The invisible man

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• Genre: Terror

In a play full of common sense, the Australian actor who became a director specialized in horror films Leigh Whanell has not pretended to be faithful to HG Wells's novel or, much less, make a remake of the homonymous classic signed by James Whale in 1933. What Whanell has done is to take as a starting point the premise of the English writer's story about a scientist who discovers how to become invisible and uses the finding to do evil and move it to the present day to turn it into a contemporary nightmare full of news that does not It is but a blunt allegation against gender violence. Raised as a pure and hard horror movie, here the science fiction part is relegated to the background, because what matters is not invisibility or not (in fact, there is not even a minimal allusion or an explanation of the process by the which has been reached) but the harassment, the persecution without truce and the physical and psychological violence suffered by a woman at the hands of a ruthless and sociopathic individual, faced with the skeptical indifference of those around her.

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a tight and well balanced combination of tension, suspense, scares and shocks with an ubiquitous elisabeth moss

It is true that the movie has a hard time starting , with an excessively long and somewhat tricky prologue, but it is also that when it does it takes little time to acquire cruising speed thanks to a tight and well balanced combination of tension, suspense , scares and shocks since the ubiquitous Elisabeth Moss is able to play with several records to compose a suffered less linear protagonist than it might seem a priori.

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