75/100 I've come to expect Ishiro Honda taking a thriller premise and inserting the monstrous into it in his Kaiju films, but The Human Vapor is where I think he manages to make the two meet in a very effective narrative. The first half of the movie is where I think it's most effective, working as a detective narrative working out who exactly is committing these seemingly impossible narratives. While the audience already knows it's the Human Vapor, there is a suspense built in waiting for the characters to find out, especially when it seems the Human Vapor's power is going to make it impossible. A similar dread hangs over the second half of the movie, which, while definitely weaker than the first half, is still good in its own right, with the dread of the Human Vapor's power shifting from his being impossible to find to him being impossible to defeat once they have found him. As for…