Bad Movie Review: The Projected Man
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Born a man, turned into a living laser beam by science's most Gruesome experiment. A billion volts of death in every finger. We review British horror The Projected Man, 1966
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Summary: A scientist experimenting with matter transmission from place to place by means of a laser beam suddenly decides to use himself as a test specimen. But the process goes awry, and one side of his body becomes hideously deformed and instantly lethal to anyone it touches.
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Written and presented by Robin Bailes @robinbailes
Directed and Edited by Graham Trelfer
DARK CORNERS OF THIS SICK WORLD S13E20
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Science Advisor Dad is my wife's absolute favorite parts of your movie reviews. Having your dad pop up to answer some really dumb science question about B-movie schlock science absolutely gives her life.
BONUS: Bryant Haliday (Dr. Steiner) while a mediocre actor, was an expert film connoisseur. He co-founded Janus Films and was instrumental in showcasing international and art-house cinema in America. He’s responsible for that “Janus Films” logo you see opening most features in the Criterion collection.
The more you know.
😲😲😲😲
Leave Bryant alone. He was okay.
"Don't you DARE interrupt me!" LMAO. Absolutely brilliant.
That phone ending gag is great!
🤣
Makes me wish I could have a chat with him at a random moment.
Positively the "chef's kiss"! ❤
I think this may be the most gregarious Dark Corners' beloved scientific adviser has been.
I'm sure he was thinking about making atomic butterflies...
Might have been the first time a movie gave Robin a question that deserved a better answer than 'No,' unless there's one that I haven't seen, or just forgot.
@@cord113 that sounds like a prog rock band: Atomic Butterfly.
@@TheRealNormanBates that was Iron Butterfly.
@@a.champagne6238 and Atomic Rooster 😊
Bryant Haliday gets a pass on everything because he was one of the creators of Janus Films. We owe them so much.
I'd rather watch The Projected Man 10 times in a row than try to struggle through Last Year at Marienbad all the way till the end!
Science Advisor Dad trying out a mini Theo Jansen contraption had me laughing.
it’s part of the fun with him: trying to figure out what he’s working on at the time 🤣
The phone sketch was brilliant! 😂
i love how so many of these movies have some one create a miraculous device, but it's never good enough. if you can perform any act of true teleportation, it's nobel prizes and trillions, no matter if you can do living creatures.
Yep, I remember a few years ago hearing about some guy who thought he had managed to teleport a single fragment of matter (my memory is a bit vague, but I think it might have been a single photon or one of the sub-atomic particles) across some tiny distance.
He wasn't even sure if the result was real or an error in his measuring equipment, and it was still big enough news to make it into some of the popular level science journals.
Teleporting human sized objects across town would be a ridiculous achievement.
@@timothypollard6008 hell think of the none living object and how that would change things. we wouldn't need big semi for one just hubs that teleport goods to needed location. you can just make millions with what he already did
Great point! I think, in the context of the film, Steiner can't make any money off it, since it's some kind of government project (no pun). On the other hand, the blackmail plot is to destroy the research, not further it, or even reveal it (Goodbye, Nobel). I assume Discount Blofeld and Cigar Smoking Man are behind Big Transport who don't want all their ships and trucks made obsolete by teleportation of objects (leaving only human transport). So no fame, no further development into transporting living creatures.
I would have given anything if hugo the dummy popped up at the end and screamed "I WANT HAM!!"
It's not Rocket Surgery, It's Brain Science!
I get the scientific need to push the bounds of human knowledge as far as it can (safely!) go, but merely being able to teleport non-living/inorganic matter would be SUCH a massive breakthrough. Best guess is that the blackmailer was hired by the shipping industry to destroy the project that would have completely ruined/obsoleted them?
Once again, thumbs-up for your dad.
That's the longest piece of science advice we've ever heard from the science advisor. Usually it's just "Noooooo..."
I have vague but fond memories of seeing this film when I was a pre-teen, but that was 45 years ago, or more. I've been meaning to give it a rewatch for a long time, but now I wonder if it would be for the best if I didn't, and just preserved the memory.
Me too!
You should preserve the memory.
I liked the idea, but the plot holes are many and deep.
Plan B is to watch it again with the beautiful MST3K!
"Sword and the Sorcerer" was one of my favourite movies when I was a kid. I watched it again about 20 years back and thought it was truely terrible. I then rewatched it a few years later with my expectations dumbed down and really enjoyed it again.
So if you rewatch it and the magic is gone then give it time and try again. It's all about perspective.
