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The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly (1957)

Directed by Mitsuo Murayama

Science Fiction | Crime | Thriller

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Overview

A series of ghastly murders are being committed. The one similarity in each of the murders is that a weird buzzing sound is always heard right before the murder occurs.  Is the killer invisible or possibly some other incredible creature?

Length 96 minutes

Actors

Yoshirô Kitahara | Ryûji Shinagawa | Junko Kano | Ikuko Môri | Jôji Tsurumi | Yoshihiro Hamaguchi | Shôzô Nanbu | Bontarô Miake | Ichirô Izawa | Shizuo Chûjô | Kô Sugita | Tatsuo Hanabu | Fujio Harumoto | Kôichi Itô | Teppei Endô | Gen Harada | Jirô Tamiya

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Viewing Notes

The invisibility stuff is reduced to a dumb gimmick on the side that’s almost completely irrelevant to the main plot.

This starts out strong as a murder mystery where the victims are murdered in impossible circumstances, but then it devolves into a lot of silliness. I’d rather have seen them explore the reasoning behind the murders more.

Given that this came out five years after the first film, not even sure why they bothered with the invisibility part.

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