The echoes of time reverbrate forwards and backwards, and once every now and again a piece of art is created in reaction to an event that is yet to happen. Godzilla (1998) is a post-9/11 film, despite pre-dating it by over three years.
Godzilla, in his original incarnation provided a stand-in for nuclear war - a direct reaction to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, applications of amounts of radioactive indiscriminatory force unseen before by the world at large. Later…
A solid concept for a sci-fi horror - a mechanical Frankenstein built to preserve the brain of a genius - it's got some great potential. But it doesn't really deliver much or explore the themes all that much - and the Colossus' construction looked fairly flimsy, and you can see the budgetary limitations quite clearly.
Overall it's not the worst sci-fi b-movie from it's era, but it's also certainly not the best.
I have been cursed by this film and have not known peace since watching it.
There's not really been many horror films recently featuring an invisible antagonist in a while - the most recent I can think of is It Follows and that was more a partially visible antagonist in my opinion. But The Invisible Man makes that gap seem worthwhile.
The film is well made, good, but not spectacular cinematography, but it's the sound design where the film excels - the quieter, tense moments forcing you to take in every…
