The Invisible Man1933

Bonkers how they shot this for the time, the task of selling the idea alone seems impossible, but they did it all with practical effects and literal film manipulation. The past few months, I've been going down this rabbit hole of films ranging from the 1900-1940's and it just rouses me up so much on how studios and individual filmmakers went above and beyond with the craziest plots and tropes and did them justice. What's even more ludicrous to me is the fact that most characters in these films have a grey moral compass, neither being an outright hero, nor a villain trying to burn the world down without a cause. That leaves so much more room for the people watching to make what they want of it and draw their own conclusions. I'm barely deep into this era of films, but ones like this make me want to delve deeper into it, learn how they did it. PS: Everything about the Invisible Man's introduction is absurdly slick; the silhouette, the whole fit, the way he breathes like a literal lab grown monster. Cool doesn't even cover it.