Brightlyme i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

jamesraeburn2003 Whilst experimenting with a matter transmitter, scientist Dr Paul Steiner (Briant Haliday) succeeds in perfecting a technique that can teleport living beings from one end of his laboratory to another using mice as his guinea pigs. Steiner and his colleagues, Dr Patricia Hill (Mary Peach) and Dr Mitchell (Ronald Allen) prepare a demonstration for a visiting official from the Swiss government, Dr Lembach (Gerard Heinz). But, Steiner's bosses, Dr Blanchard (Norman Wooland) and Latham (Derrick de Marney), are planning to steal his research materials and sell the process to the highest bidder. To this end they feign scepticism of his theories and sabotage his equipment so that his demonstration goes wrong. Dr Blanchard them tells Steiner that no more time or money will be afforded to his experiments, which makes him even more determined to prove his theories correct. So he arranges to teleport himself from his laboratory into Blanchard's study, which goes horribly wrong and he is transformed into a hideously deformed creature that needs to be fed with electricity to survive. First, he electrocutes three small time crooks and a cat to death on a building site. Then he kidnaps his secretary, Sheila (Tracey Crisp), who tells him what his bosses have really been up to and he sets out to get revenge on them...Hokey sci-fi horror made during the British horror wave of the 60's, which was spearheaded by Hammer but other producers sought to jump on the bandwagon and cash in on it with their own low budget shockers. Some of the special effects work looks okay (for its time), but the shocks are routine and would unlikely chill a baby nowadays. Director Ian Curteis keeps the plot moving along swiftly but fails to create much in the way of suspense or tension. The climax at Battersea power station, however, is mildly thrilling where the cops have Haliday cornered inside and Mary Peach goes in alone to try and persuade him to come back to the laboratory where Allen thinks he has found a way to cure him. The budding romance between Peach and Allen is bland and insipid and they are just about the most boring hero and heroine imaginable. Bryant Haliday offers the best performance as Dr Steiner who is transformed into a monster during his vain bid to persuade his bosses that his discoveries are genuine. But, little did he know that Dr Blanchard and Latham actually knew the potential of his matter transmitter and only feigned scepticism in order to steal it from right under his nose and clean up. Haliday makes him a sympathetic character as he seeks revenge against them. Film buffs will spot Derrick de Marney, a former leading man in the 1930's and 40's, in the supporting cast as a villain complete with a cat a la Blofeld in the Bond movies. Oh, and the versatile Derek Farr is in there too as a police inspector.All in all, The Projected Man emerges as a hokey and rather dated sci-fi horror, but it is worth the watch as a pleasant reminder of a gentler era of British film making that has long since disappeared.

bionicjoe This movie is spoofed in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. I think MST3K was at its best when they ripped this movie.Terrible acting, bad makeup, poor effects, chick in skimpy (1960's)underwear. I give it a 2.The villain is hard to understand due to the makeup. The assistant says things like 'not you' that sound like NACHOO!! (think sneezing). It's just poor oration. The long eyebrows are hilarious on one of the characters. I still don't know what 'The Projected Man' means in terms of the plot. I missed some of the beginning though. What is up with this 10 line minimum on posting??

Mike Sh. Start with a knockoff of "The Fly" with the setting changed from Montreal to London (England, not Ontario) with added elements of "Darkman" (though that movie was still more than 20 years in the future). Add liberal amounts of nondescript English actors, add an officious bureaucrat who looks like G.I. Joe (the one with the fuzzy hair and beard) and a cute young blonde who spends much of the movie in her underwear. Fold in lots and lots and lots of talking and top off with Bryant Halliday in some pretty cool monster makeup, and you have this movie.Was it any good? Well, it was OK, but a movie like this seems like it should have been much more interesting. David Cronenberg could have done this much better. Heck, Freddie Francis could have done this movie better....

Outer_Heaven The MST3K version with Mike and the bots is hilarious!!! Crow: "No more tedious carrying rats across the room" This movie is like "The Fly" Bryant Haliday was in another MSTied movie "Devil Doll" mutant monster wearing a diaper on half his face