HOLLOW MAN: Exploring Kevin Bacon's Ugly Adaptation of The Invisible Man

[@RyanHollinger]

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[@solemnlament9757]

Thanks for another great video! I'd love to see your take on the Child's Play/Chucky franchise! Thanks again!

[@boobootittleman7299]

I’d love to see a video on ‘Midnight Mass’, ‘Doctor Sleep’ or ‘Storm of the Century’. Keep up the good work!

[@schulzbrianr]

1) Lord of Illusions 2) Ravenous (1999, with Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle)

[@EggyGames42069]

Could you please cover Bryan yuzna's society, its becoming one of my favourite horror films

[@DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose]

As Above, So Below (2014) Mr. Jones (2013) Underworld series (2003-2017) - The first film turns 19 y/o today btw. Soulmate (2013) Spike (2008) Frankenstein (2015) dir. by Candyman's Bernard Rose

[@blinkk07]

I dig that the movie was titled “Hollow Man” to describe his lack of morality instead of his lack of physical appearance.

[@skylx0812]

A little like the Wes Craven tv movie, "Chiller" about a man brought back from cryofreeze, but without a soul, and something else hops in.

[@kyrauniversal]

Exactly!

[@conar-jaybenner1472]

@@skylx0812 never heard of that cool

[@samusfan117]

More like lack of substance in this movie AMIRITE

[@river8142]

This^^^^

[@BigJigglyPanda]

This movie and Bacon’s performance have stuck with me for years after I first saw it in a sneaky HBO viewing with no parents around. He plays the depravity so well, even if a bit hammy.

[@krisstoffer3570]

Hello panda 😆 hope you are doing well and are ok

[@krisstoffer3570]

It is such great performance by kavin and one of my favourite invisible man films

[@conar-jaybenner1472]

I saw this movie when I was like 13 on tv

[@anubusx]

The dog's death still haunts me.

[@shannonbayley3684]

Bacon loves hamming it up.

[@MJBiddy1]

Hollow man still holds up- I’d argue it shares more thematically with Jekyll and Hyde than Frankenstein; that idea of what would you do if nobody could stop you. The CGI is awesome from the period and the body mapping was actually used in medical schools for over a decade.

[@Bane_Amesta]

Wow that last part I had no idea, but it doesn't surprise me. The CGI is amazing and is nice to see it was useful to science.

[@NoirFan84]

Kevin Bacon is one of the most likeable actors even playing some of the most despicable characters.

[@LucyLioness100]

He plays it so well

[@JBravoEcho09]

Yes, love him in Cop Car!

[@patanouketgersiflet9486]

One can never have enough Bacon, Kevin that is.

[@homelesshannah50]

You think this is bad you should check him out as the brutal, pedophile guard in Sleepers

[@NoirFan84]

@@homelesshannah50 Seen him in it. Seen him as a pedo in The Woodsman too. I had these characters in mind.

[@trinaq]

It's terrifying that Kevin Bacon's character sexually assaulted his neighbour, and she has no clue what really happened to her.

[@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan]

One of the most fucked up scenes for sure. But also one I think a lot of men would do if they got this power.

[@x.x208]

@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan extremely sad but true

[@theirishpotato6588]

Reminds me of the hentai called invisible stud

[@zackyvwasin339]

That scene was truly horrible but also real, but if this movie was made today, it'll probably get cancelled from 5 miles away

[@lainiwakura1776]

@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan Not just men, I'm sure plenty of women would take advantage of it too.

[@Kyle_MJ]

I know this movie is messed up, but I’m a sucker for “the invisible man” story. Plus Kevin bacon is just insane so why wouldn’t I watch it?

[@sars910]

I thought Kevin Bacon was very good in this, he portrayed exactly the kind of guy who would do heinous stuff if given such power.

[@iusedtowrite6667]

Exactly. He absolutely nailed it. Some of the scenes (especially the unbuttoning the top scene) just showed the creepy and heinous stuff

[@RyanHollinger]

He's super underrated imo

[@jacks1754]

He also shows that in Sleepers which is like mega fucked up

[@ajax3310]

You should read some interviews he did at the time about the character lol. Yikes

[@5wheels178]

@@ajax3310 elaborate

[@devintarr936]

Honestly the part that stuck with me the most is when he is covered in blood and tranquilizers the vet and while she is passed out, snaps her neck. The visuals and her pleading for him not to tranquilize her and being helpless just gave me a stomach turning feeling.

