Hollow Man
Total Verhoeven
November 9 - 23, 2016
Verhoeven’s last Hollywood film to date is this underrated, twisted take on The Invisible Man, with Kevin Bacon as an egomaniac scientist whose experiments with invisibility unleash his inner homicidal maniac.
Verhoeven’s last Hollywood film to date is this underrated, twisted take on The Invisible Man. Kevin Bacon is an egomaniac scientist who makes himself the human guinea pig in a top-secret, government-funded invisibility experiment—but this newly acquired “power” unleashes his inner homicidal maniac. Verhoeven makes inventive use of state-of-the-art special effects (ever wondered what an invisible man looks like underwater?) in this satisfyingly pulpy thriller, which is, “like his other films, the work of a macabre moralist who’s fascinated by the shape of our worst impulses” (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader).
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