Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

HottWwjdIam There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

Catherina If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Wizard-8 Try as might, I could not determine in a snappy summary line what the "H" in the title of the movie stood for. All the adjectives I could think of to describe the movie started with other letters. I can't say that the movie is "horrible" or "horrendous", but I can say that the movie really tested my patience. It's a really slow-moving exercise, particularly in the first third or so of the movie. It takes forever for things to get going, and once it does the "thrills" come in very brief (and somewhat weak) spurts. It's almost as if the filmmakers were afraid of potentially scaring or creeping out their audience, right down to the musical score, consisting of music that seems right out of a completely different movie. There are a few interesting low-tech special effects that are fun to watch, but in no way is it worth investing over 70 minutes of your time to watch a couple of minutes of slight novelty.

Scott LeBrun "The H-Man" is a deliberately paced combination of cop drama, film noir, and spooky sci-fi. In its own way, it makes a pretty devastating commentary on the effects of radioactivity, even if "Gojira" is much better known.A drug deal goes awry, and mysterious circumstances befall one of the participants: his body disappears, yet his clothes remain. Soon another criminal meets the same fate. The cops are understandably perplexed, but a young scientist, Masada (Kenji Sahara), comes to see them with a theory. It sounds utterly fantastic, but it fits the facts: people are being dissolved by a living form of radioactive slime.This is very reminiscent of "The Blob", and in fact came out the same year. Regardless of whoever might have come up with the idea first, this is good stuff. The sci-fi moments are just so damn creepy and *cool* that some viewers may wish that more of the film were like this. Still, the characters keep things interesting. The extremely prolific Ishiro Honda masterfully guides the action, and gets fine performances out of his actors. Yumi Shirakawa stars as the night club singer Chikako Arai, the innocent wife of the first gangster to be devoured by the slime. Makoto Sato is a fun villain as the intimidating Uchida.The action is, appropriately enough, sometimes interrupted by song or dance numbers, and the women are often dressed quite sexily.The scenes of people being eaten are quite disconcerting, and certainly must have been even more frightening back in 1958. The action finishes with a rousing climax in the sewers while authorities fight the monster the best way that they know how.This is a good Japanese genre effort that's worth a look.Seven out of 10.

Chung Mo This is one of the legendary Toho sci-fi films that is remembered more then actually seen. A number of friends fondly recall this film as one of the best that Honda directed even with the less than stellar English dubbing.The film is very well done but with some weak points that detract from the overall effect of the production. One aspect that is very good is the excellent special effect work by Eji Tsuburaya. The scenes of liquid humans going up walls works and the scenes where the victims are liquefied are still effective. Towards the end we are treated to some great miniatures of the Tokyo waterfront and sewer system that are almost indistinguishable from the life-size sets. The film is filled with shadows and creepy sets. The story moves along quite well until the times we get to the nightclub were everything stops for dance numbers with bikini clad women and two songs (one in English!). The film would be a good fifteen minutes shorter without them and they contribute nothing to the story. Of course you might enjoy these for their own qualities.The ending is a little screwy and there seems to be some budgetary constraints as a promised H-Man destruction event never occurs.Overall, a very good horror film that stands up to anything that came out of the US or Britain at the same time.

cborchids There were a few films from my childhood that really left an impression, and this was one - creepy! It IS out on VHS at least, maybe DVD, but Netflix doesn't have it. One of five or six such films that still hold up both as documents of their times and as scary as they were to a kid. I'd also recommend Quatermass 2, aka Enemy from Space, and for nonscary monsters, try 20 Million Miles to Earth. It's an interesting project to go back and see what of the stuff from childhood is still effective, and in what ways it is not. This Island Earth totally creeped me out, as did the 1953 War of the Worlds, and the original Invaders from Mars, but the remakes of these last two mostly failed. The H Man however is great. Enough lines yet?