[@bigbearkat2010]

Honestly the one that got me as a kid was Greg Grunberg who after being seemingly the most lenient with Sebastian gets his throat slit and is left with nothing to do but but spend the last minutes of his life bleeding out on the floor.

[@esyphillis101]

That’s not even the worst part. Right before he tranquillises her he reveals to her he molested her when she was asleep. Doubly traumatising.

[@homelesshannah50]

Well he does play a pedophile in Sleepers so.......

[@Bullboy_Adventures]

Same here. The way he died was so realistic, he simply bleed to death

[@DokkaChapman]

It's a shame that the director hated it so much he disowned it, because in all honesty 'Hollow Man' is a cult classic! The CGI was ground breaking at the time and a lot of effort was put into figuring how how to make Bacon show up in water & smoke. Also there's the use of Sunna's awesome track 'Power Struggle', which not only manages to link the song's lyrics into the theme of the movie, but is a total banger!

[@doltBmB]

The CGI was fucking ugly even back then. I hate how young people are impressed with bad effects just because they are old.

[@DokkaChapman]

@@doltBmB Mate, I'm 34. I was working in A video rental store when this came out! XD

[@WingMaster562]

@@doltBmB the CGI looks great

[@doltBmB]

@@WingMaster562 for a cartoon

[@TheMOVIEMANIAC13]

If he thinks the first one is bad he hasn't heard that there's a sequel

[@maidenlessjessofchaos4484]

This is one of my "funny behind the scenes" movies, the stories you break out at a party. They spent a ton of time and money on Kevin Bacons "penis physics." Getting the swing and weight just right during the scenes where it would be visible, like to pool

[@skylx0812]

Well, it isn't made of muscle, but a spongy membrane type of material, so it wouldn't move like the rest of the anatomy. CGI's chance to shine, I guess. And every achievement in archetictual advancement is often phallic shaped. 😏

[@Imaproshaman7]

You gotta appreciate that kinda effort though, y'know? Haha. Neat.

[@maidenlessjessofchaos4484]

@@Imaproshaman7 oh, abso-LUTE-ly you do. One has to respect the loving, professional way they got the jiggle juuuust right

[@mckenzie.latham91]

Priorities were in the right place on this one.

[@Hayatehiroyuki25]

If there is ever a conversation about Hollow Man, whether people love it or hate it, someone will always bring up that Kevin Bacon CG penis.

[@mikaismay]

I watched Hollow Man when it came out and I was about 8 or 9. This movie is actually what introduced me properly to Kevin Bacon and his portrayal in this film genuinely terrified me so much that, for a long time after, I had difficulty not associating him with the fear I felt watching this film. It was hard explaining why Kevin Bacon scared me when most people associated him with Footloose. 😅

[@Rikrobat]

This was the first film I saw him in as well, so I absolutely understand what you mean!

[@gothgirl4evr414]

I'm so sorry you didn't get introduced to him with Footloose I personal couldn't imagine not associating him Footloose before anything else.

[@megatronjenkins2473]

It was Tremors that introduced me to Kevin Bacon, and I'm still mad about the Tremors series with his comeback being not picked up.

[@mikaross4671]

@@megatronjenkins2473 He's so good in Tremors!

[@RoseKoneko]

Oh, same. Didn’t he also do Stir of Echoes?

[@LonkinPork]

I'm a staunch defender of this movie, but in a So Bad It's Good way. Kevin Bacon goes absolutely bananas and it's mesmerizing, and there are some seriously bewildering directing/cinematography choices that give it a campy vibe that I can't bring myself to disparage

[@LucyLioness100]

I’m in the same camp

[@TaskMaster5]

I don't think it deserves the 'so bad it's good' label. It isn't a bad movie. It isn't 'great' but it isn't bad. It's a decent but unsettling film.

