Jack Griffin é o auxiliar de um famoso cientista que, em busca de dinheiro e fama, descobre a fórmula para se tornar invisível. O problema é que ele não descobriu o antídoto e a fórmula o está enlouquecendo, ameaçando as outras pessoas. O que faz com que as autoridades iniciem uma caçada humana contra ele. Adaptação do livro clássico de H. G. Wells, apresentou aqui toda a base do personagem que, depois, seria utilizado em outros filmes e mídias. O ponto mais interessante neste filme é a utilização de efeitos visuais. Até hoje, a revelação, que ele é invisível para a turba que invade o seu quarto na hospedaria, ainda é surpreendente e bem feita, levando em conta a tecnologia e o orçamento do filme. Claude Rains encaixou-se muito bem na figura do Homem Invisível, principalmente que a sua interpretação está praticamente na sua voz. Um clássico dos filmes de terror.

While I do enjoy this movie and the effects of invisble man are extraordinary for the time and hold up fairly well. The movie just feels off to me and I feel like there are points where its trying to be funny and I can't really get behind the the tonal shifts. But that's just my opinion. Overall Its good, but not the best of Universal's classic monsters.

I watched Claude Rains in the Invisible Man today. And I still love this movie even when I was a little boy. It’s such a great film! Plus it’s one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen. It’s like a dark comedy. But either way I enjoy the film very much it’s definitely one of the best movies made by universal studios. I enjoy every second of it. Claude Rains had a talent for playing lunatics. I wonder what he’d think of the 1984 version made by the BBC. But yeah if you need a good laugh I suggest watching this movie

The best of the Universal Monsters.

Probably the best of universal og movies.

The first Invisible Man movie is more faithful to the H.G. Wells novel than most people think. Rains plays the unseen entity wonderfully and truly captures the spirit of the novel

The special effects in this film are HIGHLY underrated, nothing short of groundbreaking, and nobody talks about it. Briskly paced, everybody in this film does exactly what they're supposed to do. I laughed as Dr. Jack Griffin, the titular invisible man devolves into a cartoonish and maniacal spree of murder and mayhem. A very fun film.

I like that Raines is psychotic from the get go. It gives the movie energy and purpose. Whale also has the right sense of humor about the whole thing.

The dialogue in this movie is awful, and Mrs. Hall is one of the most irritating characters I've ever seen.

Great movie!! A true classic of the universal monsters

The original is usually best and love this movie - Claude Raine's debut. The screaming housekeeper is perfect

Amazing for its age, a real pleaser.

Rating: 7/10. 70/100. | How did these effects last this long and still look this good? The Universal Monster movies are just built different. They NEED to make this a Universe nowadays. Like jeez.

