The pair meet at a restaurant, where the invisible figure slits Emily's throat and places the knife in Cecilia's hand, framing her for murder. Right after she hides the suit in their former bedroom's closet, the invisible figure attacks again, so she flees and contacts Emily. She goes to Adrian's home to investigate his lab, where she finds an additional invisible bodysuit, confirming her suspicions. A violent struggle ensues but she escapes. Cecilia dumps paint down the attic trap door and it coats a previously invisible figure. She finds Adrian's phone in the attic, on which she immediately receives a text saying "surprise". Alone at the house, Cecilia tries various tactics to catch the figure she believes hit Sydney. Later, Sydney is hit by an unseen force while comforting Cecilia assuming that Cecilia did it and is becoming unbalanced, she and James leave. She believes that Adrian faked his death and used his optics expertise to become invisible in order to torment her, but this idea is rebuffed. In her bathroom, she finds the same bottle of bloodied diazepam with which she drugged Adrian during her escape.Ĭecilia, accompanied by James, meets with Tom. The doctor says high levels of diazepam were found in her system. During a job interview, she finds her work portfolio's contents removed, then faints.
Cecilia suspects another presence in the house after several strange events, but James assures her she is just traumatized and paranoid. His lawyer brother, Tom, handles the arrangements. Two weeks after Cecilia's escape, Adrian seemingly commits suicide and leaves her $5 million. One night, Cecilia drugs Adrian with her diazepam and escapes his highly secured house with the assistance of her younger sister, Emily.Ĭecilia hides out in the home of her childhood friend, Detective James Lanier and his teenage daughter, Sydney. Due to its theatrical release being cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic, the film was made available for digital rental three weeks after it premiered in the United States.Ĭecilia Kass is trapped in a violent and controlling relationship with wealthy optics engineer and businessman Adrian Griffin, the founder and CEO of the human-computer augmentation company Cobalt.
The film was also a commercial success, grossing $145 million worldwide against a $7 million budget. It received positive reviews from critics, with praise for Moss's performance and themes on domestic abuse. The Invisible Man was released in the United States on February 28, 2020. After Universal moved away from a serialized universe to standalone films, the project reentered development in 2019 with Whannell attached. An attempt at reviving the project in 2016 as part of Universal Pictures' cinematic Dark Universe was also cancelled following the critical and financial failure of The Mummy in 2017. Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid, Harriet Dyer, and Michael Dorman appear in supporting roles.ĭevelopment on a contemporary film adaptation of the novel began in 2006, but was halted in 2011. It stars Elisabeth Moss as a woman who believes she is being stalked and gaslit by her putatively deceased ex-boyfriend ( Oliver Jackson-Cohen) after he acquires the ability to become invisible.
Wells' novel of the same name, a reboot of the 1933 film of the same name and the eighth installment in The Invisible Man franchise. The Invisible Man is a 2020 science fiction horror film written and directed by Leigh Whannell.
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