[@iusedtowrite6667]

I just love how unapologetically fun this movie is. It has it moments. But for the most part it's just so unhinged and wild, just so fun to watch. It's honestly one of my fav to re-watch, just to see Kevin Bacon be wild

[@Aloysius2113]

yeah, i love watching Kevin Bacon go... ham

[@rvre]

You're just going through my teenage movies one by one at this point. And I couldn't be happier for the nostalgia trip, once again.

[@Subsaibot2526]

That grape scene really messed with my head. I can't imagine the amount of therapy that woman would have to go through and nobody believing her but seeing evidence of her attack.

[@wy4553]

Hollow man was a solid film. I rewatched it a year or two ago and thoroughly enjoy it. The VFX still holds up fairly well, even though you can now clearly tell that it's CG. I just really appreciate the effort and creativity in showing each system of the human body as he turns invisible. And that rape scene is so disturbing and effective that it's basically imprinted in my brain. When Kevin Bacon's character shrugged off the rape as "no one will know" it just felt way too fucking real.

[@evilincoln23]

I think another interesting ending would have him escape at the end and Elizabeth shue’s character always having to wonder, if every time she hears any ambient sound or feel something brush against her skin she’s always having to look over her shoulder.

[@nopenotme1138]

I vividly recall the shot of Sebastian, invisible, splashing water on his face during previews and as a kid, it scared the shit out of me. Thanks for the vid, Ryan! 🤘

[@bulkeh]

I was 11 years old and my friend's father took us to the movies, and was like "oh, Kevin Bacon, I like him" so we watched it, and... yeah, I hadn't ever seen anything like that. We were all shocked. After the movie ended my friend's father was like "welp... I can't undo that mistake. Sorry girls!" Warped my fragile little mind.

[@bubblewrapstargirl]

Do they not have age restrictions in the cinema in America or something? How the hell were you able to see this film aged 11 in the cinema?!

[@brandon17760]

@@bubblewrapstargirl if you have an adult with you, you can watch R rated films

[@bulkeh]

@@bubblewrapstargirl cause I was with an adult. He didn't notice the rating of the movie, he only noticed Kevin Bacon.

[@eli-jah_ayon]

​@@bulkeh man has his priorities lmao

[@LadyBrightcynder]

The CG effects are really impressive for the time. There's a lot of detail with the nerves and blood vessels and such.

[@wstine79]

I'm a sucker for an Invisible Man/ Woman movie. Especially the Universal Monster ones. Kevin Becon was fantastic in the title role. Plus, the Invisible transformation process was great.

[@shadowleon659]

I personally think that this film is beyond underrated in my opinion. I loved the fact that it from the villain's perspective.

[@comicbookreviewer4856]

To me there is a message and a moral that there are something mankind is not meant to mess with as the Point of Sabastian was meant to think he was beyond everyone and turn himself Invisible well not admitting his own mistakes and screws ups showing it best to leave what god intended alone

[@angelofmusic1992]

I actually saw this movie for the first time a couple of months back and I found it very entertaining. I loved how becoming visible/invisible wasn’t this instantaneous process. First your bones reappeared, then your veins/muscles, then your organs, then the rest of your body. It made for a lot of shots that made me go “Ewwww!” 😆

[@CaulkMongler]

I’m so surprised my parents let me and my sister watch this as children. We would watch this movie on loop because it was one of the few movies we owned on video cassette. Looking back, this movie is pretty horrific even without taking into account we were kids.

[@DemonandAngellife]

Lmfao my parents looked at me and my bro as the adult we are now and with a laugh says "there were movies i probably shouldn't have let you guys watch"

[@Kourinthia]

I would like to hear your take on The Truman Show. It isn't technically horror but it is psychological science fiction and it really itches that part of the brain that tells you everyone is talking/thinking about you and you don't know it. There is also a commentary on voyerism that is even more prescient today than when it first aired.

[@gothgirl4evr414]

I kinda feel like social media has made most people act like they are their own personal Truman Show.

[@Neyebureturns]

This movie has a special place in my mind, because it was one of the first horror movies I saw from beginning to end in a Halloween party. The sequel is more of the same, but this time the invisible man is a soldier and it happens outside the lab.

[@finleylippitt7124]

I love the fact ryan is so worried about age restriction he actually blurs the skeletons bone

[@Acidfrog475]

Man’s got standards

[@a.m.studios6126]

Sold his artisitic integrity to YT censorship.

