The main reason to watch it is for an enthusiastic mad doctor performance from Lionel Atwill.

Chaney is Dan McCormick, a blue collar schmoe who is the sole survivor of a train crash that electrocutes all the other passengers.

Dr. Rigas (Atwill) is intrigued by Dan's immunity to electricity. He decides to use the poor sap as a case study to test his own theories on electrical currents in human biophysics.

But unfortunately, Rigas turns McCormick into a walking AC/DC unit!

Soon, Dan has become a superhuman monster full of thousands of watts...and he requires a constant jolt of volts in order to survive.

Can 'good' Dr. Lawrence (Hinds) and his sweet-natured daughter June (Nagel) save Dan before he experiences a serious power outage?

For a horror flick about electricity, there's not much spark to this lackluster effort.

Only Atwill injects the proceedings with any oomph. Always watchable, Atwill colors Dr. Rigas with a wide-eyed craziness that keeps things moving along.

There's a nice sequence where Chaney survives death in the electric chair (it only serves to give him a little tickle), but unfortunately there's not much else here.

Also known as either The Electric Man or as Mysterious Dr. R.