10 Hidden Things You Missed In The Invisible Man

2. Homage To Horror

Director Leigh Whannell is a horror lover: he’s acted in, written and directed more horrors than I can count.

In the parking lot fight scene, Whannell drops a cheeky reference to one of his own films: a piece of graffiti depicting Billy the Puppet, the doll the Jigsaw Killer uses in Saw, a film that he wrote and starred in.

Without being too cliché, he makes use of horror tropes throughout as well, like the classic Conjuring ‘duvet-pull’, the ‘dramatic unmasking’, Adrian as a ‘mad scientist'.

More specific references include the bandaged man who stares at Cecilia in the hospital, based off the original Invisible Man design, and one barely noticeable shot of Cecilia staring out the window that's a replica of a famous scene in Heat, of which Whannell says he appreciated - particularly Michael Mann’s “clean framing”.