20 November 2020
The Invisible Man (2020)
Golden Globe winner Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale, Us, Mad Men) stars in this nail-biting horror-mystery, the tenth highest-grossing film of 2020 so far.
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 third stand-alone movie in Universal Pictures’ Dark Universe reboot, The Invisible Man is inspired by HG Wells’s novel of the same name, and written and directed by award-winning horror aficionado Leigh Whannell, who co-created the Saw franchise.
The cast includes Oliver Jackson-Cohen (The Haunting of Hill House and the just-released The Haunting of Bly Manor); Saturn and Black Reel award nominee Aldis Hodge (Underground, Hidden Figures, Leverage); and BET and Teen Choice nominee Storm Reid (Euphoria, A Wrinkle in Time).
The Invisible Man won Best Adapted Screenplay and Elisabeth Moss was named Best Actress at the Hollywood Critics Association’s 2020 Midseason Awards.
The Invisible Man has a 91% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with Rolling Stone saying, “Alive with fresh thinking from Whanell and a dynamite Elisabeth Moss, this socially conscious horrorshow tips the old monster mash into way scarier sh*t about toxic masculinity that’s as timely as #MeToo and Harvey Weinstein in handcuffs.”
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