[@Necromediancer]

@@a.m.studios6126 how dare he worry about making money instead of letting me see a peen for a second

[@toyotatacoma1616]

I broke out laughing at the censored Showgirls poster.

[@mysticthemanakete]

At about 7 minutes in while you discuss the main character and how he's portrayed by Kevin Bacon, for some reason my mind compared the way his evil nature is enhanced by the experimental formula to how the results of Deadpool's experimental 'treatment' enhances his erratic behaviour and personal eccentricities.

[@Mankey619]

One of the best thing in this movie is the scene where Kevin Bacon’s character is slowly turning invisible. That alone is one of the best thing about that movie.

[@Recoil0807]

I watched Hollow Man in theatre with parents when I was six (there was no age rating control in Russia in early 2000). It was my first theatre experience and I loved it. One of personal favourites since despite of overall hollowness (pun intended) in comparison to another Verhoeven works. Surprised you didn’t mention x-rated cut, full rape scene is horrifying.

[@AA-cf4es]

Я тоже смотрела его в детстве в кинотеатре, только постарше, может быть,лет в 10... :) Мой папа определенно чувствовал себя _неловко_

[@cooperminion825]

There's an X-rated cut? 😳🙂

[@Recoil0807]

@@cooperminion825 to be frank it is unrated director's cut, + 7 minutes.

[@BigSlimyBlob]

@@cooperminion825 There isn't. There's a cut with 7 minutes of extra footage (for the entire film), but that particular scene is the exact same. The extended version does include an "aftermath" scene of the girl, crying and bruised, which people found to be too much. It's only maybe 15 seconds, but it makes you realize more acutely the extent of the brutality and psychological damage of what he just did. They wanted the invisible man's corruption to seem a little more gradual than that, so they removed that part. There is also an extra censored version where most of the assault scene is removed, so much that you can't even tell what happened.

[@cooperminion825]

@@BigSlimyBlob ah

[@B1998-u6i]

I randomly caught this on HBO years ago and as a massive Invisible Man fan, have been hooked on it since. There's something about Kevin Bacon's unhinged performance with that classic 90s horror look that just clicks for me. Edit: Agree 100% on the voyeuristic cinematogrophy making us feel like unwilling shadows and how much it fails apart at the "everyone vs Caine" ending

[@comicbookreviewer4856]

When you realize Hollow man felt like a Norman osborn movie giving the fact Kevin bacon role in the movie felt like Norman osborn who became the Green goblin

[@jadedmillion8991]

Can we agree this scene (1:47) still looks freaking great!? It's such a cool shot. Reminds me of the VFX's in The Abyss.

[@vanthdreadstar8039]

I think you are missing something? My understanding is that the invisibility serum in Hollow Man that causes rage and aggression is a side effect that progressively gets worse. I believe they explain it with the ape. It isnt JUST his spiral into madness due to him not being able to get back to visible form.

[@BigSlimyBlob]

They mention something about the ape's behavior getting more hostile, but they're not sure if it's just because she's been experimented on (the serum is extremely painful), or because she can't see herself. And once we learn that affected beings can't block light (it goes through their eyelids, they can't put their hands over their eyes and facing away doesn't do anything because the light goes through their heads), it's easy to understand why she might have been going crazy. To this day I have no idea if the serum really does cause aggression. Maybe that's canonized in the sequel.

[@Ehh97]

I watched this movie when I was WAY too freaking young, as in, its one of my earliest memories of watching a film. I somehow didn't notice the SA as a kid, but I will never forget how the gorilla killed the mouse in that one scene. Regardless, those effects hold up super well!

[@yupitsjessbbyx3]

I secretly watched this movie at 8 and it absolutely traumatized me at the neighbor assault scene

[@Hayatehiroyuki25]

This film was a movie that I watched a lot as a kid on VHS. It was an early experience into that horror/suspense genre and its effects still stuck with me. I remember when I rewatched Monsters Inc. a decade ago, during the scene of Sully being choked, I thought, "Is that a damn Hollow Man reference?!"

