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Cheap horror and suspense films are stacked in global theaters, because Hollywood studios know that there is an opportunity to make some money before the spring and summer that boast of high-budget movies (Blockbuster-Superhero) and their wide audience of teenagers.

At the same time, the horror movies intended here are predominantly "slap the spectator a lot of energizing slaps" with a set of frightening moments wholly dependent on fast cutting and sound effects without focusing on any story or characters. This is, of course, the cheap, and often overwhelming, type of movie.

There are very few films trying to add new ones, and adding requires a new vision, and vision often means an almost complete separation from the original source from which the film is quoted. There are many examples in this regard, most notably the Shining, Stanley Kubrick's "luster", which focused on the author's personality more than his son unlike Stephen King's novel, and there is the 1986 "Fly" version of David Cronberg who only took the structure of George Langelan's novel, adding the rest of He has, "For science the fly movie is very annoying, whether the first was released in 1958 or the mentioned Cronenberg repetition."

Today, The Invisible Man, "The Invisible Man," is on the showrooms worldwide and is adapted from H.'s novel. Ing. Published in 1897, Universal Studios released the first movie adapted from the novel in 1933 with the same name directed by James Will and starring Claude Raines.

Today, after 88 years, Universal is re-launching the movie in an attempt to alleviate the failure of its cinematic project called Dark Universe, which collapsed after the catastrophic failure of the mummy farce that we witnessed in 2017 starring Tom Cruise, in the biggest evidence that the star is not a condition for the success of a movie.

Universal intended to create a cinematic world, modeled on the world of Marvel and DC, filled with the characters of her monsters whom she released in the horror films of the thirties and forties of the twentieth century, Universal inherited after the fall of the "Mummy" and rearranged her plan with the help of Jason Bloom, who scored many successes in the revival of the new horror cinema.

Bloom came with a man who succeeded him as a writer and director, who is Australian Lee Wannel (he wrote Saw movie with a companion coached by James One, directed by Incidias 3), and Abgrid who wrote and directed the film with a new vision commensurate with the era in which we live.

Wannel transmitted the events from the late 19th century or the early 1930s to 2020, which means he has to get rid of the seemingly outdated story elements compared to the technical progress we are experiencing today. Even if updating the film according to today's technology is a double-edged sword, this does not prevent the "invisible man" from being a good and largely entertaining film.

Wannel begins with a strong start scene in which we see a woman named Cecilia (Elizabeth Moss in Wonderful Performance) organizes her escape from the home of her obsessed lover by controlling her and controlling the details of her life from her clothes to her food. Cecilia drugged her lover Adrian Griffin (Oliver Jackson Cohen) and fled.

The scene was crafted with great craftsmanship from the use of home surveillance cameras (a clear indication that it has become a prominent feature of the new Renaissance horror films) to the transverse camera movement from the far left to the far right and vice versa to cast the lens on a place free of humans, and it is also a prominent new feature of horror movies In the past decade, which alludes to the presence of an evil hidden entity somewhere in the scene.

In addition to the sound of waves breaking on the rocks against the isolated house on a hill, which adds prestige to the scene. This is perhaps the best expressive introduction to a horror movie in the last five years. In the original movie The Hero is the invisible man whom we don't see most of the film because it is hidden, in the new Cecilia is the heroine and the invisible man shrinks to just an evil element. The story is very simple, which is that Adrian commits suicide after Cecilia escapes and leaves a will in which the latter inherits his money, but she feels that something is watching her, disturbing her and destroying her life, and she knows that Adrien is not alive but is rather hidden, because he is a genius in optics and an inventor of tools that do not occur On the mind of an ordinary person, he hides it in his isolated home. Moving the tournament to Cecilia is not new, and before that Elizabeth Shaw was in the role of a woman who is fighting a crazy professor obsessed with the disappearance of his invention in the 2000 movie "Hollow Man" by director Paul Verhoeven. In general, the victory of the woman or girl in horror movies over the killer or demonic powers is a phenomenon or a wave that started since late The nineties are still continuing.

But the novelty here, and we will not mention it, is the scene of the end that appeared intrusive because Hollywood insists on politicizing the role of women in films, especially since the screening of the film coincides with the condemnation of the former filmmaker Harvey Weinstein in court and smells of the campaign «Me to». The role of Moss in the movie is very similar to the role of the late Ingrid Bergman in the wonderful George Cookor Gaslight in 1944 and the wonderful Alfred Hitchcock «Notorious» 1946, in the first is a woman who feels her husband crazy, and in the second a woman deceives a man he thinks he loves and is in fact afraid of him.

There is a scene in the movie in which we see Cecilia in the hospital looking to her left, and she sees a man sleeping on a wrapped bed, with a bandage resembling a mask that only shows his eyes. The scene will pass easily to many, but he is very smart because he is the only reference in this movie to the "invisible man" issued in 1933.

In that movie, the invisible man appeared completely wrapped in a black glasses, which is the image icon on the movie poster, and if you wrote the name of the movie by adding in 2020 in the Google engine you will find it, that is, the image is black and white next to the new movie poster.

In comparison, the face wrapped in a scary bandage more than a suit that disguises its wearers, we have seen dozens of suits like it, not a design, in Marvel films. But we say the film is a very good attempt to renew the "invisible man" and it is fun, especially if it is not a technical expert who questions the possibility of such an invention, or learn about an existing technology that enables to see hidden objects such as Google's infrared glasses, for example.

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The film is a very good attempt to replenish the "invisible man" and is amusing, especially if not a technical expert.

After 88 years, Universal is re-launching the film in an attempt to alleviate the failure of its film world project.