@@cord113 That's so true. You get older and cynical, then shit on your old memories. Later, you become even older but wiser, and see them for what they truly were. Other times, you see something that was bad for the time but, when taken out of its original context but taken just by itself, actually seems much better. "Star Trek the Motion Picture" is one of those things for me. Trying so hard to be like a conglomeration of "2001" and "Star Wars" when it first came out, seemingly crapping on the memories of Star Trek's fans, later, taken on its own merits, and in the context of a greater Star Trek universe that had yet to be created, it was actually tastefully restrained.
I think MST3K covered this, because I know I watched it a little while ago. I know teleportation is a far-off thing if it will ever happen, but it's a fun and interesting subject to discuss all the same, so I really do appreciate your father's commentary on it. And the phone ending is brilliant, great work.
Been a while since I saw the MST episode, but I remember that the movie was almost as boring as The Deadly Bees. That's what you get with British 60s horror....
"Unseal a tin of whup-ass" is the riff I remember.
Maybe Paul could go to Gotham City and hang out with Two-Face. Whatcha "Twosome" that would be✌️
I feel like the script writer for Hollow Man, used this as a blueprint.
I'm the projected man, the projected man, the projected man, the projected man. I can project as fast as you can, I can project as fast as you can.
Ha ha! I enjoyed you inserting yourself into the phone conversation. Reminiscent of Weird Movies With Mark when he inserts himself into scenes and pokes fun at the ridiculousness of the plot.
"Don't you dare hang up on me reeeeally slowly!"
Antecedents? For example, "The Pink Panther Strikes Again" references a film called "The Projected Man," with Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) having developed a "death ray" that looks for all the world like the "military issue / extra overkill sized" version of the one in the earlier movie and dissolves objects from far away. Eventually, Dreyfus, like Steiner (guy from "Devil Doll") in "Projected," is himself dissolved by the ray when it is turned on him.
At least The 4D Man had that constantly jarring jazz score. Always love to see Robin's dad.
Gee, this movie was such fun when I was ten...
THE PROJECTED MAN's bill-mate, ISLAND OF TERROR, brought to mind lots of Fifties b- slot sci-fi films; 1958's FIEND WITHOUT A FACE comes immediately to mind.
"Pretty you may be." Is that some kind of British idiom? Or 1960s British idiom? Has any human being in the history of human beings ever said that sentence outside of this movie?
The TV analogy was more akin to Willy Wonka's camera system than a teleporter that we know :P
I feel that every single modern mainstream film are filled with antecedents.
Agreed 😊
“Why is he taking her?” Did you not see her? 😊 Also, I recall he brings her someplace to question her about what happened.
As bad as they seem now . Older movies have so much character in the way they were filmed. Great review as always, you use simple techniques with your humour but the execution is perfect.
Your dad is awesome! I have that exact same Strandbeest model.
Antecedents - the Projected Man's look seems to be based on Two-Face, the Batman villain. But I think it goes back further, with Dorian Gray, Jekyll & Hyde, and other 'split' characters, even Janus in mythology, with one face looking back and one looking forward. I'm sure there are other examples I'm missing.
So.... this has to be one of those movies that a kid in the 1970s hooked on monster movies must love just because of the scary mad doctor makeup face and ability to kill with a touch, because DAMN did I love this movie when I was a kid at that time. It'd pop up on a local TV stations' Monster Movie Matinee and I'd be all like, "oh boy, the lower grade British version of The Fly." And then I'd eat that %$#@ up. I loved British sci-fi and horror from the 50s and 60s.
I don't know man, I was a weird kid.
You seem perfectly normal to me.
Who else is thinking about how you'd turn a butterfly into an atomic bomb?
Gene Roddenberry "invented" the Star Trek transporter when the network accountant told him how much it would cost to make special effects shots of the Enterprise taking off and landing. The visual appearance of the process was perhaps inspired by the deceleration tubes in FORBIDDEN PLANET.
I enjoyed this movie quite a bit when I was a kid and it was on syndication.
But that was mostly due to Sheila and her late-movie fashion choices.
Same here.
That was a great advert for the London Electricity Board at 7:29. :)
FOOTNOTE : that projector device prop was ( I believe) was also used in the low budget movie THE TERRORNAUTS .
Anyone know if this prop has shown up in other movies or TV shows??
The phone call at the end is brilliant! :)
5:39-This part of the movie is why I want to own either the DVD or Blu-Ray of it; I want to make still images of this scene to put on my blog.
I swear some of these are just ads that make me interested in seeing the movie. not always but many times. thanks man for all your great reviews.
Who else thought of Rocky Horror when he was explaining the Matter Transport Device??? "Planet Shmanet Janet!'
The flubs at the end of the vids are brill - it's like Jackie Chan end credits, except no-one gets horribly injured.
