
Directed and Edited by Graham Trelfer
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[michaeldenney]

Can you pin *this* comment so people know that I am the last viewer...at this very moment? ;)

[StanleyRunk]

Just a few days ago I had asked a coworker if he had ever seen The Invisible Man. He said he had and I replied, “How???”

[andrewparsons]

Hollow Man, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, and I genuinely like the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (blasphemy, I know) which has a pretty good Invisible Man character (although not as over-the-top evil/amusing as the one from the comics).

I was about to recommend awful invisible dinosaur movie 'Sound of Horror' as review fodder, then saw you'd already done it. In fact, it's one of your earliest reviews... rather odd to see Robin get angrily worked up over the bad movie he's reviewing... Oh well, there's still plenty of bad movies out you haven't reviewed yet.

[warheadrecordsaus]

Invisible Man Returns with Vincent Price is my favorite invisible person film apart from James Whales original

[buzzawuzza]

They meddled in things man should best leave alone!!! Bwaa-ha-ha! Radiation is the root of all B-movie evil! I saw this one years ago and had almost recovered when you guys reviewed it! Keep posting, I love it!

[colleencrouch]

The description of the invisibility machine sounds rather like an old ad for a cigarette filter!

[connorbrennan]

One of my favorite invisible stories is Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man. A comedic remake of The Invisible Man Returns, it's filled to the brim with boxing gags, although my favorite scene is when the psychiatrist tries to get Costello to sleep, but fails.

[kali]

Gotta admit, the invisibility effect is pretty good. Of course, Krenner is an idiot for not realizing a guy like Faust will take advantage of it for his OWN purposes....

5:03 This line is still kinda dumb, though....

"What would you do?" Damned if I know, Doc!

[LolliPop]

To be fair, I think the point of the petting is that the animal makes noises (which I think you can hear on the soundtrack). Of course a REAL way to prove it is to let the OTHER guy pet the animal. Also, is this Ullov guy an early role for Jerry Stiller?

[Jeffrey]

Dark Corners, it is amazing - - that with the exception of of your last posting, I have seen nearly all the old schlocky B movies you have reviewed thus far

[danielcharland]

I seem to remember this children's picture book about a Canadian moose who gets an owl to make him invisible so he can cross the border and rescue his female moose crush from New York where a hunter has held her captive. Who thinks that makes a more interesting story than this movie?

[AmityvilleFan]

Now I wonder: if he takes off his invisible clothes, will he be partialy visible?

[martinradcliffe]

I can't help but find movies like this to be rather entertaining- at least they're usually fairly short.

[mariakelly]

This sounds like a twisted episode of Classic Mission Impossible.

[josiahreynolds]

Could you review Vahsi Kahn (Turkish Rambo)? Loved the vid btw 👍

[skylx]

A film's lack of creativity, talent or orginality can count as invisible right?

Okay then I'll have to go with the Eureka episode "Sight Unseen".

[TroyFullwood]

I like how obvious it is the scientist was struggling bad with the line explaining the science XD

[robertstuart]

I love this movie. I've watched it at least a dozen times. Not sure why I like it, but I do! :)

[RavenHouseMystery]

"A German scientist that he keeps in his attic." Classic Robin comment there. Look forward to picking up Robin's Invisible Man book as well.

Let's see, my three favorite Invisible Man films, not counting the James Whale classic:
1. ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE INVISIBLE MAN (1951) - In some ways, it's even funnier than when they met Frankenstein.
2. HOLLOW MAN (2000) - The no-holds-barred R-rated Invisible Man tale that James Whale couldn't do in 1933.
3. NOW YOU SEE HIM, NOW YOU DON'T (1972) - Family friendly fun with college student Kurt Russell discovering an invisibility spray.

[tskmaster]

This is the sort of movie where the villain got hit with the ray at the climax but in addition to making him invisible at will, it also makes him intangible.
No wait, I'm thinking of Pink Panther Strikes Again. This movie should have been Pink Panther Strikes Again.