Svengoolie airs Man Made Monster (1941)

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MeTV's Svengoolie is screening Lon Chaney Jr.'s 1941 sci-fi/horror Man-Made Monster tonight at 8 p.m. Detroit time. The film stars Lon Chaney Jr. and features Lionel Atwill as the unethical scientist who uses nefarious technology to create a revenge-seeking, electrically reanimated subject. Man-Made Monster is a 1941 entry often tied to early Universal horror and preceded Chaney Jr.'s later iconic monster roles. Chaney Jr. told the Richmond Times-Dispatch that he admired his father Lon Chaney Sr., would not impersonate his father's parts because they were different physically, and called his father an inspiration. Viewers are invited to post live comments during the broadcast using the hashtag #svengoolie.

Svengoolie Rich Koz

@svengoolieofficial.bsky.social

You can post live comments tonight during “Man-Made Monster” on MeTV! Just use the hashtag #svengoolie and make sure you are safely grounded ( electrical- type grounding, not “ go to your room and stay there”)

1038h ago

brentavision.bsky.social6

Electricity, e-lec-tric-ity... (If you get this, you may also be middle aged...) #svengoolie

Albert Klumpp5

Always enjoy when #Svengoolie runs this one just because of Atwill. Plays the unethical scientist character so well, not over the top crazy, just so arrogant, you really hate him.

brentavision.bsky.social5

Who loves creits at the beginning of movies? WE DO! #svengoolie

Independent News Service 3

thanks to #svengoolie and #ManMadeMonster the bird is covering since it's #internationalCatDay and static electricity doesn't work with cat fur too well

brentavision.bsky.social3

Corky wins the movie! That last scene with him was emotional. #svengoolie

brentavision.bsky.social3

Oh no! The one person who can prove his innocence is unconscious! (It's like I've never seen movies like this before.) #svengoolie

A GEEK DADDY

@geekdad248.bsky.social

Before portraying Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, Wolf Man and the Mummy, Lon Chaney Jr was a MAN-MADE MONSTER. @svengoolieofficial.bsky.social is showing the 1941 horror flick that led into the classic Universal Monsters movie franchises tonight on @MeTV at 8pm Detroit time #Svengoolie #MovieGeek

1110h ago

Nanette K

@nanette-k.bsky.social

It’s Friday, which means it’s #Svengoolie Eve. See everyone tomorrow for “Man Made Monster” on #metv.

10Yesterday

Dr. Rhodes 🐥💎🔱

@doctorrhodes.bsky.social

That time I spent a weekend in what felt like a media frenzy. Posted on the dead bird app long ago. #svengoolie #chicago

133h ago

DerMüde’Tude

@dermudetude.bsky.social

Tonight's movie is the sort of thing Boris Karloff made three or four times: a guy with access to some nefarious technology uses it to return from the dead and get revenge. In fact, "Man-Made Monster" was originally conceived as a Karloff picture. #Svengoolie

115h ago

Migo - The Fungi from Yuggoth

@fungifromyuggoth.bsky.social

#Svengoolie #ManMadeMonster Unfortunately, in this economy, I can't afford to go to a nice restaurant to get a chef-made monster, I have to stay home and have a man-made monster.

115h ago

Rachel Gluckstern

@rgluckst.bsky.social

Look, I can totally be caught with pierogis as bait. #Svengoolie #ManMadeMonster

104h ago

Alan Hait 🏳️‍🌈🏝️🍞✡️

@alanhait.bsky.social

So Jimmy Kildare’s dad left his small town practice and cast his lot in with certified loon Lionel Atwill #Svengoolie #Man-MadeMonster

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84h ago

Michael Campbell

@moviemikec.bsky.social

With all the electric shocks #Svengoolie is going to turn into Dr. Manhattan #ManMadeMonster

85h ago

Statler and Waldorf

@firedstatwald.bsky.social

Texas announces that from now on, executions will be carried out via barbed wire. #svengoolie

83h ago

SugarCookie

@cookie1962.bsky.social

Ah, the obligatory filmy white gown. All the best 1940s film heroines wore them. #svengoolie

73h ago

Abendroth

@abendroth.bsky.social

Tonight on #svengoolie we've got Lon Chaney Jr playing a sympathetic monster with Lionel Atwell in the Sci-fi/horror movie, Man Made Monster! If I'm being honest with you this is one of the lesser Universal Horrors in my opinion, but it's still good fun!