The Gamma-Ray Man (2013)
Mild-mannered scientist Dr. Vance Lake (Doug MacKechnie) is betrayed by his research partner Dr. Ernst Vilious (Jerry Bloom) and Vilious's wife Anne (Susan Fay), becoming a strange inhuman creature. With the help of plucky reporter Penny Ingram (Margaret Katch), the Gamma-Ray Man lays a trap for Anne Vilious to avenge himself.
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It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?
While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.