A waste of 90 minutes of my life

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Lon Chaney, Jr. plays the title role in Man Made Monster, a man who through electricity is turned into a killer. The doer of this evil deed is Lionel Atwill playing the part of the mad scientist with the usual relish he brings to these kind of roles.It all starts out when Chaney is the sole survivor of a bus crash which hit a power line. All the other passengers are electrocuted when the downed power lines hit the bus. But Chaney emerges with a few cuts and bruises.Turns out he has a carnival act of sorts in which controlled amounts of electricity pass through his body and it's given him a certain tolerance level. Chaney agress to live with Dr. Samuel Hinds and his niece Anne Nagel to be a human guinea pig for some relatively benign experiments. But Hinds's associate Atwill has other ideas and his experiments turn Chaney into a walking dynamo who can electrocute at a touch and needs those jolts of electricity from Atwill to stay alive.As I said before Atwill is the real star of this film. He must have chewed two living room sets of furniture in Man Made Monster, but it all works beautifully for his performance. Frank Albertson is also around as a wisecracking reporter and love interest for Nagel.Chaney seems always cast as the good, but doomed soul, a part played well in Of Mice And Men and the original Wolfman movie. In Man Made Monster he's not simple minded like Lennie Small, but he's a happy go lucky sort when we first meet him. He does change and horribly.In the end its not humans who do him in, but rather the properties of electricity itself. Watch this good horror flick from Universal to see what I mean.

I watched this film for the first time just now, with my wife. My wife was very, VERY interested in this film, it was a good thing. I'm a Horror Host TV show fan and the MeTV host Svengoolie had it so I DVR'd it. You must not watch this stuff live, way too many commercials, lol. A comment on having any horror host on TV is I appreciate it but I wish there was a 24/7 Horror host channel, that would be cool. And as far as Svengoolie segments are concerned I thought they were really good and my wife actually laughed almost every segment which I was amazed with since she hates MST3K which is my favorite (and Mr. Lobo), she doesn't pay much attention, lol.It's funny that I watched Lon Chaney's last film Dracula vs Frankenstein (highly recommended!) and watched his many low budget films before this but never watched his first horror film! Love you Lon! And also Lionel Atwill good too! So, back to the film. Actually really, really good. I'm shocked that I'm in my 50's and never saw this before. Awesome horror film. Very stereotyped with the classes and a really silly ending as far as the girl in peril thing. Also, they do not show Lon, now the monster, killing all the people as he BREAKS OUT OF PRISON! It's sad but I'm still a fan of this film, a big fan now. 7 of 10, watch on a horror host show for more fun though.

Lon Chaney Junior has an odd distinction in the Universal Horror Canon. He was the only actor to portray the Wolf Man. he was the only actor to play all the major monsters- Frankenstein, the Mummy, the Wolf Man and Dracula. But this little film is often overlooked.He plays "Dynamo Dan", a carnival performer who works with electricity who inexplicably survives an electrical accident that kills many others. He goes to work for mad scientist Lional Atwill who proceeds to turn him into an electric powered zombie.Sentenced to die in the electric chair, he rampages across the countryside after a botched execution and gets his revenge.it contains all the flavor of a Universal Horror film with none of the substance.

Plot— to control his mind, a mad scientist (is there any other kind) sends a big current of electricity through a carnival guy making him glow like a neon sign. Trouble ensues.Anyone familiar with horror pictures of the 30's and 40's knows that under no circumstance do you let Karloff, Zucco, or Atwill strap you down, especially in a laboratory. Pity poor Chaney Jr. He's really a nice guy, but after one horizontal session with Atwill, he lights up like Main St. on a Saturday night. But then he should have seen it coming— after all, Atwill's laboratory has more bells and whistles than Cape Canaveral. Chaney'll never get his old life back now that he's turned into a walking light bulb.Worse, after Atwill has fried Chaney's brain, the big guy has all the personality of a zombie. So, what does the trial court's head doctor say is wrong with him after he's murdered a guy —why, acute melancholia, of course. Sounds to me like the screenwriter has something against head doctors. But then, he doesn't much care for district attorneys either. Because a woman drops dead of fright right after the righteous DA says the public has nothing to fear. Hope the guy has a back-up job.Good slick production from a practiced Universal crew. I especially like Corky the dog, a fine canine actor, along with ingénue Anne Nagel who certainly lit up my corner of the room. All in all, I guess we have electricity to thank for these pre-war laboratory monsters and then nuclear radiation for the post-war mutant monsters. One way or the other, they're still a lot of fun, like this one.