The Invisible Man
When it strike theaters last February , Leigh Whannell’sThe Invisible Manbecame a surprisebox - office smash . This re - imagining became a critical and commercial slam - dunk that seemed to break thecursethat had been plaguing movie establish on Universal ’s celebrated veranda of teras . With viewers champing at the bit for the next cleverly re - imagined take on a classic creep , here are ten movies with re - ideate monsters that you ’ve belike missed .
Vampire’s Kiss (1988)
Nicolas Cage stars as a greedy New York suit of clothes named Peter , who , after a night of cruising bars , finds himself burn on the neck by a beautiful conquest ( Jennifer Beals ) . Convinced he ’s now a lamia , Peter assume fake fangs and start stalking cleaning lady to sate his real ( or imagined ? ) bloodlust .
dismiss at the box seat - office and pillory by critics upon release , Vampire ’s Kisshas recently come to be embrace by cult moving picture enthusiasts . Not only is this Cage at his absolute coop - est , but this smutty black comedy about a individual have from a personality disorder is surprisingly modern .
Frankenhooker (1990)
" Wanna engagement ? " From the deranged mind of Frank Henenlotter ( Basket Case , Brain Damage ) comes this coloured B - flick belly laugh about a re - animated baby ( Patty Mullen ) forgather from streetwalker persona .
When mad scientist Jeffrey Franken ( James Lorinz ) lose his fiancee , Elizabeth in a horrible lawnmower accident , he sets to rebuild her well than before . trammel and kill a bevy of hustler with explosive super - crack ( it’sthatkind of pic ) , he cobblestone together a raw St. Brigid made of only the choicest parts . Too silly to be truly offensive and slyly feminist in its conclusion , Frankenhookeris unfeigned boron - movie magic from one of the uncanny voices in repugnance movie theatre
Memoirs of An Invisible Man (1992)
When an experimentation gone wrong turn Nick Halloway ( Chase ) unseeable , government agent David Jenkins ( Sam Neill ) makes it his charge to apprehend Nick at all monetary value . On the runnel , he obtain help from a lovely familiarity named Alice ( Hannah ) whom he falls for . But who can screw an invisible human being ?
memoir of An Invisible Manis definitely flawed ( who allow John Carpenter do comedy ? ) but the personal appeal of its leads , then body politic - of - the - art peculiar effects , and unmortgaged affection for the classical character it ’s based on make it an easy and enjoyable vigil .
Wolf (1994)
Another vital dud whose reputation has grown with time , Wolfstars Jack Nicholson as a literary editor who , after a loup-garou attack in rural Vermont , find himself newly energized . When he pick up that he ’s been replaced by a younger executive ( James Spader ) , his new animalistic urges start to overcome him .
Directed by Academy Award succeeder Mike Nichols ( The Graduate),Wolfhas a singular pedigree . Though it sense like a holdover from the " greed is good " 1980s , the celluloid is a biting metaphor for the bowelless nature of the corporate earth that outfit the werewolf myth in shrill new duds .
The Addiction (1995)
Vampires have reinvented themselves more often than Madonna , but there are still unexpected jewels to be found . Case in point in time : The Addiction , Abel Ferrara ’s very philosophic , very Catholic , blisteringly modern take on the bloodsucker mythos .
Lili Taylor ( The invocation ) maven as Kathleen , a doctoral pupil who finds herself assaulted and bitten by a vampire on her way home one evening . Newly possessed of a bloodlust that demonstrate itself more like a drug dependency than a hunger , Kathleen seeks avail from Peina ( Christopher Walken ) , a vampire who claims to have conquer his own thirst for blood .
spud in stunning black and clean and anchored by Taylor ’s deeply felt performance , The Addictionis a grandly verbose treatise on immorality and the folly of intellectualizing it .
The Eternal (1998)
Not every re - imagination is about modernizing a monstrosity , sometimes its just about place it in a new context . The Eternal stars Alison Elliot as a charwoman who returns to Ireland , her transmissible home to find herself cursed by the mummified corpse of a druid witch .
The Eternalis a small graduated table , Greco-Roman style mummy movie with an Irish spin that makes for a refreshful update of the mythos .
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)
When an aged Elvis Presley ( Bruce Campbell ) comes to in a nursing abode in Texas , he befriends Jack ( Ossie Davis ) , a humans who believes himself to be John F. Kennedy . The unlikely duo find themselves tested when other residents start dying under deep circumstances .
Don Coscarelli ( Phantasm ) directs genre fable Campbell in this mummy chum funniness that ’s equal percentage ludicrous and poignant .
Wer (2013)
When attorney , Kate ( A.J. Cook ) is called upon to defend a execution defendant ( Brian Scott O’Connor ) , she do to believe that the shaggy and ferine man may , in fact , be a real - life werewolf .
William Brent Bill ’s feel footage wolfman actioner is n’t awfully refined , but what it lacks in polish and coherence , it makes up for in disturbing , grounded intensity .
The Shape of Water (2017)
When Elisa ( Sally Hawkins ) , a mute , solitary cleaning peeress learns that the government quickness in which she works is harboring a mysterious , descale humanoid captured in the wild of South America , she ca n’t help but be intrigue . But intrigue turns to romance as Elisa hatches a plan to bust the puppet out and return him to his innate habitat .
Best Picture achiever at the 2018 Oscars , Guillermo Del Toro ’s film is less an update of the Greco-Roman story than a rewrite that directly won the heart of every monster lover who saw it .
Depraved (2019)
After an motiveless attack , a man awakens in a new body with a new name in the Brooklyn loft of a former army medic key out Henry ( David Call ) . Without a store , and newly - dub Adam ( Alex Breaux ) , the assembled Isle of Man struggles to make sense of the world around him through the teachings of his savior . But as he begins to learn , Adam starts to interrogate his precept and whether Henry may have more nefarious ideas in mind .
Alex Breaux is remarkably foreign as this achingly up - to - escort Frankenstein ’s Monster , andDepravedis as intellectually provocative as it is well made .
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