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darchildre · 1 year ago

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Anyway, my next dumb movie-watching project is going to be watching all of the Universal Invisible Man series. I've only ever seen the original, I'm pretty sure both Vincent Price and Peter Lorre are in there somewhere, and I believe there's an Invisible-Man-versus-the-Nazis film.

I should be done with the audiobook by this weekend, so I'll likely start the series then.

Today, my lunchtime entertainment is an audiobook of The Invisible Man, which I've read before but probably not since middle school.

You guys, this book is so extremely funny. I'm on chapter 9 and so far the book has primarily been slapstick comedy.

I'm most familiar with this story via the 1933 film, which definitely has funny bits (god bless Una O'Connor) but the book has so much more time to stretch them out for entire chapters of people trying to arrest this terribly angry man who keeps getting away by stripping all his clothes off and keeps getting found again because he can't stop either swearing at people or sneezing (because it's winter, he has no clothes, and he's caught a terrible chill).

Everyone in this book is ridiculous and I love them.

#the invisible man never gets included in any of the weird universal horror crossover films #(unless abbott and costello are also there #and those don't count if you ask me)#and i think that's a shame #the mummy doesn't because egypt is too far away from universal horror!europe #and the creature from the black lagoon is from a completely different horror cycle #but the invisible man is right there in england!#surely he should get to meet frankenstein et al #the invisible man

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