The Mad Monster (1942)

Best movie ever!

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.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

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 it's 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.

Poverty Row cheapie starring George Zucco as a mad scientist who doesn't take kindly to being mocked by his peers. These were more innocent times so instead of shooting into a crowd with an assault rifle, he turns his simple-minded gardener into a wolf-man to get even with those who scoffed at him.Glenn Strange's turn as the title monster is sure to elicit some laughs from most of the viewers today (and possibly even back then). Just think of those old "which way did he go, George" cartoons and you pretty much have Strange's performance here. Zucco is, of course, lots of fun as the villain. He isn't as well-remembered as Karloff or Lugosi or Price but he's a horror legend in his own right. It's an enjoyable movie of its type. Yes, it's cheap-looking and laughable at times, but it's also a lot of fun if you take it as it was intended.

For an obscure werewolf "B" movie, it's hard to beat PRC's 1942 epic, "The Mad Monster". George Zucco is a mad scientist extracting wolf DNA and injecting it into half-wit yokel Glenn Strange, thereby turning him into a werewolf. Strange makes a pretty good werewolf but when not in the throes of lycanthropy, he seems to think he's Lenny from "Of Mice and Men". Anyhow, Zucco uses Strange to bump off several scientists who had ridiculed him in the past and caused him to resign his position in disgrace. The movie moves along at a pretty brisk pace up to the end when Zucco gets strangled by Strange and Strange perishes in a conflagration cause by lightning. Typical PRC production standards except for the werewolf transition scene, which, while not up to Universal standards, ain't bad.

This Is A Truthfully Boring & Stupid Movie. I Only Saw It Via MTS3K...The Only Thing Not Turing My Brain Into Liquid Was The Breaks That Joel & The Bots Took. I Thought That I'd Eventually See The "Manos" Episode...I DON'T WANNA LIVE! The Movie Is Quite Easily One Of The Worst I Have Ever Seen. The Wolf Guy Stated At One Point That He Hardly Had An Education...He Made It Abundantly Obvious To Everyone. The Mad Scientist Does A Performance In The Movie So Bad That It Would Make Dolph Lungren Think Better About Himself As An Actor & Mean It Truthfully. This Underacted Piece Of Crap Should Only Be Watched Via MTS3K. You Can Watch The Film Unedited On IMDb For Free But Its Not Worth The Time.