Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

williamduda The Neanderthal man is not a good movie, however, it is super fun to watch only for the purpose of laughing at it.

bkoganbing While Superman was on hiatus Robert Shayne who played Inspector Henderson got roped into doing this combination ripoff from Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde and The Invisible Man. Shayne's out doing some nasty experiments on cats among other things including himself. He's developed a serum that has the subjects revert to the primeval. Little house cats turn into sabre tooth tigers and pretty lame ones at that. And Shayne when he injects himself goes all Hyde.What was Shayne thinking when he signed on for this? Or players like Richard Crane, Beverly Garland, William Fawcett and others. Shayne overacts outrageously to cover up how bad this is.The SPCA should have gone after this film for cruelty to animals as well as the critics. One stinkerooney with an ending totally ripped off from Claude Rains and The Invisible Man.

grizzledgeezer To see Robert Shayne was to love him. His square, handsome face, beautiful-but-manly voice -- and real acting ability -- made him one of the great B actors. He's the principal reason for watching this largely undistinguished film -- and why I've rated it 7 stars rather than a much lower number.Contrary to other reviews, Shayne gives a restrained and effective performance. When he writes in his journal about his experiments, and says "I'm afraid -- I'm afraid", it is a genuinely touching moment.The script is all over the place, with a lot of overwritten dialog. But when Shayne inveighs against the stupidity and brutality of humanity, the writing is impassioned and sincere. (It is to this misanthrope, anyway.)The production values are surprisingly high. The "Neanderthal" makeup and transformations are handled as if those doing them really cared about the quality of their work. And Stanley Cortez -- cinematographer for such classics as "Night of the Hunter" and "The Magnificent Ambersons" -- shows his skill.In short -- a formulaic film with a few good things.

MARIO GAUCI A haughty Professor becomes intent on proving that mankind's gradual evolution did not necessarily affect his quotient of intelligence. Despite the distinguished directorial credit, this is a thoroughly routine horror programmer of the 'mad scientist' variety, with more than its fair share of unintended hilarity amid the general tackiness. In fact, I would go so far as to say that, as played by Robert Shayne, the doctor here is the rudest in film history and watching him let rip with insults at his staid, disapproving colleagues was a hoot! Typically for this sort of fare, the all-important serum is first tested on animals or 'lesser' humans – in this case, a perennially terrified domestic cat is turned into a saber-toothed tiger and a mute servant girl into a bushy-eyebrowed ape woman (albeit, apparently, just long enough for her to sit for some photographic evidence of the veracity of his claims) – before applying it to himself. The proverbial redneck hostility to a marauding tiger preying on their livestock and later a simian kidnapper of women is present and accounted for; what is more surprising is that the middle-aged professor has a good-looking and much younger fiancée who still relishes hopes of dragging him from his laboratory off to a church altar and, naturally, once the young urban expert hero comes along, he falls for the charms of the professor's clueless daughter. The TNT-culled print I watched left an awful lot to desire so, in spite of my reservations, I acquired a superior copy of the film the minute it was over!