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The Mad Monster

  • 1942
  • Approved
  • 1 Std. 17 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
3,6/10
2027
IHRE BEWERTUNG
Anne Nagel, Glenn Strange, and George Zucco in The Mad Monster (1942)
Werwolf-HorrorDramaEntsetzenRomanzeScience-Fiction

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories - and exact revenge.A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories - and exact revenge.A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories - and exact revenge.

  • Regie
    • Sam Newfield
  • Drehbuch
    • Fred Myton
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Johnny Downs
    • George Zucco
    • Anne Nagel
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  • IMDb-BEWERTUNG
    3,6/10
    2027
    IHRE BEWERTUNG
    • Regie
      • Sam Newfield
    • Drehbuch
      • Fred Myton
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Johnny Downs
      • George Zucco
      • Anne Nagel
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    • 31Kritische Rezensionen
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    Johnny Downs
    Johnny Downs
    • Tom Gregory
    George Zucco
    George Zucco
    • Dr. Lorenzo Cameron
    Anne Nagel
    Anne Nagel
    • Lenora Cameron
    Glenn Strange
    Glenn Strange
    • Petro
    Sarah Padden
    Sarah Padden
    • Grandmother
    Gordon De Main
    Gordon De Main
    • Professor Fitzgerald
    • (as Gordon DeMain)
    Mae Busch
    Mae Busch
    • Susan
    Reginald Barlow
    Reginald Barlow
    • Professor Warwick
    Robert Strange
    Robert Strange
    • Professor Blaine
    Henry Hall
    Henry Hall
    • Country Doctor
    Ed Cassidy
    Ed Cassidy
    • Father
    • (as Edward Cassidy)
    Eddie Holden
    • Harper
    John Elliott
    John Elliott
    • Professor Hatfield
    Slim Whitaker
    Slim Whitaker
    • Policeman
    • (as Charles Whitaker)
    Gil Patric
    • Lieutenant Detective
    • Regie
      • Sam Newfield
    • Drehbuch
      • Fred Myton
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    4tavm

    The Mad Monster was not a very exciting horror movie

    In writing reviews of werewolf movies I found on YouTube for the next several days, here is one on a production made by the lowest of the Poverty Row studios-PRC. George Zucco is the Mad Scientist wanting to create wolfmen so they can aid in the fight during World War II! But he also wants revenge against his former fellow colleagues at his previous institution. His patient is a mentally challenged farm hand played by Glenn Strange who would later take over the Frankenstein monster role at Universal after Boris Karloff didn't want to do it any longer. Also in tow is Zucco's daughter Anne Nagel who I just reviewed in Man Made Monster. Like in that one, she also falls for a reporter here played by a former Our Ganger from the silent era, Johnny Downs. One notable appearance is that of Mae Busch-formerly a usual Laurel & Hardy antagonist-as Susan who I think was the mother of that little girl who's fate was not good...My verdict: this movie seems to lumber its way through 77 minutes with not much of a music score, too many repetitious lines, and not much action till the end. In fact, part of me felt like sleeping while watching. So on that note, The Mad Monster is worth a look but no more than that.
    7Vampenguin

    Good for what it is

    As far as Mad Scientist B-movies go, this was pretty good. George Zucco steals the screen as always, playing his typical mad doctor role to perfection. A pre-Frankenstein Glenn Strange also throws in a decent performance (for this kind of movie) as the grounds-keeper turned into a Werewolf. If you're into this kind of flick like I am, this is highly recommended. Otherwise, you might as well skip it. Most of the actors suck, the story drags, and it borrows *cough*steals*cough heavily from Universal's 1941 film "The Wolf Man". Actually, I say check this out even if you don't normally enjoy this kind of film, you could be pleasantly surprised!

    7/10
    3mstomaso

    Silly, harmless, early horror sci-fi

    A paranoid scientist creates a wolfman by transfusing wolf blood into a meek, quiet, but very large gardener, in order to prove an hypothesis. So the gardener begins nightly rampages and the scientist tries to use him to reclaim his credentials, but is rebuffed by his former colleagues for tampering with nature. Island of Dr Moreau, Frankenstein and various wolfman films all blended together into a terribly dated, goofy, morality play.

