量子资源网提供本资源 <> "Dr. Cyclos" is known as one of the better "early sci-fi" films, made in '39 and released in 1940. (It is also in color.) But while the story has otential and there are some good moments, this is a very confused film. The lot is simle - crazy mad scientist on some remote island can shrink animals, and wants to try it on humans. He manages this on a scientific team that came to check things out. They get angry, and the crazy scientist eventually gets really angry because his new shrunken subjects won't cooerate. The thing is, the film doesn't seem to know if it wants to be a thriller, or a goofy movie. Dr. Cyclos (never called that but referenced to a Cyclos after one lens in his glasses breaks) looks cool in his "30's style sci-fi helmet" as he erforms exeriments and can be chilling at times. But there is so much "Disney-style goofy music" going on that it is hard to take anything seriously. The music belongs in a family comedy for the most art, and is layed when the shrunken eole do things like try to survive, and cree around the floor. Add that a few of them have retty gruesome deaths and that just adds to the confusing atmoshere. The FX aren't so bad but nothing secial. The giant sets built are retty imressive though. There is a scene where little fires are tossed at a real crocodile's head which robably made animal activists angry. It also takes a long time for anything to really haen. This movie could have been done in a nice tight half-hour. Good for a viewing, but you robably won't watch again. The erformance of the guy who lays Dr. Cyclos is definitely the main attraction.
