The Invisible Man review, HeyUGuys
The week started with Harvey Weinstein being pulled away in handcuffs; it ends, appropriately, with the release of a fantastically fraught horror movie about domestic violence towards women. Writer/director Leigh Whannell’s absorbing, upsetting, and more grounded version of The Invisible Man stands as a loose remake of the 1933 original (itself an adaptation of the 1897 novel by H.G. Wells), but radiates with genre-clashing originality: an ominous implosion of horror, sci-fi, and psychological realism.
Elisabeth Moss plays Cecilia, a San Francisco architect who escapes an abusive relationship, quietly and dangerously sneaking away in the dead of night. Her soon-to-be-invisible partner Adrian (a mostly obscured Oliver Jackson-Cohen) is the Lead of Optics at a tech company, and went through severe, expensive lengths to keep Cecilia contained and servile to his wishes. This includes developing a suit wielding hundreds of small cameras to create the illusion of invisibility.
