****SPOILERS**** Introduced as the notorious "Creeper" in the movie "House of Horrors" Rondo Hatton, due to popular demand, is back for an encore appearance in "The Brute Man". It's there where we get to see what caused this man to turn into the monster that he became due to a chemical accident while in collage. The "Creeper" was in fact handsome collage football star Hal Moffat, Fred Coby, who's friend Cliff Scott, Tom Neal, played a prank on him causing him to fail his chemistry class. That ended up leading to his tragic, in mixing the wrong chemicals after classes, accident that changed his handsome looks for the worst.
Despite the "Creepers" brutal string of murders during the movie, where Scott was one of them, he's given a sympathetic side in falling for the blind piano player Hellen Paige, Jane Adams. It was Hellen who save him from being arrested by the police by hiding him in her apartment. The fact that Hellen wasn't able to see him and how hideous he looked was the only reason she wasn't afraid of the guy. This has the movie take on a "City Lights" like story with the "Creeper" going on a new murder spree just for him to get the money that Hellen needs for an eye operation to restore her sight. In the end the "Creeper" turns on Hellen herself in feeling that she betrayed by ratting him out to the police which she, in finding out that he's a serial murderer, reluctantly did.
This turned out to be the last movie that Rando Hatton made released some seven months after he passed away. In fact the two films that established Hatton as the horror star that he was to become, "House of Horrors" & "The Brute Man", came out after his death making him a movie icon for generations of movies fans to come like the late rebellious and teen anti-hero actor James Dean. Who also became famous, some ten years later, after his signature film "Rebel without a Cause" as well as "Giant" were released after his death that catapulted him to movie super stardom.
Despite the "Creepers" brutal string of murders during the movie, where Scott was one of them, he's given a sympathetic side in falling for the blind piano player Hellen Paige, Jane Adams. It was Hellen who save him from being arrested by the police by hiding him in her apartment. The fact that Hellen wasn't able to see him and how hideous he looked was the only reason she wasn't afraid of the guy. This has the movie take on a "City Lights" like story with the "Creeper" going on a new murder spree just for him to get the money that Hellen needs for an eye operation to restore her sight. In the end the "Creeper" turns on Hellen herself in feeling that she betrayed by ratting him out to the police which she, in finding out that he's a serial murderer, reluctantly did.
This turned out to be the last movie that Rando Hatton made released some seven months after he passed away. In fact the two films that established Hatton as the horror star that he was to become, "House of Horrors" & "The Brute Man", came out after his death making him a movie icon for generations of movies fans to come like the late rebellious and teen anti-hero actor James Dean. Who also became famous, some ten years later, after his signature film "Rebel without a Cause" as well as "Giant" were released after his death that catapulted him to movie super stardom.