2020 Directed by Leigh Whannell
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.
Elisabeth Moss Aldis Hodge Storm Reid Michael Dorman Harriet Dyer Oliver Jackson-Cohen Benedict Hardie Zara Michales Renee Lim Sam Smith Nick Kici Vivienne Greer Anthony Brandon Wong Serag Mohammed Nash Edgerton Nicholas Hope Cardwell Lynch Xavier Fernández Cleave Williams Brian Meegan Amali Golden Dennis Kreusler Michael Knott Randolph Fields
Leigh Whannell Jason Blum Rosemary Blight Ben Grant Jeanette Volturno Kylie du Fresne Beatriz Sequeira
Blumhouse Productions Universal Pictures Goalpost Pictures Nervous Tick Screen Australia Government of Australia The New South Wales Government
Bilti Nir'eh, O Homem Invisível, El Hombre Invisible, Der Unsichtbare
mixed feelings about this one! LOVE the decision to plumb horror from the deadly frustration of not being believed — thing is, other movies have pulled it off with greater precision (Rosemary’s Baby, Unsane, even Take Shelter), and i think it’s because they’re more character focused.
cecilia is in every scene, but it still never feels like we truly know her as a person? that’s by no fault of My Favorite Scientologist elisabeth moss, who truly carries this thing — it’s majorly script-related. it is in fact possible for horror/thrillers to have well-written scripts! wish blumhouse knew this!
anyway, i wanna rewatch Gone Girl
The utter hopelessness of the situation the main character is put in is one of the scariest things I've seen in a movie in years
can't decide if that tech dude's mansion would be a good place to be quarantined or a terrifying / desolate / super drafty place to be quarantined. although at this point i'm starting to feel like *any* house — even the kind of desolate cliffside fortress that 's basically just what a billionaire tech bro might design after watching HEAT once — would be nice to be stuck inside these days. at least my son can't crawl yet. and my local walgreens finally got a second type of pop-tarts (s'mores! so sick of that icing-free chocolate chip shit. even during a terrifying global pandemic with no end in sight that just doesn't cut it). anyway, what were we talking about? oh, right, The Invisible Man. yeah, this is good. but you know that already. hope everyone out there is holding up (and staying in).
Even when men are invisible they’re causing fuckin problems. Stay where we can see you fuckers
Fun! Draws out the suspense a little too long before really escalating things but when it does, look out. Actually got a startled "Whoa!" out of me. Whannell makes good use of negative space and fun camera tricks to maximize the tension of exactly where you know the guy has to be, and the attack sequences are fast and violent. There's a mid-film setpiece in a hospital that's just fantastic. And despite being absolutely undeniably about the most extreme possible version of gaslighting, thankfully nobody ever uses the word gaslighting.
Verbatim, from my screening notes:
“This is a good fucking movie.”
(Good was underlined, Letterboxd won’t let me underline.)
Full review at ScreenCrush.
THE HORROR GENRE IS ALIVE AND WELL EVERYBODY SAY THANK YOU MISS ELISABETH MOSS
Probably my fave second film of the year. Only behind Birds Of Prey.
Leigh is just killing it (no pun) with this and the incredible Upgrade that literally no one saw release week.
I saw it the day it came out on a Saturday to a empty theater
So can't wait for his next film.
More thriller than straight up horror, Leigh Whannell breathes new life into the Invisible Man by delivering a fresh, modern context about abusive relationships that interestingly reframes how we view the classic story.
Honestly really well shot and has a lot of suspense but there is some pretty goofy parts. Idk I didn’t really have any glaring problems with it so maybe it’s just the script. Also Elisabeth Moss is actually fucking insane.
Sorry to women but I would have just stayed at home and let oliver jackson cohen do whatever he wanted to me
elisabeth moss is hottest with blotchy skin, greasy hair, and under eye bags that would give my own a run for their money
Can’t wait to see how this ties in with the iron man and the Kung fu panda ones. Really can’t wait to see the team up one
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