#The Invisible Man (2020)

[fanofspooky]

Scream Queen - Elizabeth Moss

Requested by Anonymous

[feelingsofaithless]

He said that wherever I went, he would find me, walk right up to me, and I wouldn't be able to see him. The Invisible Man (2020)

[cafenervosa]

🎃 Highlights from Drawlloween 2023 🎃

DRACULA'S DAUGHTER (1936) | THE INVISIBLE MAN (2020) THE OLD DARK HOUSE (1932) | THE UNINVITED (1944) THE BIRDS (1963) | THE BROOD (1979) PEARL (2022) | THE BLACK PHONE (2021) SPELLBOUND (1945) | I MARRIED A WITCH (1942)

See the rest on my Instagram! ID in alt text.

[talbot-larry]

Rant about Wolfman 2025 and the Whannellification of monsters

Ok so I've been doing some critical thinking about Wolfman 2025, and comparing it to Invisible Man 2020, if that can help predict what's in store for Wolfman fans. Honestly I can't remember which I saw first, 1931 or 2020 Invisible Man, while I haven't delved into reviews of 2020 by universal monster fans (scared it would be a wank about feminism in movies) I'm seeing how it was hardly an adaption of the original movie, they kept the name Griffin but that was it? So, I wasn't the devoted universal monster fan I was then as I am now, and thought the 2020 movie was brilliant. I'm sure there will be plenty of people who will view Wolfman 2025 the way I did Invisible Man 2020, because hey, Invisible Man had its moments and maybe Wolfman will too? It's ok to be inspired by the monster movies, but taking what makes them great (monsters) out of them and replacing them with more vaguely reality grounded/sci fi/frankly boring alternatives is well, boring. It may be a 'fresh new take' but is it enjoyable?

That's not to say the originals are perfect, inspiring, compelling master pieces, but I've watched the 2 og films mentioned a lot more than Invisible Man 2020 (might be because I lost the dvd tho) It's not as though the originals weren't trying to 'say something' about society, they just weren't so ham-fisted about it. Wolfman 2025 was written during quarantine, which influenced it to be a covid-esque film (trapped in a house, degenerative disease, losing loved one to said disease) which sure. Fine. As implied by Whannell, with how its influenced by 80s horror, particularly body horror there's probably a healthy dose of Cronenburg's The Fly and Carpenters The Thing in there. All of which there's nothing wrong with, I LOVE body horror and I love those 2 movies. But why make this mishmash combination a Wolfman movie? Why not a separate werewolf movie? 2010's Wolfman adaption, while flawed, was still a wolfman movie. I will say lycanthropy as a degenerative disease is a dope idea! I've been working on a story that follows a similar theme for a couple years now.

As for what I think we can expect, or rather not expect, I've been telling myself the following since the featurette. I am not going to expect a Wolfman remake. I am not going to expect even a good werewolf movie. What am I going to expect? From what Mr Whannell is promising, another 80s horror homage. A virus film. A film trying to 'say something'. I was watching a youtuber (nerdsquish) talk about the film and she said after the trailer and creature design reveal she's considering passing and waiting until streaming, unless there are rave reviews for it (tho I expect there will be from normies non-monster fans) and tbh I'm feeling the same way. I'll probably grab the first boot I find. I'll probably keep up with trailers and clips, hoping it will redeem itself and bitch about discuss it here. Which sucks cuz yall know I was looking forward to wearing that Wolfman shirt to opening night, but why give this movie money if its so...blah?

Closing remark, kinda last word here, Whannell's monster movies kind of bring that 'elevated horror' quote to mind, it goes something like 'Elevated Horror movies are for people who hate horror movies' (? I think?). Whannell's movie are for people who wouldn't be caught dead watching a movie with a rubber bat, a man covered in yak hair, Claude Rains in bandages. they're idea refitted into 'watchable' media, not 'remakes' but soulless 'fresh takes'. I'm PRAYING this doesn't become a trend.

As for my doubts, I hope Whannell can prove me wrong.

Rant over

[horrorvillaintourney]

Round 1A, Match 4: Jack Griffin (The Invisible Man) vs. Adrian Griffin (The Invisible Man [2020])

PROPAGANDA FOR JACK:

"A guy who realizes the horrifying potential of invisibility, and also just kinda f’s with people by being a pair of pants."

