stevebob99

The Invisible Ray is an excellent display of both the acting talents of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. Karloff pulls off a flawless performance as a sullen and conflicted scientist who appears to put his scientific achievements ahead of his relationships with others, even his wife. His already loner personality becomes unbearable as he becomes paranoid.

Lugosi plays the consummate professional, who is passionate about his work but still finds time to maintain on good terms with everyone, but still seems to have no real close friends. This was one of his few roles as a good guy and he plays it very well. It is hard, however to hear his accent and believe he is French.

The biggest problem with the movie was that it was all based on "junk science" but, in a way, even the junk science makes it work well. Since the ideas and theories are completely idiotic, they are as "relevant" today as they were when the movie was made. And they are also as forward reaching- and always will be.

This is a perfectly delightful movie to watch again and again. I saw it maybe 5 times this weekend and I could easily sit through it five more times. The acting is marvelous and the science is amusing. I highly recommend it.

I originally wasn't going to post a comment on this one, but after reading the others, I felt I needed to say one thing- the ending DID work, in fact it was the best part of the movie. The reason? Everyone expected a certain kind of ending, including me and we were all set up for something completely different.

This one gave us something we did not expect, and for that reason, I think it is a wonderful, refreshing, classic. I bought the movie expecting a campy cult film, and I was very pleasantly surprised.

The level of acting was stellar, with the exception of the Scottish grounds keeper that sounded like he was overdoing the accent and looked like he was really a young man in heavy make-up.

As Richard Boone descended into madness, you could feel him starting to slip. If you watch the movie late enough at night, you'll feel like you're going with him because the film starts to get distorted and subtly changes.

The best part of this rare treasure is that you can get it cheaply combined with other "classic" horror movies of the 60s and 70s. The copy I bought had the hilarious "Bucket of Blood" and the compelling "Horror Hotel" on the same disk.

Outstanding!

Attack of the Giant Leeches is a very fun movie if you like watching B-horror movies to laugh at how poorly they are made and scripted. A few things I learned from this movie:

1) Alligators aren't scared of men or animals but they may be afraid of minerals

2) Game wardens take their wives out on dates while they look for poachers

3) Atomic testing can cause giant mutations of just about anything (OK, OK, I already knew that. Most of these movies are about that.)

4) Women like being called "baby"

5) If you're in a boat for 2 days looking for something in the water, then you hear it sloshing around, it's OK to just go home without checking it out.

6) It's OK to have a picnic in a boat while looking for dangerous monsters.

7)Sleezy people always die in the end (I already knew that)

8) Good guys don't need a good reason to take their shirts off (Ok, I knew that, too)

The monster costume was so bad I couldn't make out the shape of the leech at all- it looked like what it was- a man in a cheesy suit.

I gave the movie a 2 because it really was bad, but don't let that stop you from watching it. It was 64 fun minutes of foolish pleasure from the king of B-horror, Roger Corman