The Big Bang Theory Predicted 2020s Biggest Horror Movie | CBR – CBR – Comic Book Resources

In The Big Bang Theory Season 8, Episode 23, The Maternal Combustion," Raj predicted the biggest horror movie of 2020.

At the heart of The Big Bang Theoryarefour friends who are fascinated with comic books, sci-fi movies, television shows, board games, video games and everything pop culture. Over the comedy's 12-season run, Leonard, Sheldon, Raj and Howard talked, argued and theorized about their favorite subjects, from the DC Universe to the Star Trek franchise.

These conversations led to many laughs, but in one particular case, a discussionabout horror-movie trends sawa surprising prediction about The Invisible Man that would come to fruitionhalf a decade later.

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In the Season 8 episode "The Maternal Combustion," which aired in 2015, Raj and Howard are playing video games in the latter's living room. Howard brings up the subject of horror movies and their icons, recapping the latest trend in cinematic monsters. He explains that a while back, everything had something to do with vampires. While he doesn't mention any examples, he is referring to a fad that includes the likes of the Twilight franchise, The Vampire Diaries, Dracula Untold and more.

Then, after the vampires, Howard says the next pop culture hit were zombies, a trend that became extremely popular thanks in large part toThe Walking Dead. After vampires and zombies, Howard then wonders what will come next, to which Rajreplies, "We haven't had a good Invisible Man in a while." Now, at the time, this served as a setup for a joke made at Stuart's expense, who follows-up by saying that he makes a perfect invisible man whenever he tries to talk to a woman. However, what fans didn't know at the time was how accurate Raj's prediction would ultimately become.

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Released on Feb. 28, 2020, Blumhouse's The Invisible Manstarred Elisabeth Moss as Cecilia Kass, a woman who was in an abusive relationship with a genius and eccentric scientist, Adrian Griffin. After she ran away from him, Adrian faked his death and began to psychologically torment Cecilia with an advanced suit that allowed him to turn invisible. The film was a twisted psychological thriller, and although it was made with a modest budget of $7 million, it became a critical and financial hit. It earned a 91 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, amassed over $130 million at the box office and after the coronavirus pandemic shut most theaters down, continued to be a success on-demand.

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