[@michaelfarrer3044]

I freaking loved Hollow Man when I was younger! Just like Deep Blue Sea it holds Avery special yet very strange part in my heart! A 90’s classic (2000 whatever)

[@YourNeighborhoodGaming]

When I was in the Navy I was stationed in DC when they were filming this. Production got a bunch of us in uniform to be extras for the ending. Not only did I get to take a picture with Elizabeth Shue... but when I play 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon I can say I was in that movie with Kevin Bacon... lol

[@boobootittleman7299]

Loved James Whale & Whannell’s version. While I’m not the biggest fan of this film but DAMN are those visual effects still effective.

[@SlothinAintEasy]

The original invisible man is worth a read. Especially liked the audio book read by James adams. Heck the old school black and white films are still great. One film that would be kind of left field for you to look at is called The Man Who Laughs. Be interested in hearing what you think of it.

[@spilled_beans]

No joke,I watched this too young as a kid and became terrified by the sight of Kevin Bacon's normal face alone.

[@johnsmith651]

I like this movie more than the 2020 version. I love how dark and twisted it is. The fact it stars goddess Elisabeth Shue doesn’t hurt

[@gothgirl4evr414]

I saw a picture of her yesterday and she still looks just as great at 59 as she did back in 90s.

[@LittleRedTeaCake]

I vaguely remembered seeing the movie when I was a kid, but decided to rewatch it last year and it was chilling. It was an interesting look at human nature and there was a lot more violence than I remembered, but I actually really enjoyed it, which doesn't surprise me, because I love Total Recall, Starship Troopers, and Basic Instinct. Oh man, I love your fanfic ending. That would have been great. Please cover: Ginger Snaps, Fear Street Trilogy, The Final Girls, You Might Be The Killer, The Mortuary Collection and another Kevin Bacon movie, Stir of Echos.

[@Mirakelpung]

I love this movie, and honestly I love that the special effects were so groundbreaking that they honestly still holds up pretty well.

[@ChrisMortJr.]

That one scene in this movie will always live on in my memory as the most infuriating thing I had seen in a horror movie at that point in my life. I've seen worse things now but I still absolutely hate that scene and haven't watched it since, even in rewatches. Good stuff.

[@moriahamerson]

I'm excited to hear your take on this movie. I always thought it was super fucked up and under-discussed. Edit:added I'm a little surprised, I feel like you didn't really give proper kudos to the special effects during the transformation scenes. I thought they were very well done and super fun. Aside from that, another great video!

[@LeoFieTv]

Jesus, those effects are amazing! Not just the transformation, but the invisibility itself. The hollow eyeholes in the latex mask, just perfect. I really like older CGI movies where there was a limited number of computer generated shots against real sets and real old school cinema magic. Nowadays so much is done in post that not only does the quality suffer but also CGI is so ubiquous that it looses all impact. A cool thing on the screen is no longer cool just normal. Impressive effect work is no longer proudly centered by the film language like it used to. Might just be my feelings tho. It should be mentioned tho that nowadays lackluster CGI is not the fault of artists, but of their higher ups exploiting and overworking them.

[@im19ice3]

i watched this movie in ironically unwilling circumstances, played during a long bus ride on a soundless tiny screen in the dark at night while most of the passengers were asleep, needless to say it chilled me to the bone, and earned my respect for sure.

[@hey-zel]

I got to watch so many horror movies as a little kid and there were few that genuinely scared me but this one is still at the top. As a kid being invisible sounded like a fun or cool thing to have as a power but they took that concept and turned it into something so sinister to be used to take advantage of others. Brilliant. Some of the effects might not be amazing by today’s standards but you can see the effort that was put into them and I appreciate it and the plot

[@austinshale2034]

Hey Ryan been watching your videos for 3 years now, thanks for the great content!

[@RyanHollinger]

Thanks!

[@slimkt]

Hollow Man will always be a classic to me. We rented it at Hollywood Video by chance when I was like eight. Probably shouldn’t have been watching it that young, but I think a lot of stuff went over my fairly empty head at the time. But I do remember thinking the CGI was incredible. As an adult now, it’s still pretty damn impressive, IMO.