    Though the subject matter is pedantic and unoriginal at best, this film is not too poorly made, and interesting to watch as a representative of horror film making of its time. Like most mad scientist films, this is a weak warning against fooling around with Mother Nature. It doesn't have the power or intellectual challenges of Frankenstein, but it doesn't ever extend its reach anyway. The acting is passable, as is the cinematography, and the film moves along at an entertaining clip. Some of the dialog is utterly ludicrous, but hey... it's just a movie - and a B minus one at that. There are also a few nice shots of a wolf, and a smattering of humor tossed-in to prevent the film from appearing to take itself too seriously - always a plus for this genre.
    gazzo-2

    I will rip off the Werewolf badly George I will I will..

    .....wow what a dull movie. Here you have 'Sam the Barkeep' from Gunsmoke shambling around in a blatant Lon Cheney knock-off, wearing the world's worst lupine doo while stumbling after George Zucco's ex-colleagues. Zucco himself does his Moriarty routine as always, and is easily the best thing here, while Anne Nagel once again stars in a Monogram poverty-row B flick.

    It's a slow, slow movie, where the hillbillies act rather badly, the victims scream in a monotone, and the dry ice is used and abused frequently. I enjoyed the vines in the 'swamp woods'--clearly they doubled as clotheslines.

    I have a weakness for old B genre flicks from this era, but this one-is snooze central.

    Def. one to avoid unless you are a Zucco fanatic.

    ** outta ****. Zzzzzzz.
    5bsmith5552

    Poverty Row Werewolf Thriller!

    "The Mad Monster" is another of the low budget little horror movies turned out by poverty row studio PRC in the early 1940s. In spite of some of the comments that I've read on this picture, I rather enjoyed it.

    Basically the plot involves mad scientist Dr. Lorenzo Cameron (George Zucco) experimenting on his dim-witted assistant Petro (Glenn Strange), turning him into a werewolf. It's the old story of a scientist trying to create a super race in order to build an invincible army and you guessed it, take over the world. At the same time Cameron seeks revenge on those who had publicly humiliated him when he first presented his ideas, by turning his mad monster upon them.

    Director Sam Newfield gives us an entertaining little movie. In spite of its limited budget, it provides a creepy mist filled atmosphere, as the monster stalks its victims. It also aided by the casting of Zucco and Strange as the two principal characters.

    Strange plays Petro not unlike "Lenny" as played by Lon Chaney Jr. in "Of Mice and Men" (1939). He also does a creditable job as the werewolf of the piece, again not unlike Chaney in the Universal series. Zucco was PRC's resident horror actor, a sort of a poor man's Karloff, and was always excellent in these roles. Strange usually played the Chaney like parts for PRC.

    The standard hero Tom Gregory (Johnny Downs) and heroine Lenora Cameron (Anna Nagle) round out the cast.

    If you are a fan of the old B & W "B" horror flicks of the 40s, then I'm sure you'll like this one.

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      George Zucco's estate set was reused by the cost-conscious set designers at PRC for Zucco's crypt in Dead Men Walk (1943).
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      At approx. 46:31, when Lenora Cameron greets Tom Gregory, a large boom mic shadow follows behind her head.
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      Dr. Lorenzo Cameron: You realise, of course that this country is at war. That our armed forces are locked in combat with a savage horde that fight with fanatical fury. Well that fanatical fury will avail them of nothing when I place my new serum at the disposal of the war department. Just picture gentlemen: An army of wolf men. Fearless! Raging! Every man a snarling animal! My serum will make it possible to unloose millions of such animal men. Men who are governed by one collective thought: the animal lust to kill, without regard to personal safety. Such an army will be invincible gentlemen!

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      Edited into Haunted Hollywood: The Mad Monster (2016)

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 15. Mai 1942 (Vereinigte Staaten)
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      • Vereinigte Staaten
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      • Englisch
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      • The Mad Monsters
    • Drehorte
      • Chadwick Studios, Los Angeles, Kalifornien, USA(house interior)
    • Produktionsfirma
      • Sigmund Neufeld Productions
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