![]() The title may suggest otherwise, but this is arguably the story of a woman whose concerns and fears are ignored to the point that she herself may as well be invisible. Wells‘ novel with more urgent themes from today. Touches of Sleeping With the Enemy (1991) and Hollow Man (2000) aside, Whannell’s rebirth of The Invisible Man feels like a fresh take blending the most minimal of threads from H.G. Cecilia inherits his fortune, with telling strings attached, and soon finds herself terrorized by something - or someone - that no one can see. The days and weeks that follow see Cecilia reveal to Emily and their friend James ( Aldis Hodge) that Adrian was controlling and abusive, and a sigh of relief comes when news hits that the wealthy and highly intelligent scientist has died by his own hands. Her boyfriend Adrian ( Oliver Jackson-Cohen) gives chase, smashes her window, and screams into the night as the sisters drive away. Go-bag in hand, she sneaks out of the high-tech house, runs through the woods, and leaps into her sister Emily’s ( Harriet Dyer) waiting car. Waves crash against a rocky bluff, and in the shiny new house above, Cecilia ( Elisabeth Moss) is executing her escape. Happily, the desire to bring these characters back into the light remains, and with writer/director Leigh Whannell‘s The Invisible Man that desire has resulted in a terrifically entertaining nail-biter that highlights the monster of the title by focusing on the woman he claims as his victim. ![]() ![]() The studio finally realized how much of a wasted opportunity this was and went about creating the Dark Universe - infamous characters were cast, 2014’s Dracula Untold was ret-conned, photo-shoots were undertaken, 2017’s The Mummy was bungled into an action misfire - before disbanding the entire thing. ![]() It was always a bit odd that Universal Pictures never quite got around to revisiting its famous monsters properly, especially with the knowledge that their movies from the 30s were a precursor to today’s blockbuster “shared universe” franchises. ![]()
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