Dr. Cyclops

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Dr. Cyclops

1940

1h 15m

Sci-Fi

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To assist with his work due to his failing eyesight, renowned biologist Dr. Alexander Thorkel invites two prominent scientists and a mineralogist to his hidden Amazon jungle laboratory. Thorkel remains evasive about the nature of his experiments, and after the team evaluates his bacteria slides, he orders them away. When they refuse, Thorkel and his servant trick them into a chamber where Thorkel shrinks them down to microscopic size, and they escape to the terrifying jungle.

Variety Staff

Variety

03/26/2009

Story and direction both fail to catch and hold interest.

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B.R. Crisler

New York Times

03/25/2006

Dr. Cyclops is the best bad picture of the year, an epic of silliness, and, more than that, a triumph of the process screen and the department of trick effects all combined very tastefully with Technicolor.

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Tom Milne

Time Out

01/26/2006

An engaging fantasy with brilliantly executed (though mostly rather unimaginative) special effects which look back to The Devil Doll and forward to The Incredible Shrinking Man.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

01/27/2022

2.5/4

Albert Dekker delivers a chilling performance.

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Kieron Moore

Starburst

08/25/2017

5/10

The story and characterisation is where this movie falls apart, even given the fact that you know from the start it's going to be schlocky.

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Alan Jones

Radio Times

10/19/2016

3/5

The standard plot now looks hackneyed, and the cueball-headed Dekker is stereotypically crazy. However, the impressive array of oversize props make this a lot of fun to watch.

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Dallas H

@FozzieMcFly May 27

The movie is mediocre at best. I guess it is because I have seen too many movies from the Forties to the Sixties about people who have been shrunk down to an abnormally small size by a mad scientist and have to battle against giant insects, rodents, felines, and other similar pests and animals before they can return to their normal size.

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Ray L

@RT17291655 May 25

Great special effects for that time period

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Ted B.

@Movieaddicted May 24

2.5 stars; This film was released prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. The special effects and oversized set props were amazing for its time. Where this film really suffers is the sometimes silly. plot storyline, and the acting is pretty dorky.

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Ed B.

@EdLee May 24

Dr. Cyclops, is an older movie using high tech special effects for 1940. A mad scientist shrinks visitors who are visiting in his island. Not bad. Not great. Fun to watch the shrunken people run from cat. And run in and out of oversized household items and plants. B movie. But considering the release date it was probably spectacular.

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Robert P

@robMoon74 Jan 31

The effects for 1940 isn't bad thought you can see how the story is going to progress from a mile away. It's not bad for what is. Those it is rely on the boring sied

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Noel L

@RT15930389 Dec 6

Now I know where the idea of "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" came from

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Synopsis

To assist with his work due to his failing eyesight, renowned biologist Dr. Alexander Thorkel invites two prominent scientists and a mineralogist to his hidden Amazon jungle laboratory. Thorkel remains evasive about the nature of his experiments, and after the team evaluates his bacteria slides, he orders them away. When they refuse, Thorkel and his servant trick them into a chamber where Thorkel shrinks them down to microscopic size, and they escape to the terrifying jungle.

Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack
Producer: Dale Van Every
Screenwriter: Tom Kilpatrick
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Paramount Pictures
Genre: Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 12, 1940, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 5, 2016
Runtime: 1h 15m