Don't listen to the negative reviews

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

In 1956 Lon Chaney Jr returned to the horror genre with Indestructible Man and The Black Sleep, the less said about The Black Sleep the better. Anyway it had been eight years since Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein and four years since his role as a mute henchman in The Black Castle. Fans of his will be interested to know that this is a semi of remake of Man Made Monster (1941) the movie which typecast him in horror genre.Here he plays a robber sentenced to death and he has the nickname Butch so I assume he also killed people, he's bought back to life via a Frankenstein type way but the electricity has damaged his vocal cords, fans of Chaney Jr will know that because of his alcohol problem he often asked for his dialogue be eliminated, entirely if possible so apart from the opening scene he has no dialogue. Having been bought back to life he's a man on a mission to kill his ex partners who set him up. Two brilliant scenes are when he kills the scientist and assistant that bought him back to life and around the half hour mark when he kills two cops. The detective hot on his trail is Max Showalter and he narrates the story similar to Friday in the TV show Dragnet.While everything else in the movie is fine the good work of the cast and crew is tainted a little bit the silly romantic sub plot with the detective and Chaney's ex girlfriend played by Marian Carr, in my opinion it seemed forced and didn't do anything for the story.All in all a must see for fans of Lon Chaney Jr or fans of 1950's B horror movies.

This is NOT a "mad scientist" type of film like the description may sound like or the movie poster may indicate. Never mind the film's movie poster - the film is more of a detective crime story (film noir) with a splash of sci-fi horror than it is the other way around. The poster looks as if Lon Chaney, Jr. is a man that can electrocute you with just his touch - and this film is not that way; the film's poster does NOT do this movie justice.I actually like this film. It's better than it's rating and what some of the critics have to say about it. You would have to watch the film to judge for yourself.If you like detective stories, film noir, crime stories, science fiction, horror and/or Lon Chaney, Jr. then you should like "Indestructible Man" - at least give the film a chance when you can get around to watching it.8/10

Very low budget B picture with Lon Chaney Jr. Filmed not so much like a horror film, but as a film noir with a twist.It's actually a decent story and is rather well played out, considering the budget.Chaney over acts and does some crazy mugging and sometimes the closeups don't match up.It's almost like an ED direction.Still, it's easy to forgive because you can get into the story.Here's the plot"Butcher" Benton goes to his death in the state prison, cursing the three men who double-crossed him following an armored-car hold-up; "Squeamy" Ellis, Joe Marcelli and Paul Lowe, his attorney and leader of the gang. He vows to return and kill them and dies without revealing the location of the stolen money. Detective Chasen is determined to keep working on the case until the stolen loot is recovered. Benton's body is taken to Professor Bradshaw and his assistant for experimentation, and they manage to restore him to life, making him practically indestructible in the process. He takes off after the three men, getting rid of everybody who stands in his way. He is impervious to police bullets. He kills Ellis and Marcelli, while Lowe seeks police protection. Benton takes to the sewers to recover the hidden loot and the police are powerless to stop him.

A cheap retelling of the Frankenstein legend, only here it's Chaney seeking revenge by terrorizing parts of LA.Okay, I confess to plunking down my teenage quarter to see this on first release—must have been a slow afternoon. Actually, the movie's not as bad as might be expected. What it has going for it is a lot of imaginative location photography. For a cheap production, the producers don't settle for cardboard sets. Instead they send the crew out onto the streets of LA to capture parts of the city rarely seen on screen. And what I remember most are the seedy glimpses of skid row and the burlesque house. At least these lend color to the nutty proceedings.But would somebody please send Chaney to a sobering-up clinic. He looks like he's been on a ten-day bender, and every time he squints into the camera, I swear I'll never take another drink. There's enough Jim Beam oozing out of those rheumy eyes to stock a flop house bar. Too bad he ended a hopeless alcoholic, and it shows here. There's also some bad acting (Joe Flynn) and silly dialog (the lab scene), but less than you might expect from a no-name supporting cast. Anyway, seeing the movie again, I'd say I only wasted a dime of that long- ago quarter.