If you ask me - It was clearly the unintentionally hilarious, 8-foot-tall, sour-faced robot who, literally, stole the show whenever he/it made an appearance on screen.
I thought that this gleaming, metallic robot-man was a total scream of low-budget, 1930's, Sci-Fi schlock.
And, if this galvanized dude had been given more screen-time (rather than so much given over to that gloating wind-bag, Bela Lugosi), then I think that The Phantom Creeps would've surely been about 10x better, in the long run.
Complete with nosey news-reporters, aggressive G-Men, and bungling lab assistants, The Phantom Creeps starred Bela Lugosi as Prof. Zorka (a crazed but brilliant inventor of several impressive devices) who is gleefully planning to take over the world before anyone gets wise to what's up. (Hey! Isn't that just how Hitler got himself into power?)
With its bargain-basement visual effects and absolutely cornball acting, The Phantom Creeps was generally an enjoyable enough movie-experience. But, hey, that, of course, depends on one's frame of mind when watching this sort of vintage, haywire nonsense (courtesy of Universal Studios).
I thought that this gleaming, metallic robot-man was a total scream of low-budget, 1930's, Sci-Fi schlock.
And, if this galvanized dude had been given more screen-time (rather than so much given over to that gloating wind-bag, Bela Lugosi), then I think that The Phantom Creeps would've surely been about 10x better, in the long run.
Complete with nosey news-reporters, aggressive G-Men, and bungling lab assistants, The Phantom Creeps starred Bela Lugosi as Prof. Zorka (a crazed but brilliant inventor of several impressive devices) who is gleefully planning to take over the world before anyone gets wise to what's up. (Hey! Isn't that just how Hitler got himself into power?)
With its bargain-basement visual effects and absolutely cornball acting, The Phantom Creeps was generally an enjoyable enough movie-experience. But, hey, that, of course, depends on one's frame of mind when watching this sort of vintage, haywire nonsense (courtesy of Universal Studios).