The huge success of James Wales Frankenstein in 1931 saw a glut of other films about mad scientists,

many of which were based on Victorian literature. First, Paramount Pictures produced an adaptation

of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novel,

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. While this book had been adapted for the screen before,

most notably in 1920s starring John Barrymore, here director Ruben Mamouliin used revolutionary camera tricks and techniques and

explicit boundary-pushing pre-code adult themes to make it one of the darkest horror films

of the era.

A couple of years later, James Whale returned to the world of Universal Monsters to adapt H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man.

Faminear madness with your peering through the keyholes and dipping through the curtains.

While this film was a lot less dark than Dr.ekyll and Mr Hyde and contained Wales' signature

camp comedy and larger-than-life characters.

It also contained revolutionary visual effects and features arguably the most sadistic and

murderous of all the universal monsters.

Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of man-made monsters, and we discuss two 1930s monster movies, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Invisible Man. He's invisible.

This was the matter with him.

If he gets the rest of them, close off, we'll never catch him in a thousand years.

Welcome back to the evolution of horror.

My name is Mike Munser, and as ever, I am your host. In this podcast, we explore and dissect the history and the evolution of horror. My name is Mike Munser and as ever I am your host. In this

podcast, we explore and dissect the history and the evolution of the horror genre, one subgenre

at a time. Now, we are currently in the midst of our 11th season exploring the evolution of man-made

monsters. And this is part eight. In this week's episode, as that intro suggested, now that

we've done our Frankenstein adaptations, we're going back to early cinema to cover some

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