UGHHHHH.
They have already ruined this movie. Elizabeth Moss and the guy from Hill House are too great of actors for this crap. The title of the movie should NOT expose the plot of the whole movie. The trailer for the movie should NOT be a condensed version of the whole movie. Blumhouse.....dude...you fudged it. If you would like to see the trailer yourself, click here.
So EM is in abusive relationship with a man named Adrian. She decides to run away and leave him one night. He "kills himself" and in his will, he leaves 5 million dollars to EM provided she is not mentally incompetent. The rest of the trailer shows odd situations happening that makes us question whether he actually died. [Obviously a ploy to make her look crazy so he can torment her out of getting the 5 million dollars. Which I think she should not be trying to get anyway]. The trailer eventually shows the invisible Adrian attacking police, holding up a phone and taking pictures, breathing cold air behind her, leaving handprints on the show glass, and materializing in some weird glass form.
I'm sure we're going to waste the first 2/3rds of the movie playing the whole "is she crazy or not?" game, but it will all be for naught because we know she is not crazy. (Unless the twist is she is crazy and she was doing everything the whole time, Shutter Island style, which I doubt will happen but maybe). So the latter 1/3rd of the movie will be finding techniques/strategies to expose and kill The Invisible Man. Since this is a Blumhouse movie, they will also fudge the ending. My guess, she uses a variety of liquids including maybe something gross to be able to see him and kill him. We'll get a great performance from EM. Maybe the guy gets away and maybe it is a cliffhanger. Either way, I expect this movie will not be satisfying. This film also does not deserve to be inspired by the 1933 original film (and book).
WHAT THEY SHOULD HAVE DONE
...is make the trailer similar to the trailer for Unsane (see here). They should have stopped their trailer at 1:22. We should be taken on a rollercoaster throughout the film of trying to figure out if there actually is an Invisible Man. Since the trailer ruined that mystery for us, they are really going to have to make this movie worthwhile and add some unthinkable twist.
Ultimately, I think this movie is supposed to be about the psychological scars and demons left after a domestic violence relationship and the trials and tribulations of getting through the aftermath (since leaving is not the end). So, let's just call this movie, PTSD.
I might go see this in February. I might wait until it is on Netflix. We shall see.