[@xyz7572]

You should do “Bron” (The Bridge) which is a Swedish/Danish horror series in 10 episodes, which starts with a body being found laying on the bridge connecting Sweden and Denmark exactly on the border, with the head in one country and the feet in the other. This prompts a joint investigation from both countries, and it all unravels into psychological horror so horrifying it makes you question life itself. It is the most soul-rendering horror I have ever seen, and it honestly broke me when I saw it. That was almost a decade ago, and I have not been the same person since. I would love to see an analysis by you Ryan!!

[@matman000000]

Ryan, you should definitely check out Next of Kin (1982). It's a forgotten Aussie horror flick about a series of mysterious deaths at a nursing home. While the story isn't anything special, its inventive cinematography, dreamlike atmosphere and comedic moments make it a very extraordinary movie, almost like a giallo down under.

[@rossjones1530]

This is one of those films that’s genuinely terrifying even today; it’s a brilliant mixture of great VFX, a horrifying slant on the concept, and great performances. It’s nowhere near perfect, but it’s definitely _great_ in my opinion, and I’d actually love to see this remade by Whannell as well because there’s so much promise there.

[@the_real_Kurt_Yarish]

I still find this film's special effects to be impressive, especially for its time.

[@CinemaMacabro]

Seven Years before the Hollowman, Batman the Animated series had a complex and disturbing episode called See No Evil, In which an abusive ex-husband who wants custody of his daughter works in a factory that deals with a chemical suit capable of bending light, the man then uses this to see his daughter as an imaginary friend and steals jewels and money and gives it to her as gifts, he tries his hard to establish a relationship with his ex-wife again despite a protective court order but fails, and the suits chemicals when heated is slowly having an effect on his brain making him more aggressive and desperate to see his daughter. It had both similar themes in both The Hollow Man and Leigh Whannels The Invisible Man.

[@jleggett5995]

RoboCop, Total Recall, and Starship Troopers together is my favourite unofficial trilogy

[@creaty2852]

I’m always amazed how the cgi in the movie holds up so well when other movies of the era look terrible now.

[@drearmouse9510]

This was actually one of the few films that got to me in that weird way back in the day. His frantic vile erratic behaviour was just sooo palpable. Oooh, and Stir of Echoes.. fuckin loooved that movie.

[@TheMOVIEMANIAC13]

Remember when America dad referenced this movie. And I think we all saw this as kids when we were not supposed to and lastly Kevin bacon's range as an actor he can voice a heroic cartoon animal,play a rebel teen who loves dancing,a sadistic invisible man and that's not it either he's good.

[@vincentbilodeau2467]

This is one of those movies that really benefit from a rewatch on an old VHS imo, the poorer image quality makes those early CGI effects even more uncanny.

[@voidliving6922]

I wish more people would give attention to the Ginger Snap movie made in 2000. That gave a really different version of an coming of age style.

[@marga8732]

Ikr! I *love* that movie, it hooked me in when it re-imagined a certain movie monster in a more creative way! 😍

[@MojoSojoJojo]

this movie and it's effects traumatized me so much as a kid, and is a big reason I'm still kinda scared of Kevin Bacon to this day 🤣

[@moshymosh]

A more ironic ending, in my opinion, would be that the emergency services go down towards the lab after they extinguish the fires, and Kevin Bacon is still alive, very injured, but reverted back to being invisible. He's buried under rubble in a spot where you would otherwise be able to find a body. He can barely cry for help. But because he's invisible, the EMTs can't see him. Kevin dies in a slow and painful way following that.

[@KanishQQuotes]

The movie was a rage in India. It's trailer was amazing. Owing to the fact that one of the most popular family movie in India is also about invisible man, a guy who runs an orphanage gets a device to become invisible and he plays a superhero named "mr india" So this was promoted as evil "mr india"

[@glitchedsushi]

I’m pretty sure Ryan starts all his scripts with the word “hoyever” and then builds around it

[@XodusFTW]

I had watched "Memoirs of an Invisible Man" directed by John Carpenter and starring Chevy Chase about a week before this came out, which I had enjoyed as it was a cheesy dark comedy, so I had expected something similar walking into the cinema blind being dragged in by friends, boy was I wrong!

