Hollow Man

About Hollow Man

Hollow Man is a 2000 Academy award-nominated science fiction thriller film , starring Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue, and Josh Brolin and directed by Paul Verhoeven. The film is about a scientist who makes himself invisible, a story which is inspired by H. G. Wells' The Invisible Man.

The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Visual Effects in 2000. The sequel Hollow Man 2 was released direct-to-video in 2006.

This film begins with someone dropping a rat in a hallway. It runs into a cage, trapped, then goes to a bowl of water and is picked up and decapitated by an unseen force which blood soon reveals to be an invisible gorilla. The scene moves to the apartment of Dr. Sebastian Caine (Kevin Bacon), a brilliant but egotistical scientist who works on an invisibility serum for the US military. His current project is reversing the invisibility effect on his test subject, a female gorilla named Isabelle (which killed the rat in the opening), on his computer. It is incomplete so he eats a Twinkie and gives up. Then he tries one more time and completes reversion 100%.