The article critiques modern horror reboots, citing failures in recent attempts like Lisa Frankenstein and the 2017 Mummy remake. However, it highlights Leigh Whannell's 2020 film, The Invisible Man, as a successful example. This film respects the original while updating its narrative focus by shifting the story to the perspective of Cecilia Kass, a victim of abuse. By reframing the narrative, the film effectively modernizes the horror experience, grossing $144 million before the cinema shutdown due to the pandemic.
Whannell showed how a modern reboot of familiar horror IP is done: take what works about the original, but don't just modernize the settings and effects; modernize the whole perspective and reveal the terrors from a different angle.
The remake, which hit theaters five years ago this week, grossing $144 million just before the 2020 lockdowns shuttered cinemas, reimagines the character as a modern billionaire: a sociopathic optics engineer named Adrian Griffin.
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