Man-Made Monster (1941) on Netflix
Dan McCormick survives a bus crash into a power line. Dr. John Lawrence takes him in to study his immunity, and Dr. Paul Rigas has other plans for him.
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Dan McCormick is the only passenger to walk away from a bus that hits a high power line, untouched by the current that kills the others aboard. He performs in a sideshow, where he is billed as Dynamo Dan, the Electric Man. Dr. John Lawrence, who wants to study that immunity, takes him in. Lawrence's colleague, Dr. Paul Rigas, has a different aim: an army of electrobiologically driven zombies. For that he needs a man whose body does not resist a current, and he begins giving McCormick doses of electricity of his own, each dose higher than the one before.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Man-Made Monster (1941)
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- Realart's retitling of Man-Made Monster as The Atomic Monster borrowed the name from a spec script by writer-producer Alex Gordon, who received a $1,000 copyright settlement; the resulting meeting between Gordon, his attorney Samuel Z. Arkoff and Realart's James H. Nicholson led the three men to form the company that became American International Pictures.
- Universal treated Man-Made Monster as a quick low-budget feature: it was shot in three weeks on an estimated budget of only $86,000, making it one of the cheapest films the studio made that year.
- Although the film was only a minor box office success, Lon Chaney Jr.'s lead performance was instrumental to his career and helped him win a contract with Universal Pictures.
- Universal's publicity department hinted that history was repeating itself, noting that Lon Chaney Jr.'s first major horror movie role was shot on the same set used for his father's well-known production of The Phantom of the Opera.
