Indestructible Man (1956) - Video On Demand

Indestructible Man - Movie Review

300,000 Volts of Horror! indestructible Man tells the story of Butcher Benton (Lon Chaney), a double-crossed convicted robber and murderer who dies in the gas chamber and is inadvertently revived by a lone-wolf cancer researcher who claims his body from the prison and subjects it to further massive jolts of electricity.

"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 restimulated Benton's heart, and he revives mad, mute, immensely strong and with skin virtually impervious even to bazooka shells.

He sets out to avenge himself on the two henchmen who, in collusion with his attorney, betrayed him in order to steal his loot, and also to contact his stripper-girlfriend who has gone straight and begun dating the detective who brought Benton to justice. 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.

It was produced independently, and picked up after completion for distribution in the United States by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation. It was later featured in the fourth season of Mystery Science Theater 3000, alongside an installment of the Crash Corrigan Undersea Kingdom serial.

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