![]() In an interview with Buzzfeed News, Whannell spoke about how the movie came to be a commentary on the importance of believing women when they share their experiences. We feel it too, but still, we doubt her.” ![]() “Everywhere she goes-and especially when she’s at home at night-she feels Adrian’s eyes on her,” writes TIME’s film critic Stephanie Zacharek of Moss’ Cecilia. ![]() It takes security footage of an invisible force killing a slew of hospital guards as well as James and Sydney themselves being attacked to clear Cecilia’s name of wrongdoing. And not only do they not believe her, they also think that she’s guilty of the crimes he’s committing. Keep an eye out for the way Moss and Hodge cleverly play against an enemy that’s really, truly invisible when you stream the film again - or, better still, if it’s your very first time.Įither way, The Invisible Man is now out of on-demand hiding and ready to stream anytime on Peacock.For Cecilia, convincing even those closest to her, like her sister Emily (Harriet Dyer), longtime friend James (Aldis Hodge) and James’ teenage daughter Sydney (Storm Reid), that she’s telling the truth about Adrian is a near-impossible task. Thankfully, it all worked, of course: Critics loved The Invisible Man and praised both Moss and Hodge for performances that effectively persuaded viewers that the movie’s abusive boyfriend (played in the non-invisible scenes by Oliver Jackson-Cohen) had actually hit on a tricky technology that let him hide himself in plain sight. The rig that they put the camera on is a rig they’ve built that’s special to Leigh and what he’s doing.” If you’ve seen Upgrade, then you already know how fantastic their work is and how they shoot things. ![]() “We were working with the same stunt team that had on Upgrade. “Everything leading up to it was a lot of training with the stunt team,” said Hodge. But Whannell’s prior action work on Upgrade paid off with refinements that carried over to The Invisible Man - with the twist, of course, that the “invisible” part of the fighting equation, in this case at least, was actually true… even behind the scenes. Tussling with the literal thin air is an especially nuanced fighting art one that could’ve easily ushered The Invisible Man’s most crucial action sequences far beyond the line of believable horror and into the laughably sketchy realm of unintentional physical comedy. Where Was 2020's The Invisible Man Filmed? RELATED: Universal Classic Monsters, ranked: Frankenstein, Dracula, and more But the bigger sales job came in leaning on the actors themselves: After all, they’re the only part of the action that audiences could actually see - and as it turns out, that’s exactly how things went down on the set. Special effects played a role in helping carry out that make-or-break mission, of course: A super-cool “sneak suit,” plus all the stunt and action expertise Whannell carried over from his previous movie Upgrade, did their part in making the Blumhouse-produced fright fest feel real. Director Leigh Whannell set Elisabeth Moss and co-star Aldis Hodge, among others, with a decidedly unenviable task in 2020’s The Invisible Man (stream it here on Peacock): Convince audiences that every tense encounter with the film’s hidden baddie looks and feels like the unseen threat is actually scary - and, perhaps even tougher, that it's really there in the first place. Of all the old-school movie monsters in its storied classic library, Universal Pictures had to go and dust off what might just be the trickiest one of all for a modern-day movie remake.
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