Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9925 in VHS
• Released on: 1998-09-01
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Formats: Black & White, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of tapes: 1

Customer Reviews

But why do their clothes shrink, too...??
Lionel Barrymore mightily chews up the scenery in this silly horror movie about a unjustly jailed man who, upon getting paroled, seeks revenge on the crooked businessmen who brought his downfall. There are a few gimmicks here: one is his method of revenge... Using a stolen formula that allows him to shrink humans down to puppet size and control them with his mind (FDA approval pending), Barrymore sends his shrunken zombies out to murder and torment his enemies. The second gimmick is that he uses a false identity as a cover so that he can carry out these nefarious deeds, and his new identity is as an elderly woman who runs a dollmaking shop... a big chance for Barrymore to ham it up in drag. Maureen O'Sullivan plays the daughter who doesn't suspect a thing... The movie is fun in an after-school creature feature kind of way... The revenge plot is ridiculously over-complicated, but hey, I'm sure no one intended this film to be taken as high art. Nice light entertainment, very cool special effects for the 1930s.

Amazing Lionel
Wonderful, amazing, the best film I have ever watch (sorry for my English). Lionel s' interpretation is apoteosic, colossal, inhumane... The argument, original, the special effects unimaginable for the epoch. And the finish is able to emotion to Pol Pot or the same Milosevic. A good film is which what after you have seen too many times, you still feel terror, sadness, happiness... in some scenes. So this is a great film. ¡BRAVOOOOO!.

Holy beams of thought!
In this (unintentionally?) hilarious movie, Lionel Barrymore, a man put into jail for the crimes of his former business partners, breaks out of prison and vows to get revenge. He escapes with a mad scientist who can shrink people and take away their free will, rendering them incapable of resonding unless powered by the force of another will. When this mad scientist guy kicks the bucket, Barrymore's charcter gets the brilliant idea to dress up like a chick and along with the mad scientist's wife, go and terrorize his former business partners as revenge for all the years he spent in prison. For this he uses the little people, who are marketed to the men as the next big thing in toys. They of course appeal to the greedy capitalistic nature of these evil businessmen, serving to lure them all right in to Barrymore's trap.

Barrymore looks like he's having a bit too much fun playing a woman, and anyone who watches this movie will be having fun along with him. He gives a damn fine performance as an Oscar Wilde-ian old lady, a performance no one should miss. For the corniness, the campiness, and the Freudian symbolism, this is definitely a movie worth watching!