Has the U.S. giant monster fandom been sleeping on L’homme Qui Rétrécit (2025)? Maybe! It’s a French adaptation of Richard Matheson’s The Shrinking Man, and hit cinemas back on October 22, 2025, featuring that delicate unease you might feel as the world around you grows bigger and that spider in the basement suddenly becomes comparatively the size of a bear. Up top is the trailer starring Jean Dujardin.
L’homme looks like a pretty faithful reimagining of the original story – a man begins to mysteriously shrink until he’s all but forgotten, left to fend for himself in his own home’s basement.
“Paul is an ordinary shipbuilder living on the French coast whose life is turned upside down when an inexplicable, strange meteorological phenomenon during a sea trip causes him to shrink inexorably.”
Fun fact: The way Richard Matheson came up with The Shrinking Man idea was pretty funny. He’d been watching the movie Let’s Do It Again (1953) at Redondo Beach, and there’s a scene where one character accidentally puts on another character’s hat, and realizes it’s way too big. That made Matheson wonder: “What would happen if a man put on a hat which he knew was his and the same thing happened?” Bad things, that’s what!
There’s no confirmed stateside release date yet or news on when this might hit streaming, but stay tuned. L’homme Qui Rétrécit is directed by Jan Kounen and stars Jean Dujardin, Mari-Josée Croze, and Daphné Richard. Oh, and check out this VFX test featuring Kounen himself and a (relatively) giant woman:
