![]() ![]() What you have here is the development of an invisibility serum (as well as a reversing visibility serum) by a brilliant scientist, who successfully uses it on a gorilla in some of the best special effects scenes to date, and then uses it on himself. The unfortunate thing about Hollow Man was that no one involved with the making of the movie seemed to realize that. But let's face it, the possibility of human invisibility is one of the most fascinating premises that you can possibly tell a story about. Done to death, if you include literary examples. Sure, the whole invisible man thing has been done before. Hollow Man is a film that takes a fantastic premise and reduces it to yet another of these cheap imitation slasher films. In the late 90s, there have been a resurgence of these films, such as the Scream movies, which started off good and then went sharply downhill with each additional sequel, Urban Legend, and I Know What You Did Last Summer (as well as, God willing, it's only sequel, I Still Know What You Did Two Summers Ago). Ever since the original Halloween was released in 1978, there have been countless imitation films that desperately, although primarily unsuccessfully, attempt to feed off of the success of that film by copying its premise of a faceless and unstoppable killer. ![]()
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