The Invisible Maniac

Talk about a pleasant surprise. Cheesy, silly, stupid, and entertaining. Plot wasn't half bad. Plenty of T&A as well for all you perverts out there. Definitely adding it to the collection.

This is 1 of 3 "classic" horror films I'll be watching today in honor of Stuart Wellington of the Flop House. This one delivers as promised, lots of pointless nudity and murder by submarine sammy. That scene is so nuts. It's always a good time to see how low budget movies handle stuff. Hilarious "invisible" effects aside, the budget could only afford for the high school to have one single class, a principal, and a poor, challenged janitor. No one else to be found. The last 30-40 minutes are a must see, everything before that could have been cut down a bit. But maybe it was that slow burn that made the pay off so great!

I had to watch this through shady means online because it is nowhere to be found. I mean other than on VHS, but come on. What am I, an animal? Castle Freak and Head of the Family are on their way here ("arriving by 8pm" - Amazon bot) as we speak. I'll have to suffer through DVD for Family but luckily Castle Freak is on Blu-ray. Saving those two for nighttime, though.

_The Invisible Maniac_ is a silly horror/comedy boob fest.
Within the classic Universal monster movies, _The Invisible Man_ (1933) is one of the worst. I typically hate comedy in horror, yet I tend to like horror comedies. What I'm saying is this is a superior invisible-man story.
The story is routine: a scientist makes an invisibility serum, then goes mad... or in this case, even more mad.
This is actually made well, considering it's a goofy flick that you would have seen on late-night HBO, back in the day.
The acting might be the only truly weak part: I can remember at least three scenes were actors flubbed lines. You're not going to get another take? No? Okay.
BOOBS!
I think Peter Duhamel was great as our mad scientist. What a missed opportunity that he was never cast as The Joker in a film or cartoon.
Everyone else does an okay job. Debra Lamb has the best set, and the movie even has porn star Savannah.
Totally recommended to anyone who likes dumb boob comedies from the era.

Post script: What mad scientist is complete without a test rabbit? Yup, anytime I see a rabbit in a movie, I get nervous. There is a scene, at the end, where Mister Bunny's cage is thrown; now, I doubt they had a live rabbit in the cage for that - seeing as how the scenes where he was injected with serum, it was clearly acted; meaning, a needle never touched him - but this was 1990, and there wasn't a "no animals were harmed during the making of this film" in the credits, so I can't say.
What is certain is animals are still tested on, to this day, and people pay for it to continue. When you buy personal-hygiene products, and cleaning products, if they do not specify that they are cruelty free, you are paying for animal abuse.

Found out about this movie through scrambled 90s TV means like so many horny teens. Been in rotation ever since because it's really so cheesy, low budget and yet accomplishes so much with so little, it won a special dark place in my heart years ago.

Thanks to VS for putting this to bluray. It's beautiful