[@robertmuller1523]

I actually prefer Cronenberg's "The Fly" which shares many similarities with this one (remake of SF classic, self-absorbed scientist, animal testing, self-experiments, moral decline of the protagonist, love triangle). While I do recognize what Verhoeven was trying to achieve with Hollow Man, it just does not work out for me as well as Cronenberg's "The Fly" on an emotional level. One of the reasons why Cronenberg's "The Fly" is so effective is that the protagonist's gradual moral decline coincides with his physical decay.

[@taurinstraiter2325]

I remember watching this movie for the first time when I was in my teens about over 10 years ago and I was immediately fascinated with it. It makes a good double feature with Splice (2009), a movie where the trailer happens to go in front of every movie that was released around that time. I love that movie too. I would definitely recommend you checking it out. It doesn't hold back! Also, one of two movies where I like Josh Brolin (the other one is Into The Blue)

[@LucyLioness100]

I agree the movie has some pretty evident flaws, but I admire Verhoeven’s concept for a re-adaptation and casting Bacon was just perfect to play on that charisma but remembering he was a terrible guy in “Sleepers”. Plus the effects for the time were well executed (yes quite dated now in 2022)

[@theanarchistcook]

Tarantino's Death Proof accomplishes something similar. It's a 2-act movie where we spend act one getting to know a group of characters before the villain kills them, then spends a chunk of act 2 putting us in the villain's POV, making us complicit in his violence.

[@scpdatabase69420]

This was the first horror movie I remember watching as a child. Totally accidentally but absolutely intrigued by the movie. Couldn’t find it for years because no internet and no idea how to find the movie. Then found it again years later. Pretty classic movie. Also, why tf did you blur the skeleton pelvis in the intro shot of the video?

[@neomaxmlc]

CGI penis.

[@megatronjenkins2473]

Yeah, that was odd.

[@ZacHawkins42]

@@megatronjenkins2473 it's because there's a dick involved, and YT doesn't like that.

[@MistyWarden]

At that point in the transformation it still showed (skinless) penis and testicles.

[@makosimp5022]

This movie is why the Limp Bizkit fight from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is a thing and I will always appreciate it for that

[@PridetheFallen]

Would absolutely love your impressions on Shin Godzilla! It's a brilliant change of place to the typical Kaiju flick and I feel it did a great job with what it attempted to portray.

[@TyroneBruinsmaFilms]

I genuinely love this film and think it's one of the best films of 2000, along with probably the 3rd best Invisible Man adaptation

[@jaspervanheycop9722]

I never took this movie as saying it all went wrong because of Kevin Bacon's character, but because this sort of power would drive anyone mad. Which is way scarier. It's not "this tech could be bad if it gets into the wrong hands", but more "humanity full-stop shouldn't have this tech, it'll always be bad" Also as a Dutch person (like Verhoeven): it's pronounced ver-hoof-en. The Dutch "oe" sound is like the English "oo" sound in roof, hoof, booth. (and funnily enough we pronounce a double-o as "oh") As a big fan of his work that drives me kinda mad when I meet English speaking fans ;)

[@SpicyAir]

I never though of this movie as an invisible man adaptation. I have a distinct memory of watching this with my brother at night when we’re suppose to be asleep.

[@terroratnight5199]

After covering this film, I would love to hear your thoughts on Verhoeven's Starship Troopers(1997)! There are so many layers to it, and it is one of my favorite films.

[@iusedtowrite6667]

I honestly think its a fun take on the orginal. It doesn't compare to the original but it's not trying to in my opinion. It's honestly so campy and such a 2000s movie to me. I enjoyed it alot.

[@TititoDeBologay]

"Exploring Paul Verhoeven's ugly adaptation of the invisible man" would have been a more apt title. Verhoeven touch is all over this movie, storyboard, choice of D.O.P. , choice of Bacon as the main protagonist, VFX, themes and such.

[@gur262]

Hollow man ending up blinded and/or missing limbs would have been quite something. Surviving, but barely a threat without a very visible wheelchair/prosthetic leg. And himself blind. Needing help, inevitably ending up with the government.

[@TheGrave10der]

I have seen the second hollow Man movie. One thing I can say is that there is an interesting scene where Christian Slater's hollow Man is talking nonchalantly to a woman in an elevator, the only time we kind of see him as human. Then it turns out the only reason he doesn't necessarily kill her was because she was blind.