PROPAGANDA FOR ADRIAN:

"Creates an invisibility suit, and then uses it to gaslight his ex. He’s also an abusive asshole. I don’t like him. But he is a decent villain.…I hope someone beats him up."

[luigisvampirebae]

Hear. Me. Out.

I just think that Charlie and Oliver both can capture the himbo energy of Hercules.

[kurakuradon]

ambition/arrogance/madness

[nogoodnikolai]

i think thats why attempts to create a modern universal monster universe fail. theyre spending all their time creating new individual origin stories. buddy, you don't need to explain dracula to the general public, they get it! skip the leg work and make him fight the invisible man

[behindthescreamz]

leigh whannell directing elizabeth moss on the set of “the invisible man” (2020)

[kurakuradonn]

Do you have any voice claims for Victor, Jekyll, and Griffin?

ohoo yes I do. here’s what I hear in my brain when I draw these assholes (affectionate)

[fanofspooky]

Scream King - Oliver Jackson-Cohen

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

SUMMARY: When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.

The mod loves this movie very much, it takes such a sympathetic look at domestic violence survivors as well as realistically highlighting what life is like after leaving an abusive relationship.

[hannahwatcheshorror]

THE INVISIBLE MAN (2020)

💁‍♀️Strong Female Lead

This movie is very clean and long with dark and modern settings, it takes a spin off of the classic movie monster but nearly a decade later. Elizabeth Moss is stunning as per the usual and her character acts in ways that make sense and have purpose. The beachy scenes and lighting style reminded me of The Menu. A very thrilling watch from start to finish!

(Trigger Warning Abuse, Suicide, Self Harm)

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Elizabeth Moss plays our boss ass babe, Cecilia, who is immediately running from her horrifying boyfriend who punches out a car window when he sees she is gone (but he doesn’t have anger issues). You see her creepy ex has a lot of science and robotic stuff in a lab but that will come into play later. We fast forward a few weeks and we find out the ex died so Cee starts to feel more safe in the world… That is until the world starts being really unsafe for her like her water being “randomly” drugged and her knives being moved around… Cee figures out she's basically being haunted by her ex because he was a science genius and a creep and he didn’t actually die but instead is just spending all his time being invisible and stalking her. But that is a crazy theory for people to just believe right away so no one does (she is literally every townsperson the cops didn’t believe in the first film).

Her ex sends a really mean email to her sister which the sister takes as science fact which is so funny to me because the sisters see each other regularly but one got a strongly worded email randomly and thought, “there is no way this is fake.” Cee goes to her sister and is informed about the horrible email but when she tries to deny it the door gets slammed in her face and, again, I call mad shenanigans because if someone sent my sister an email from my account it would take her months to read it and then I would just say that I didn’t send it and she better fucking believe me or I swear to goodness. Anyway this sends Cee spiraling, her ex surprises her in the attic, he speaks for the first time (ew!) and then they get in a huge fight!

This was crazy to watch because Elizabeth Moss had to fight a green screen or (I guess) just her demons because there was nothing there, it was awesome to see (or not see). She escapes and discovers that this generation's iteration of The Invisible Man is made of a suit and not multiple injections of a gnarly chemical that makes you insane (her ex was already insane to begin with). Cee hides a copy of the suit in her secret little hidey-hole (which I’m honestly surprised her ex let her have considering he knew everything else she was doing) and then gets her sister to meet up with her but, oh boy… Her ex punishes her for “stepping out of line” by murdering her sister and framing her for it. Best (ex)boyfriend ever, right ladies?

So now Cee is under observation since she is screaming about an invisible man and said invisible man now has a front row seat to her AND his baby growing inside her? (Fun fact, she's pregnant.) She tricks her ex into appearing before stabbing him and shorting out his suit a bit, enough for a fun scene of a “now you see me, now you don’t” invisible man. This results in a lot of injured or dead cops yet somehow ends with the ex being let go because he blamed his brother.

Finally Cee has dinner with her ex, exits to slip into something more comfortable, pops on the invisibility suit, ushers her ex into his next project (being dead), and walks out with the dog. Mic drop, she is gone. (Also thanks to her cop friend who has to clean all this up for her.)

