20 Scariest Horror Movies Of The 2020s (So Far)

Leigh Whannell deserves enormous credit for taking an incredibly played-out story like The Invisible Man and updating it for the world of today in a smart and unsettling way.

The genius of 2020's reimagining is that it allows the title character's antagonism to double as a drum-tight metaphor for abuse and gaslighting - because after all, when protagonist Cecilia (Elisabeth Moss) claims her believed-dead partner is terrorising her with an invisibility suit, most folk think she's lost her mind.

And so, Cecilia spends the movie desperately trying to both escape her monstrous ex Adrian (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) and then prove to the world that she's not crazy.

It's hard not to feel Cecilia's raging frustration, and despite the film's tiny $7 million budget, Whannell does a fantastic job emphasising Adrian's presence through negative space in the frame.

Yet it's Moss' superb central performance that truly holds it all together, ensuring The Invisible Man is one of the most pleasant surprises of the decade so far.