[@sirdidymus24]

I agree with your “fanfic.” That’s a much more suitable punishment for Bacon’s character and it would be so much scarier that the formula is still out there, possibly being used by the military.

[@fconstraints]

I went back and rewatched The Ruins because of your video from a while back and it was much better than I remembered. Worth revisiting for sure.

[@gothgirl4evr414]

I was glad when I saw he did Ruins I've always loved that movie, it's a guilty pleasure, most people I've talked to didn't like it much

[@shugendorites428]

So, I first watched this film back in 2021 on recommendation from a friend. She had it on her list of favorite horror movies. (It wasn’t at the top of the list, it was just on the list) The opening scene with the gorilla had me in hysterics. The acting was good, the effects were still great. I just lost my mind at the idea of a defibrillator being used on a invisible gorilla. It was the concept that was ridiculous to me. And then I watched as the film progressed with Crane losing his already unstable mind to the body horror in which he’d subjected himself. And then I saw the home invasion scene and remembered exactly what kind of movie I stepped into. That tense buildup, ultimately ending in that terrifying moment is what sticks with me today. Go for the gorilla antics, stay for the horror. 10/10.

[@roostthecockatiel5227]

It's like they took an unused screenplay for Hammer films'version of the invisible man, looked at it and the end result was this

[@milu3779]

oh man, i'd entirely forgotten ever having seen this movie until i saw the thumbnail and suddenly i'm dying to be told what it was about

[@sifatshams1113]

That Superman-Wonder Woman joke has stayed with me for years.

[@sidharthcs2110]

This is literally one of the first few Hollywood movies I've ever watched. Still love it

[@magoshighlands4074]

Okay but can we talk about how clever the title actually is? Because Bacon's character is figuratively hollow, a shell of a man who is not nearly as complex as he thinks he is, then he becomes literally hollow when he becomes invisible, silly but very clever

[@EBurns91]

That ExpressVPN ad is the closest Ryan will EVER talk about Morbius, and that means I can sleep peacefully at night.

[@TheLegendOfOblivion]

I never even thought of the fact that he could always see because his eyelids are invisible.

[@chriswilson3126]

I liked your idea for the ending, Ryan. Would've been nicely poetic.

[@skylx0812]

A decade earlier, Bacon after having starred in iconic teen angst films, took a look at his then pregnant wife, and fell to the sidewalk then curled up into a fetal position. He had a panic attack and said, "I have a wife and a baby, and I'm starring in a movie about giant worms under the ground!" He agonized over the direction his career had taken and worried about being able to support a family. Fortunately for him, Tremors turned out to be a hit.

[@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan]

Weird. Tremors is a classic

[@cthulhupthagn5771]

That's definitely an interesting take on the Kevin Bacon film. I don't know that I agree with it but it's definitely a take. I always saw it as more of a classic somebody hubris turns them into a monster. Kevin Bacon thinks he's God's gift to the planet, can do no wrong and people are fools to disagree with him. The consequence of going invisible and having issues like not being able to close your eyes slowly drives him insane. Sleep deprivation can drive people over the edge very easily, so for him it's almost impossible for him to get any sleep. What we see isn't necessarily excusing his behavior, but it exasperates it. Essentially, becoming invisible and the pain and suffering that comes with it pushes him over the edge and disables what little bit he had in the way of a moral compass. Because he definitely had one, he didn't do his worst things until he realized nobody could see him and he had gone a few days. It's for that reason I really don't have any interest in seeing last year's adaptation of the invisible man. I don't particularly want to see what amounts to a drama about a woman being stalked by a creeper. That sounds very much like something of its time and I don't feel like being preached to. When I watch a movie based off of a classic science fiction and a classic movie monster. Sometimes that's all you want

[@BugsyFoga]

Decided pretty visually interesting with how the effects of going invisible are presented.

[@neoluthuli3254]

The effects in Hollow Man are better than any Marvel movie of the past 3 years

[@Matrim42]

I found it kinda weird that they addressed that his eyelids are invisible so light goes right through them, but not that his lenses are invisible so they can’t focus light or that his retinas are invisible so they can’t catch light.

[@Matrim42]

Ffs, I’m getting really sick of these stupid telegram scam bots.