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Immerse yourself in a gripping thriller with this The Invisible Man Poster. An intriguing poster for a film that will make you shiver. Follow the captivating story of a woman stalked by her violent ex, who has become invisible.
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Description of this Poster The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man is a 1933 American science fiction horror film directed by James Whale based on HG Wells' 1897 novel The Invisible Man, produced by Universal Pictures, starring Gloria Stuart, Claude Rains and William Harrigan in the main roles. The film features a certain Dr Jack Griffin (Rains), covered in bandages and whose eyes are hidden by dark glasses, the result of a secret experiment which makes him invisible, who takes a pension in the village of Iping. Never leaving his accommodation, the stranger demands that the staff leave him completely alone until his landlady discovers that he is invisible. Griffin returns to the laboratory of his mentor, Dr. Cranley (Henry Travers), where he reveals his secret to Dr. Kemp (William Harrigan) and his former fiancée Flora Cranley (Gloria Stuart), who soon learn that Griffin's discovery drove him crazy, pushing him to prove his superiority over others by playing harmless pranks at first, then committing murder.
The Invisible Man was in development for Universal as early as 1931, when Richard L. Schayer and Robert Florey suggested that Wells' novel would make a good sequel to the studio's hit horror film, Dracula. Universal opted to make Frankenstein in 1931. Several screenplay adaptations were then written and a number of potential directors, including Florey, EA Dupont, Cyril Gardner and screenwriters John L. Balderston, Preston Sturges and Garrett Fort, all signed on to develop the project, with the intention of making a film for Boris Karloff. After working on The Old Dark House with Karloff and The Kiss Before the Mirror, Whale signed on and fellow screenwriter RC Sherriff developed a script in London. Production began in June 1933 and concluded in August, with two months of special effects work following filming's completion.
Upon its release in 1933, the film was a great financial success for Universal and received good reviews from several specialized publications, including the New York Times, which placed it among the best films of 1933. The film spawned several sequels that had little to do with the original film in the 1940s. The film continued to receive praise in reappraisals by critics such as Carlos Clarens, Jack Sullivan, and Kim Newman, and was cited as one of their favorite genre films by filmmakers John Carpenter, Joe Dante and Ray Harryhausen. In 2008, The Invisible Man was selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in the United States National Film Registry due to its cultural, historical, or aesthetic significance.
On a snowy night, a stranger, his face covered in bandages and his eyes hidden by dark glasses, takes a room at the Lion's Head Inn, in the English village of Iping, in Sussex. The man asks to be left alone. Later, the innkeeper, Mr. Hall, is sent by his wife to evict the stranger who has made a huge mess of his room while making inquiries and has fallen behind on his rent payment. Furious, the stranger throws Mr. Hall down the stairs. Confronted by a police officer and some local civilians, he removes his bandages and glasses, revealing that he is invisible. Laughing out loud, he undresses, making himself completely undetectable, and chases away his tormentors before fleeing into the countryside.
The stranger is Doctor Jack Griffin, a chemist who discovered the secret of invisibility while performing a series of tests on an obscure drug called monocane. Flora Cranley, Griffin's fiancée and the daughter of his employer, Dr. Cranley, becomes concerned about Griffin's long absence. Cranley and his other assistant, Dr. Kemp, search Griffin's empty laboratory and find only a single note in a cupboard. Cranley gets worried when he reads it. The memo contains a list of chemicals, including monocane, which Cranley knows to be extremely dangerous; an injection of this product drove a dog crazy in Germany. Griffin, it seems, is unaware. Cranley deduces that Griffin may have learned about monocane from English books printed before the incident, which only describe its whitening power.
The evening of his escape from the inn, Griffin shows up at Kemp's house. He forces Kemp to become his visible partner in a plot to dominate the world through a reign of terror, starting with "a few murders here and there." They return to the inn to retrieve his notebooks on the invisibility process. Sneaking inside, Griffin discovers that a police investigation is underway, led by an official who believes it to be a hoax. After securing his books, Griffin angrily attacks and kills the officer.
Back home, Kemp calls Cranley for help, then the police. Flora persuades her father to let her accompany him. In her presence, Griffin becomes calmer and calls her "sweetheart". When he realizes that Kemp has betrayed him, his first reaction is to keep Flora away from danger. After promising Kemp to assassinate him at 10 a.m. the next evening, Griffin escapes and goes on a killing spree. He causes a train to derail, killing around a hundred people, and throws two volunteer researchers off a cliff. The police are offering a reward to anyone who can find a way to catch him.
Sensing that Griffin will try to keep his promise, the chief inspector in charge of the search uses Kemp as bait and sets up various clever traps. At Kemp's insistence, the police disguise him in a police uniform and let him drive his car away from his house. Griffin, however, hides in the backseat of the car, which surprises Kemp and tells him that he also followed him all day while he committed his crimes. He overpowers Kemp and straps him into the front seat. Griffin then sends the car down a steep hill and over a cliff where it instantly explodes, killing Kemp.
A snowstorm forces Griffin to take refuge in a barn where he falls asleep. Later, a farmer comes in and sees movement in the hay where Griffin is sleeping. He alerts the police, who rush to the farm and surround the barn. They set the building on fire, forcing Griffin to go outside, leaving footprints visible in the snow. The chief detective opens fire, mortally wounding Griffin. He is taken to the hospital where, a few hours later, a surgeon informs Dr. Cranley that Griffin is dying and that he asks to see Flora. On his deathbed, Griffin remorsefully confesses to Flora: "I have meddled in things that man ought to leave alone." As he dies, his body quickly becomes visible again.