Is The Invisible Man a horror movie or science fiction? Its plot about a scientific experiment gone wrong would suggest the latter. However the Invisible Man is often counted among the monsters created by Universal Pictures, and in the 1930s sci-fi and horror often went hand in glove. Indeed they still do. The Invisible Man proved to be a great success. It even gained the approval of H G Wells, who had written the original book. The Invisible Man was reasonably faithful to the book. More importantly it was faithful to the spirit of Wells' novel. Wells had a taste for confronting the absurdly normal with the alarmingly abnormal, and watching as ordinary people are forced to deal with an extraordinary threat. In many Wells stories, these situations are more humorous than horrific. Whale was the ideal director to capture this side of Wells, as his films show a mischievous humour to them. The Invisible Man has many comical scenes, such as one where the Invisible Man steals a policeman's trousers and marches down the street wearing the disembodied trousers singing, ‘Here we go gathering nuts in May'. It was not only in the plot, but in the casting that Whale felt free to indulge in his brand of camp humour. Some of the supporting cast seem to be chosen more for their grotesque value than for their acting skills – pompous-looking policemen with bizarre moustaches, and the hysterical, shrieking Una O'Connor as the landlady at the inn where The Invisible Man stays. The Invisible Man helped to establish Claude Rains as a prominent actor. Rains never acquired the same amount of fame as Karloff. Whereas Karloff was tall and imposing, making him the ideal monster, Rains was diminutive in stature and not good-looking enough to be a romantic lead. For this reason, we never see Rains in the film, except when he is in bandages. When the Invisible Man briefly appears at the end, he is played by a different actor. However the role allowed Rains to capitalise on his biggest asset – his voice. Rains delivered his lines with an elegant diction that is essential to a character who is heard and not seen. His voice is fluid and well-tempered to deal with the role. He delivers his lines with a trace of anger, bordering on hysteria that gives us a clear sense of a man who has gone insane. The scenes of Griffin's invisibility employed special effects that were groundbreaking in their day. Naturally a good many items are moved around on strings, limiting their flexibility, but there are other effects. The film is an early example of matte processing, where two images are combined on screen to appear as one. Other effects were achieved with simple ingenuity. When Griffin removes his clothes, Rains is swathed in black velvet, and the background too is black velvet so that his features merge into this and create the illusion of invisibility. To some extent the audience are invited to partly identify with Griffin. It is hard not to share some of his malicious glee as he plays practical jokes on the villagers, though his murders ultimately prevent him from becoming a hero. Some of this sneaking sympathy we feel for Griffin is the sympathy for the outsider who chooses to humorously subvert the established order. H G Wells was a socialist, and may have found Griffin partly appealing as a figure of anarchy, albeit one that targets the poor as well as the rich. The Invisible Man was the second most successful movie for Universal Studio after Frankenstein, and is still respected today. The exciting potential and indeed the limitations of invisibility proved to be an interesting subject, and like many of Universal's monster movies it inspired a number of inferior sequels. Whatever the faults of later entries in the series, the original movie was made with style and wit. I wrote a longer appreciation of The Invisible Man on my blog page if you would like to read more: https://themoviescreenscene.wordpress.com/2018/06/24/the-invisible-man-1933/

One of the best old movies because it's not afraid to get its hands dirty.

Hard to believe that a movie from 1933 could actually be horrifying to us in 2023, but James Whale manages it. This movie is a prime example that True Evil is frightening no matter how many years pass, and that's exactly what this movie brings to view. 100/100

The Invisible Man has to be the darkest of all the Universal Monster movies. Claude Rains is great as Jack Griffin, Jenny Hall played by Una O'Connor was really funny. Its another masterpiece from Universal.

I hope the remake is better.

Una de las mejores películas de Universal de aquella década, Claude Rains interpreta un espectacular e icónico personaje que logro llevar la obra de H.G. Wells a otro nivel. La película tiene algunas diferencias con la trama de la novela, pero pudo respetar mayor parte de la historia. La única diferencia es el enfoque, ya que en la novela las acciones del hombre invisible generan tensión y se sienten como una experiencia intrigante. La película, en cambio, se siente más como una comedia porque las acciones del hombre invisible hacen que sus escenas más bien de risa. Decir que esta película se orienta al terror es un error porque se nota que es una comedia. Las películas anteriores que Universal produjo también contaban con algún momento humorístico. Esta película se aferra más al humor, pero es un humor inteligente que no degrada lo que Universal estuvo creando con sus monstruos. Esta cinta de ciencia ficción ofrece divertidos momentos humorísticos, haciéndola digna de una comedia. Lo mejor son sin duda los efectos especiales que hoy en día cualquiera puede hacer con Sony Vegas o Photoshop, pero para aquella época era algo impresionante, ya que al no existir la tecnología digital, hoy en día uno se puede asombrar porque hace que se pregunte como se hicieron dichos efectos. Pueden ser algo cutres, pero aun así despiertan el interés. Aunque no hay una aparición totalmente explicita de Claude Rains a excepción de su voz y su cuerpo todo oculto, logro dar una buena personificación de Jack Griffin. En la novela, Jack Griffin cae en una locura total por el efecto del suero que lo obliga a cometer actos atroces. En la película se respetó mucho la personalidad de Jack Griffin. Claude Rains brinda una caricaturesca interpretación que refleja toda la locura de Griffin y sus delirios de dominación mundial. The Invisible Man es una buena adaptación de la obra de Wells, una película entretenida y es recomendable para los que gustan del cine antiguo. Mi calificación para esta película es un 9/10.

Solid old school horror film. Claude Rains is very menancing and scary as the title character. Kudos to director James Whale , and a very intelligent script , and I was amazed how dark and demented this movie was willing to go.