MartinHafer "Man-Made Monster" is the first horror movie that Lon Chaney Jr. made for Universal Studios. Considering that he made for a likable and sympathetic monster in this one, it's not too surprising that the studio soon cast him as another very sympathetic victim...Larry Talbot who was bitten and became the Wolfman! When the story begins, a bus crashes and all the folks aboard are electrocuted...except, oddly, Dan McCormick (Chaney). It turns out that his sideshow act using electricity somehow made him immune to the electricity. The evil Dr. Rigas (Lionel Atwill) wants to exploit this and use his crazy theory to transform Dan into a man without a will. How? By subjecting Dan to electrical treatments that will transform him into an electrical man--a man who doesn't need to eat but lives off energy! There's only one unforeseen problem...Dan soon becomes a murder machine!!This is pretty good stuff and a bit better than the usual Universal B-monster film...which is shocking considering it was the cheapest film made by the studio in 1941! Still enjoyable after all these years.

Rainey Dawn 'Dynamo' Dan McCormick (Chaney) was in a wreck that electrically killed 5 other people but Dan survived it. Dr. John Lawrence (Hinds) and his assistant Dr. Paul Rigas (Atwill) become intrigued by Dan and starts to conduct experiments on him that may help the human race to survive electrocution as Dan did. But Dr. Rigas has a secrect sinister experiment that he is conducting on Dan that turns him into a walking zombified strongman glowing with electricity. Everything and everyone that Dan touches in this state gets a jolt of electricity. Dr. Lawrence finds out about this, tries to stop Dr. Rigas but Dan is being controlled by Dr. Rigas... this proves deadly for Dr. Lawrence and a death sentence for Dan by law.This is a pretty good sci-fi horror of the 1940s. I enjoyed the film but I was not pleased with the decision made by June Lawrence and Mark Adams at the very end of the film... I wish they would have done the right thing and turned Dr. Rigas' diary into the police so everyone knew what really happened to Dan.All in all is an enjoyable movie.9/10

IPreferEvidence I wasn't expecting much when started watching this and it didn't really surprise me at all. Its a cheezy and clichèd 40s monster movie with Lon Chaney Jr. playing a guy who becomes immune to electricity and eventually a mindless thug controlled by a mad scientist. It offers some of the goodness that people are looking for in this type of films. Fog mist thunder and shots of forests and moors in the moonlight and awesome looking pseudo scientific gadgets. The fact that it uses the original wolfman score is also a neat bonus.When it comes to plot is pretty basic, and it also tries a little bit to go for that tragic ending like wolfman did but it doesn't go all the way even though its essentially the same thing. Its overall a very mediocre and unmemorable monster movie with things that have been done over and over again before it and since but it still succeeds in what its trying to do.You wanna watch a 40s monster movie? Hell yeah I do. Let's roll the picture.

preppy-3 Silly horror film with a mad scientist (played by Lionel Atwill) charging a nice guy (Lon Chaney Jr.) with volts of electricity over a long period of time. Eventually Chaney becomes addicted to it and begins to go mad.The characters are clichés, the plot is ridiculous but this moves quickly and (for a low budget picture) is pretty well made. The special effects that make Chaney glow at the end are obvious but kind of fun in a strange way. Atwill chews the scenery (and is clearly enjoying himself) and Chaney is very good in his role. In the last half he (for some reason) can't talk so he has to show all his emotions through body language and facial expressions and he pulls it off. This isn't really a good movie but I remember enjoying it on late night TV when I was kid and I have fond childhood memories of it. I give it a 6.