So why not…
Monster-of-the-Week: …give the nod to an earlier electrically-charged menace, Lon Chaney, Jr. as Dynamo Dan, the literally shocking title character of the 1941 Universal shocker Man Made Monster…
Dan’s a sideshow artist who gets electrical “treatments” from mad scientist Lionel Atwill. When he gets unjustly sent to the chair, the zap turns him into a shambling zombie with a killer touch. Chaney made this B-flick just before his triumph in The Wolf Man, and like that film it shows him at his hapless-everyman best.
