Visit redwebpod.com to get this full episode of Movie Club, our exclusive podcast exploring horror movies from classic to crap. This week on Movie Club we take a trip back in time and watch what might be the oldest movie any of us have seen: 1933's The Invisible Man. Thank you to Task Force member EchthelionII for suggesting this to us! Sensitive topics: animal cruelty "Awkward Meeting", "Crypto", "Echoes of Time v2", "Redletter", "Stay the Course" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the movie discussed in this episode?
Hey, Task Force, this is Jillian. Please enjoy this preview of our movie club episode on The Invisible Man from 1933. A Task Force member suggested this, so it was really cool watching something and discussing something that none of us had seen before. If you want to hear the full episode, please go to redwoodpod.com. Otherwise, enjoy this preview.
Chapter 2: What strange ingredient is mentioned in the movie?
Back with Dr. Canley, he and another scientist, Dr. Kemp, are looking in Griffin's office for clues about his whereabouts, his activities, and they found a note mentioning a strange ingredient called monocaine. So, apparently, experiments with this were for, like, laundry detergent and, like, erasing stains, maybe.
Yeah, like bleach.
Bleach, yeah. Because it sucks all the color out of things. What an insane, like, back venue. It's like, whoa! Now they're like, come on!
the science of sound see but in some like german experiments super obscure things went horribly wrong and the patients went mad crazy so they're like uh oh we need to find him and let him know no he's already mad i do love a descent into madness he's already there at the start of the film but he does get worse
Chapter 3: How is madness portrayed in The Invisible Man?
It's so cool, like, how subtle it is at first. Like, yes, he's very abrasive. And so you're just like, okay, maybe it's just a rude man. And there's a lot of suspense and tension building and whatnot. But I think it's really, like, eventually they do start to portray the madness more. more and more, but I feel like it is still subdued compared to today's movies that are so big.
And so it can be, we're maybe desensitized to it, but I think for this time period, it is so exaggerated that he comes off as a monster and maybe that's how he fits in that monster verse a little bit. Like it's like a human that's been manipulated by science in some way. And then there's evil is kind of their formula. Yeah.
That's a great point. Well, this evil human finds his way to Kemp's house and sneaks in. He demands to stay there with Kemp, threatening him and claims that he's his partner in crime, essentially. It's kind of unclear what Griffin wants, but he basically wants to rule the world with his invisibility and do a few murders, as he says.
Chapter 4: What are Griffin's intentions with his invisibility?
Just a couple murders. Just a couple.
Just a few, just to get us to the powerful part.
It was interesting that he said that. He was like, yeah, we'll rule the world. But then he's also talking about working on the antidote for himself at the same time. And so I didn't know how much of that was the madness affecting him and he's having this struggle and maybe they just kind of missed the mark on delivering that.
Or if he just for some reason had that goal and was like, yeah, we'll rule the world and then I'll go visible and it'll be the perfect crime. They'll never know it was me. It was a little mixed messaging for me.
Yeah. He is mad.
He is mad. I agree. I think he tries to explain it in the sense of like, there are inconveniences where like, if you go down the stairs, you normally, you're used to seeing your feet. And I think he doesn't want to be invisible.
But then later on, he talks about the thousands, nay, millions that he could make, you know, selling this thing and how armies of invisible men could like take over the world. So yeah. It's almost like he goes, you know, uh, curse for the, but not for me. I I'll monetize it, but you, you know, you can fall prey to the badness because you'll you, this army can be my puppets or something.
It, it's kind of like, I don't want to get overly like artistic or call it an allegory here, but it is interesting where he's like, yeah, I want to cure myself. This thing sucks, but, but I could really use it, you know? No, that's fair. by putting it on others. But I see what you're saying. I kind of felt that along the way.
However, he needs a few notebooks that he left back at the inn. These have the results of his experiments, possibly how to become not invisible, unclear. He makes Kemp drive him back to the inn, and they find the townspeople are meeting to decide what to do about the invisible man, if he's real. Because some people don't... It's kind of like a dancing plague situation. They're like...
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