‘Underrated’ horror movie with 91% on Rotten Tomatoes now on Netflix | Films | Entertainment | EUROtoday

An ‘underrated’ horror movie with a 91% rating on Rotten Tomatoes is coming to Netflix. The Invisible Man is a 2020 science fiction horror movie written and directed by Leigh Whannell.

Loosely based mostly on HG Wells’s 1897 novel, it stars Elisabeth Moss as a lady who believes she is being stalked and gaslit by her abusive ex-boyfriend (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) after he acquires the flexibility to turn out to be invisible. Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid, Harriet Dyer, and Michael Dorman seem in supporting roles. Review aggregator web site Rotten Tomatoes reported that 91% of 423 evaluations of the movie have been optimistic, with a median ranking of seven.7/10. The web site’s critics consensus reads: “Smart, well-acted, and above all scary, The Invisible Man proves that sometimes, the classic source material for a fresh reboot can be hiding in plain sight.” As of September 2025, Rotten Tomatoes ranks it as the 30th best horror film of all time.

Metacritic assigned a weighted average score of 72 out of 100, based on 58 critics, indicating “usually beneficial” reviews.

Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of “B+” on an A+ to F scale, and PostTrak reported an overall positive score of 76% and an average rating of four out of five stars, with 53% of respondents saying they would definitely recommend the film.

The Invisible Man appeared on 51 critics’ year-end top-10 lists, including six second-place rankings. In July 2025, The Hollywood Reporter ranked it number 17 on its list of the “25 Best Horror Movies of the twenty first Century.”

A Reddit person mentioned the movie was “underrated” and that they “rarely hear people talk about it” when discussing horror. Another mentioned the movie was “way better than expected” and that it’s precisely how administrators ought to method an up to date retelling of an outdated traditional.

One reviewer mentioned: “I find it is a good midway point between what is sometimes called ‘elevated horror’ and more traditional horror. It has strong themes about trauma, gaslighting, and abuse but a straightforward plot with good scares and kills.”