Gabe Reviews Horror

This review was originally written in October 2022. Gabe's 100 Bucket List Horror Films Review #79: The Invisible Man (1933) I can't help but notice that a shockingly large number of these classic horror films seem to revolve around a tortured academic who is engaged to a respected mentor's daughter, possibly while a close friend/science partner also has eyes for the protagonist's fiancee. (Dracula, Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll, and the Mummy all share that framework.) I know cinema was still figuring out the ability to tell complex stories back then but it seriously feels like all of these movies started with a checklist they had to go down before they were allowed to become popular. The Invisible Man has a relatively simple premise: Dr. Jack Griffin is a tortured academic who is engaged to a blah blah blah, I already gave that spiel. But he's made a groundbreaking discovery- a cocktail of chemicals that, if regularly injected into a living subject, will turn the perso...

This review was originally written in 2022. Gabe's 100 Bucket List Horror Films Review #58: The Invisible Man (2020) I went into this movie knowing nothing except that everyone I talked to didn't like it. I've heard plenty of people talk about this movie like it was the worst thing to come out of 2020, so I went in expecting a huge stinker. At first, I wasn't quite sure what the fuss was about; the first forty minutes or so isn't terrible- it's not fantastic, but nothing really to write about. Then came a BIG chunk of the film where I was openly angry at whoever made this huge stinker, because a stinker it was. But that, too, passed. The end kind of brought it around (while also ruining it; more on that later) so I can definitely see why people were upset at it, and I definitely think there was a LOT of bad stuff in here, but at the same time, it wasn't so bad. I'm probably going to spoil a lot of stuff so I'll say right here that this is probably a ...