Well, obviously this guy redefined the invisible monster for the modern age. Once they were used as a cheapie substitute for special effects. Not so after this (or at least less so), as the computer camouflage effect seen here launched a zillion similar monsters. It’s the sort of thing that became so ubiquitous so quickly–like the ‘morphing’ effect created for tens for millions of dollars for Terminator 2 that six months later was being used in TV shaving blade commercials–that it’s somehow surprising to remember that it was once a new thing.
