At the heart of this keyword lies the feature film Hollow Man , a 2000 science fiction horror film directed by the legendary Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven. By the turn of the millennium, Verhoeven was already a household name for his satirical, hyper-violent, and visually spectacular Hollywood hits like RoboCop (1987), Total Recall (1990), and Basic Instinct (1992). With Hollow Man , he took on the classic trope of invisibility, famously explored in H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man , and dragged it kicking and screaming into the modern era of corporate greed and military industrial complexes.