Shame Mary Peach wasn't in more stuff: the only things I've ever seen her in are this and the Doctor Who story 'The Enemy of the World'.
Digging deep here, honestly sounds interesting. Sounds similar to the Man With X-Ray Eyes.
"If thine eye offends thee, pluck it out!" 😱😱😱🤢
the talk on the phone idea is brilliant!
Haven’t seen this since the 80s, overdue on a second look.
"Why is he taking her?" That's what mad scientists do.
7:38 these moments are what makes your videos. While I love Brandon eh, the Hack Frauds, Spooky Rice and even a Horror Geek, it's your personal British sense of class, conciseness and sensibility to your reviews that make them enjoyable. GoodBadFlics has some good stuff too.
I wonder if this movie is where Gene Roddenberry got the idea for the transporter in Star Trek. It also reminds me of the first episode of The Outer Limits "The Galaxy Being." An intelligent nitrogen-based lifeform communicates with a man who owns a radio station. He has to attend an event and tells the guy filling in not to turn up the signal. Of course, he does, and the alien materializes along with his deadly radiation.
Any mention of THE OUTER LIMITS is always welcomed (by me especially). To this present day it remains one of the very best exemplars of TV science-fiction, with its uncommonly literate scripts and better than merely decent acting. BTW "The Galaxy Being" was the series' premiere episode when it debuted in September of 1963. The radio guy is actually a scientist---astrophysicist or radio astronomer or something along that line---and he was played by Cliff Robertson.
That was a memorable episode, and the series was and is still absolutely great.
If such teleportation ever became possible it would cause World War Three. Terrorists would use it to teleport bombs, enemy countries would teleport armies and nuclear weapons, there would be huge disruptions to established industries employing millions of people, disease pandemics would spread like wildfire, etc, etc. John Brunner explained what would happen in his novel WEB OF EVERYWHERE. The movie has some similarities to THE FOUR SIDED TRIANGLE.
John Brunner has always been among my favorite SF authors. He penned some great ones: STAND ON ZANZIBAR, THE SHEEP LOOK UP, CHILDREN OF THE THUNDER, THE SHOCKWAVE RIDER, and of course the title you cited. In more specific formal literary terms J.G. Ballard may have been the better writer (the two are sometimes compared thematically), but that's a question entirely open to debate.
Great content, as always
7:42 Wait. Did you invent a phone that can talk to people in the past?
😆 Brilliant review, they always give me a laugh.
Double billed w/ "Island Of Terror" at my neighborhood theatre, it was a fun afternoon
I saw the exact same double bill at a local drive-in. It was a fun evening. One of my more cherished childhood memories.
To be honest, the Projected Man's ability seems similar to the Astounding She Monster. As to Robin's question as to why Steiner is carrying away his unconscious secretary Sheila, I would make the observation of Sheila's an attractive blonde in her underwear. Why wouldn't you carry her away?
Always a treat to see Robin's dad and hear his wealth of scientific knowledge. So, no chance of that Star Trek transporter anytime soon, huh? Just as well. Sounds like the amount of energy needed to transport my overweight body could destroy the solar system.
The Science Adviser's input is cogent, as ever. Robin's conversion on the phone really got me giggling.
I remember watching 1992's "Sneakers" and thinking, "Any moment now one of the characters will say, "Hey, this is just like Blindfold!"."
Oh, I loved "Sneakers"!
@@FreihEitner, _Sneakers_ at least made sense; this movie didn't.
BTW, the tapes were explained. They were the storage tapes of the computer - where the program for the transporter was stored. Mid 1960s version of a hard drive. See any Sci fi from the time or even "Desk Set" with Tracy and Hepburn.
How did it take inspiration from The Fly? That's an 80's film and the bit you showed was clearly from that movie. Was there a 50's version you meant to show a clip from or something?
Yes! The one where the cat disappears.ruclips.net/video/Up6g0SDMJ7A/видео.html
Yes, but my comment disappeared. Search under The Fly 1958.
Another guilty pleasure of mine. Yes it's silly, goofy & over the top. Still watchable sci / horror...British style!
Don't remember seeing this one. It came out the same year as the TV series The Time Tunnel, which had a similar concept: They're going to cut funding so I have to do something drastic that involves putting my life on the line.
I remember reading they did something like that on the atomic level.
Didn't know that they made a Movie about Two-Face back then.
Your dad is amazing! Never enough of your science advisor!
British sci-fi "Four-sided Triangle" (1953) comes to mind. Apologies if you have already reviewed it, but I don't recall you mentioning it your review above. Keep your Dad in as much as possible! Hilarious! Loved the audio you worked in for the phone bit. Keep up the great work and thank you for saving me from watching another movie!
