With this invisible mad man now on the loose, and ready to abuse his power, the team must find a way to stop him or risk being killed by an unseen terror. As his insanity grows, he becomes more of a threat to his team and the world around him. He grows to distrust his scientists, and especially his former lover and her new boyfriend. Days pass, and with the reversing serum not leading to promising results, Crane becomes stir-crazy from being confined in the facility. After a brief scare during the transformation, Crane turns invisible, and already starts to enjoy his newfound power. Crane succeeds in reversing the serum, but refuses to tell the government committee, as he wishes to first test the serum on himself. Sebastian Crane (played by Kevin Bacon), the team are successful in turning several animals including a gorilla invisible, but are attempting to bring it back to visibility. “Hollow Man” follows a science team working for the US government in an underground facility to research an invisibility serum. All of which I’ll be going over in this review Despite some impressive effects, much like its predecessor, the film is dumbed heavily by several issues. The problem with “Hollow Man” comes from being a dumb slasher film first and a decent story second (if the story is even close to being decent in the first place).
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Worse yet, instead of providing a complex character like “The Invisible Man”’s Jack Griffin (who was well-spoken, had a wide-range of emotions, and gave the film a chance to explore his issues with invisibility), today’s movie (“Hollow Man”) gives us a monster who was already insane to begin with, and only became worse after becoming invisible. In contrast a bad movie would stop at the invisibility and proceed with a typical slasher. The best stories do well to mix the curse with the benefits of invisibility, as a way to examine the topic closely.
The ability to become invisible is always seen as something wondrous, however the best stories try their best to showcase the various curses that comes with invisibility, such as the madness it produces from long exposure to the ability, which eventually leads into the invisible character turning insane and doing horrible deeds with their powers. Wells story, as the character and ability has been touched on by countless stories, whether as a focus or a topic.
Of course the very concept of an invisible man isn’t limited to the H.G. The story of the invisible man has spawned multiple adaptations, each with their own sequels that either continue the story or retell it in brand new ways. I said that the movie was impressive in how it utilized the effects at the time to convince you that a man was indeed invisible, and that “much like a lot of movies at the time, it combined horror elements with a dramatic story that made you sympathize with the problems the monster was going through, and to find them genuinely scary at times. Last year I devoted a week to a history of film horror, and one of the movies I covered was 1933’s “The Invisible Man”. “You know what, Matt? It’s amazing what you can do… when you don’t have to look at yourself in the mirror any more.”