[bethanydelleman]

I was writing a Darcy POV fic once and Darcy is dramatically riding towards Elizabeth and then I wrote something like, "And his servant was following behind."

And my beta reader was like, "Um, why is this guy here?" probably because it was ruining her vibe.

Well mostly because I highly doubt Darcy could dress himself and he's gotta get all pretty for Elizabeth (horseback riding makes you gross), but also because this is one of my favourite little bits in S&S:

Amongst the objects in the scene, they soon discovered an animated one; it was a man on horseback riding towards them... In a few minutes they could distinguish him to be a gentleman... They were soon within thirty yards of the gentleman... He dismounted, and giving his horse to his servant, walked back with them to Barton, whither he was purposely coming to visit them.

There were two men the whole time.

[adamwatchesmovies]

The Invisible Man (2020)

I “saw” 2020’s The Invisible Man again and liked it even more the second time. Any disappointment you might have once you realize it is not an adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel - or a remake of the excellent 1933 film - will disappear after witnessing the magnificent performance by Elizabeth Moss, the overwhelming sense of paranoia generated by the camerawork, Leigh Whannell’s direction, or the smart way it incorporates themes of domestic abuse into its story.

Cecilia Kass (Elisabeth Moss) escapes her violent, controlling boyfriend with the help of her sister, Emily (Harriet Dyer), her friend James (Aldis Hodge) and his daughter (Sydney (Storm Reid). While hiding from Adrian (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), Cecilia learns from his brother, Tom (Michael Dorman) that he committed suicide after she left. Despite this, she becomes convinced he is alive, that he's found a way to make himself invisible and that he's now stalking her.

The usual rule in movies is “show, don’t tell”, and it’s a testament to the script by Leigh Whannell that he breaks this rule in one important way but that the film still works. What sort of abuse was Cecilia subjected to? We don’t really know. The film begins on the night of her escape. We see her check the clock in the middle of the night, carefully move Adrian’s hand away from her waist, pull a duffel bag out of a ventilation shaft, move a camera away from her exit, go down into the basement to shut off the alarms and carefully make her out. On the outside, the home looks majestic but from our point of view looks like an endless maze of suffocating corridors. Her next move is to climb the wall surrounding the property and then run through the woods to the road where her sister is scheduled to meet her. Later on, Cecilia tells us how Adrian would punish her, how eventually, he didn’t need to because he could foresee her every move and practically read her thoughts. Your imagination fills the gaps, and we’re just getting started.

It doesn’t take us too long to figure out what’s really happening. Adrian has, indeed, made himself invisible. That’s an endlessly more frightening truth than if Cecilia was still trapped inside the house with him. When she and James discuss her fears, the camera always seems a little bit too far away, like a third person needed to be squeezed into the frame. The negative space all around them becomes Adrian. It no longer matters whether he is hiding in that corner or not because he could be and the fact that he COULD be there means he’s there, slowly choking Cecilia just like before. No, not like before. Previously, she had hope. If she could make it off that property and onto the street, she would be free. Now, no one will come to her rescue because everyone believes she’s safe. Anything Cecilia says about Adrian stalking her just makes her seem unstable. Soon, she won’t have a choice. She’ll willingly decide to go back to him just so she can stop wondering if she’s being stalked or not.

Enough praise cannot be showered upon Moss for her performance as Cecilia. She plays this horribly broken person with pinpricks of who she must’ve been before Adrian showing up here and then. She’s so frightened of him that you can’t help feeling the same, particularly in those long shots at night when the camera simply stares at an empty door frame. We know there’s someone there. So does Cecilia. It’s like she’s been around the monster for so long that she can also read his thoughts. Rather than prove an advantage, it’s merely another reason to be terrified. He doesn’t need to even utter threats anymore. The threats are already there and whatever she can think of, he can counter with ease. She’s smart so there is hope but talk about an uphill battle and since this is a horror movie, you don’t know how it’s going to end. I’ll give you a hint: it’s a pitch-perfect conclusion.

 The Invisible Man is genuinely frightening and it creates terror without resorting to cheap tricks. The picture heaps suspense upon suspense, makes sure you’re invested by fashioning these great characters and gives the roles to actors who are up to the task. Masterfully directed, fresh, and relevant, it’s not merely a great horror film; it’s a great film period. (June 10, 2022)