8:04 Allright, you did it, I wet myself 🤣😂🤣😂
A film with an extended family tree is "Alien".
....but.........we LOVE these kind of movies ....
Wow Robin , didn't know you smoked cigars ... snicker , snicker ...
Man, what quality the film excerpts are. How did you manage that? Anyway, I always remember buying my first issue of 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' somewhere around 1966 or so and the first feature in the book was on this film. If I could find an upload of the same quality of this I'd finally have a go at watching the entire film.
Science Advisor Dad built a time machine so Robin could go back to when the films were new and nick a few copies...😉😁
TRIVIA NOTE:
In Australia , Sheila is a slang
term for a female.
I've seen this film and it comes across amost as a 90 minute version of 'The Outer Limits'. I think you are being a little bit harsh on what you admit is a low budget British B movie although it was released just a few months before 'Carry on Screaming', a far better film that lampoons British horror films. Interestingly 'The Projected Man' was filmed at the small Merton Park studios, which two decades later was where 'The Bill' tv series production team was based. The main building is now the offices of an accountancy firm whilst the backlot was redeveloped for housing. Also both Mary Peach and Tracey Crisp, who are seen in the clips you show, are still alive. I wonder what they think about the movie!
I'll admit to a moment of disappointment when I realised there isn't a Dark Corners review of "Jane and the Lost City".
00:51 The plot kind of sounds like the plot of The 4D Man, which starred the late, great Robert Lansing.
I recognize Ronald Allen from Dr. Who. He was in a be the Dominators and Ambassadors of Death. Also Mary Peach from Enemy of the World.
The narr on the phone at the end is funny!
Just another reason why I don't dig teleportation and will settle only for the means to open portals between two different locations at point zero so as to safely pass through as a whole person - provided that it will become a reality as soon as we can lick the problem of any possible risk of ripping the Time-Space Continuum. Also, didn't we see that laser gun-like projector device in HONEY I SHRUNK THE KIDS!!??
I had a serious Mandella Effect moment watching this video. I saw the movie years ago as a child and I could swear the projected man was played by the actor Michael Gough. How I could have misremembered that I have no idea. The two actors don't even look or sound that much alike.
Thumbs up for independent cinema criticism in the United Kingdom!
I remember this film when I was younger, just the deformed scientist. But could never remember the name. So thanks for that
So, he invented the 3-D printer.
That noise is almost as annoying as that old computer start up sound from the 90s
I remember seeing this when I was a kid and that face make-up freaked me out. Of course, I was mostly asleep for the rest of the film, which was quite a contrast.
I particularly enjoyed you in the phone call.
Great ending with the phone.
5:13 THAT movie! It's an MST3k episode where I always only remember the title and that notion that the.... lab assistant?... ends up in her underwear because that's the only think they could come up with as interesting.
Thanks dark corners ❤
The makeup is pretty good, to be honest!
Endless antecedents? I feel like there have been an awful lot of fast, furious films over the years, especially if you start with, say, Cannonball Run.
Wait, this scientist wants to do what was done to Mike Teevee in the original "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" movie!
What sells this movie for me is her premeditated faint pose. LOVE IT.
Have to admit the ending phone call made me laugh
For a long time, I had this movie confused with the 4D Man with Lee Meriwether.
Which we have also reviewed and made the same connection!
YAY!! All hail the Science Advisor!
The phone bit was pretty funny!
The Science Advisor is adorable!😍 💕
Utter tosh,but great entertainment.And that's why I love horror,good or bad!
Mst3k joke oh mrs peel were needed😂
Was the glove thing in the last Deadpool? I know I just watched a movie where a single gardening glove did something.
Season 9 of MST3k gave us a lot of fun (Werewolf, The Final Sacrifice), actually half decent (Gorgo), and memorably bad (Hobgoblins) movies. This one doesn’t qualify for any of those three categories, to the point where I have to constantly be reminded that it even exists.
What was Science Advisor working on? I was looking right at it but didn't know what I was looking at.
I only get that feeling when I'm about to run over something.
It's a scale model of a Strandbeest. A sort of wind-powered robot created by Theo Jansen. The full-size one is pretty terrifying
Crossroads
This is like The 4-D Man but without a brilliant performance on the level of Robert Lansing's to make it above-average.
EXACTLY!
Anytime "Dad" gets involved, it's an automatic thumbs up on the video from me. 👍
I think The Most Dangerous Game has probably had the most remakes, reworkings and plain old ripoffs of any film.
Can you ask your dad why all the controls are so blocky back then and now we just press an app?