It’s always good discovering that Jason Blum of Blumhouse Productions produced the suspenseful film you’re about to watch.

Right now, for the peculiar and shocking, you can hardly go wrong. Even when the film isn’t of the horror genre, in particular, the stories they get behind have a unique way to frighten you and to send a chill up your spine when you least expect it. ‘The Invisible Man’ is the perfect example of this. In the opening, we see Cecilia (Moss) creeping around as Adrian (Jackson-Cohen), the man she was in bed with moments earlier, still sleeps. He’s unaware that Cecilia is going through the well-protected house, disarming security cameras and alarms.

She isn’t doing this to make the home less safe. She does this so she can make her escape. What you can deduce at this point is that she’s terrified of getting caught and stopped. This is anything but a happy home. Instead, it seems something of a prison for her. In an incredibly unnerving scene, she gets picked up by her sister, Harriet (Kass), and the house gets smaller in the rearview mirror. 

This entire opening scene is so well structured, you’re biting your nails the whole time watching. You hope Cecilia doesn’t ever get caught by him. You hope for the best. Wait, you don’t even know her. With several jump scares to keep you on edge, you’ll agree with me that this was an outstanding opening scene. The rest of the film is just as good.

After all of this, Cecilia is invited to live with Harriet’s boyfriend, James (Hodge), to keep her comfortable. Though he and his teenage daughter Sydney (Reid) are the perfect hosts, Cecilia is troubled. Her behavior is worrisome. She’s paranoid, uneasy and unable to relax. Adrian has done severe damage to her confidence and personal wellbeing. She sees him everywhere. She takes unbelievable steps to ensure he is unable to find out where she resides. 

Harriet comes to see her, and Cecilia worries that Adrian will now know where to find her. However, Harriet has good news. Adrian is dead. For a moment, Cecilia is relieved. That’s short-lived. She articulates why she thinks his death makes no sense, ‘…he was in control of everything.’ Adrian’s brother makes an appearance to tell her of her inheritance. This becomes disturbing and a bit sadistic.

The scenes get more frightening, and as they do, Moss gets better. As she feels his presence, she makes the audience feel as if someone is watching them, too. She lumbers around the house looking for what she knows must be there, yet she hasn’t the ability to confirm it. Coffee grounds and a bed sheet are used in rather ingenious ways to see if someone is there. So, she can’t quite prove it, but she knows what she feels is real. This is fantastic! 

I won’t go into everything that happens in the film because you absolutely have to discover it for yourself. What is done to her, you must experience as it’s being done to you. There are so many intense scenes where this young woman goes prowling around, looking for trouble, you’ll practically be covering your eyes the entire time! As I experienced it, I want that for you. If only for the fun tussles with an invisible man, you must go see this on the big screen as soon as humanly possible.