Chainsawmidget and the Universal Monsters.

[Rev. Powell]

Ghost of Frankenstein. 

 

Okay, weird thing here.  In Son of Frankenstein, Wolf Frankenstein was married to a woman named Elsa.  In this movie, the other son has a daughter named Elsa.  Kinda bizarre. 

And "Bride of Frankenstein" starred a woman named Elsa.

[M.10rda]

Oh boy, did it ever!     

I don't recall ever watching SON OF... but I've seen GHOST OF..., and although I didn't like it too much, I still liked Bela plenty. Whenever anyone suggests that Bela "wasn't trying" et al, it always makes me admire him a little bit more. I'll take Bela Not Trying over many other actors Trying any day!

[chainsaw midget]

The Invisible Agent


Here we once again stray from the horror and even the monster aspect.  Our Invisible Man is a war hero.  When Nazis and a very wonderful and sadistic Peter Lorre (who actually plays a Japanese man here, yeah, I know...) track down the grandson of the original Invisible Man and threaten his life for the formula, he instead agrees to become the Invisible Man for the US military. 

This is very much a wartime propaganda movie, but it's not a bad one.  Our hero is actually shown to be somewhat bad at his job.  The fact that he can't resist playing pranks on a Nazi leaders or eating right out in the open where he can be seen immediately cause him problems and nearly blow everything.  Likewise, the Nazis seems to be very on the ball and quite competent, which was a rarity back then, even if they do still feel the need to constantly backstab each other. 

And some of the Invisible effects are just great.  Especially the scene where he's in the bath lathering up his invisible body with soap.