It’s slow going even at 71 minutes but full of delightful touches and a terrific performance by the all but unseen Rains, whose rich, cultured voice envelopes the picture in a kind of omnipresent fog.

| Apr 26, 2025

Featuring director James Whale's trademark black humor, The Invisible Man is a delightfully demented horror film that sports some truly outstanding visual effects.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 1, 2024

The Universal Monster with the biggest ego and the highest body count. This film is lean and mean (though it definitely doesn't need that female love interest)

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 28, 2024

When you get Claude Rains' performance mixed with James Whale's hand as a director you simply get perfection.

| Oct 31, 2023

It has been 90 years since the release of The Invisible Man and much of the film holds true in spite of its age. It is a stellar example of the craftsmanship of art and the passion that fueled a growing industry of the time.

| Apr 30, 2023

The whole production is rather crudely devised, with American accents allowed to intrude disturbingly on the English setting... On the other hand, Hollywood must take full credit for the film's technical ingenuity, which is indeed remarkable.

| Oct 8, 2020

Mr. Wells's original idea had the element of humour as well as stark terror in it; in the film the humour misses all its glorious opportunities and the terror is robbed.

| Oct 8, 2020

Good for some shivers... hardly as effective on the screen as in on print.

| Oct 8, 2020

The Invisible Man is not on the whole as terrifying as the rest of the hobgoblin genre... But it is considerably more entertaining at least from the point of view of those of us who can get only a limited pleasure out of being scared to death.

| Oct 8, 2020

James Whale's direction is excellent.

| Oct 8, 2020

What makes this good entertainment is the fact that the tension is relieved by much comedy.

| Oct 8, 2020

It must be confessed that it serves its purpose as an eerie and horrifying melodrama.

| Oct 8, 2020

Above all, what stands out in the film is the mastery with which, without becoming ridiculous or absurd, the protagonist is introduced. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 8, 2020

Under the supervision of James Whale, the director of "Frankenstein" and "The Old Dark House" the doings of the Invisible Man have been set forth with extraordinary realism.

| Oct 8, 2020

The best of the horror sagas, being imaginatively and emotionally satisfying and having a hero who is a great success by being continually out of sight.

| Oct 8, 2020

The photography is cleverly done, and conveys a most macabre effect on occasions.

| Oct 8, 2020

Claude Rains gives a convincing study in the title role.

| Oct 8, 2020

Tense and packed with a thrill-punch.

| Oct 8, 2020

A marvel of film technique.

| Oct 8, 2020

'30s book-based science fiction tale has violence.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 28, 2020