Cocky researcher, Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible and he's so confident he's found the right formula that he tests it on himself and soon begins to vanish. The only problem is – no-one can determine how to make him visible again. Caine's predicament eventually drives him mad, with terrifying results.
This movie contains 50 potentially triggering events.
The death of the dog in this movie legitimately scarred me as a child. The hollow man kills it when he’s walking passed the cages while he’s invisible.
I wish I could give a time stamp but I could never ever watch this again. This is movie is why I have to come to this site now.
Vee
A woman is raped by an invisible man. She’s barely a character in the film, since she has no given name or any development other than being an object of desire for the main character. Her rape is never mentioned after the event, making it scene only for shock value.
A rat is carried by the tip of its tail. This is completely the wrong way to handle a rat. It causes pain and distress to the animal (imagine being lifted off the ground by your toe), and the rat may deglove its own tail as it struggles to escape.
The film opens with a graphic scene of a rat being fed to an invisible caged animal. The predator lifts the rat off the ground and squeezes it until the rat explodes into blood.
A feeder rat is carried by the tip of its tail and can be seen struggling. The rat is killed shortly thereafter. Rats should never be handled this way, as it is painful to the animal and the rat can twist the tip of its own tail off in an attempt to escape.
The movie mainly takes place in a research facility. Many animals, including monkeys, gorillas, dogs, cats, etc., can be seen in cages throughout the movie.
in one scene, an invisible kevin bacon undoes the top of his sleeping colleague, exposing her breast. he gropes her and she wakes up in alarm, unsure of what has happened. later, he runs his hands over her chest after snapping her neck.
in another scene, an invisible kevin bacon sneaks into the apartment of a neighbour that he has been peeping on and rapes her. he leaves her bruised and crying on the bed.
in another scene, kevin bacon's ex girlfriend dreams that he undresses her and forces her legs apart while she's sleeping. multiple times throughout the movie he tries to kiss her and touch her against her will.
In a very literal sense; Cain (Kevin Bacon) tells a ‘joke’ about Superman assaulting Wonder Woman, with the punchline being that he accidentally assaulted the invisible man instead.
While some may not consider it body horror; we do watch the leading man go from visible to invisible includes lots of looking at every layer of organs and insides. He later runs around half visible with muscle and bits exposed, unharmed, but gnarly none the less.
It’s not really mutilation but while turning invisible, the main character’s penis is visible and it doesn’t have skin (but it’s because his skin is turning invisible not because of any violence)
There is a mention during Kevin Bacon’s ‘transformation’ scene that his brain electricity is abnormal and he’s about to have a seizure. This scene is mid-invisible-ation so it’s unclear if bacon is in fact having a seizure or if he’s just writhing in pain/pulling against his restraints, but either way it certainly appears like one.
Many of the deaths in the movie are quite gory (a rat is killed in a close up, a dog is killed on screen, one man is drowned, another falls on a pipe neck first, two people are impaled, etc.)
It’s stated in the beginning that the serum could cause aggression and behavior changes. But the main character who took the serum likely just let himself go alongside the serum effects. I’d say he would classify as some sort of mentally ill.
Yes, Kevin Bacon’s character spies on many people throughout the movie, including his neighbor whom he watches undress more than once through her window and who’s apartment he breaks into to scare and eventually assault.
I wish I could give a time stamp but I could never ever watch this again. This is movie is why I have to come to this site now.
Vee