Invisibility Ain’t No Joke: The Hidden Seriousness of Leigh Whannell’s “THE INVISIBLE MAN”

The original The Invisible Man (1933) contains a lot of comedy absent from the other famous monsters’ films. However, even within these “gags” and any of the silliest interpretations, they’ve provided a much-needed groundwork for Whannell’s version to be realized. Despite any joke, The Invisible Man is the most horrifying Universal Monster because he represents real terror… the immunity of privilege.