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Remakes! Some people hate them, some people love them, some of them are good, and some of them fail miserably trying to recapture that lightning in a bottle that made the original so beloved in the first place. Luckily for us, Leigh Whannell has avoided such a pitfall, creating a fresh reimagining of horror classic The Invisible Man, and it stands on its own as successfully as other great horror remakes such as John Carpenter’s The Thing and Neil LaBute’s The Wicker Man (ok, maybe not that one).
After staging his own suicide, a crazed scientist uses his power to become invisible to stalk and terrorize his ex-girlfriend. When the police refuse to believe her story, she decides to take matters into her own hands and fight back. Science fiction, horror, and tense relationship drama all blend together to create a brand new take on century-old genre classic, breathing new life into it and sending it rocketing into the modern era, more relevant than ever.
Join Clay and Amanda as they get faded on height-based displays of newly acquired wealth, a restaurant where they do things “a little bit different,” the email everyone wants to write their sibling, but no one actually sends, and failed attempts at cinematic universes.
Once intended to be part of Universal’s MCU-styled “Dark Universe,” their intended reanimation of its much-beloved “Universal Monsters” I.P., Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man sheds the restraints of the bloated budgets and stars of the tent pole blockbusters and gets back to basics. Its slick production focuses on the essentials of a good scary movie, while also reinvigorating a stale franchise for a new generation and a new century. If this is the direction Universal continues to go with its horror I.P., they might very well be on the road to successfully bringing back their monsters after all!
So take off the dog’s shock collar, throw white paint around the room, be paranoid and never leave the house with us…if you DARE!