‘Wolf Man’ Spoiler Video Fully Reveals the Christopher Abbott Werewolf Design

Halloween Horror Nights did no favors to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Wolf Man this past Halloween season, with a costumed actor inside the park giving us a lackluster first tease of the werewolf design featured in the movie. It’s never a good idea for a movie’s character design to be revealed by a Halloween costume, and unsurprisingly, it didn’t go over well with fans.

That’s probably why Universal has made the decision, one week before the release of Wolf Man, to show off the whole damn werewolf with a clip from the movie that seemingly reveals all. The clip showcases the body horror transformation star Christopher Abbott undergoes after being bitten, while also giving us a good look at his fully transformed werewolf look.

It’s undoubtedly an odd choice to spoil so much so close to the movie’s release, but it’s likely that Universal is in a bit of a panic and trying to salvage the negative first impression of Whannell’s Wolf Man as we head towards the January 17 release date. In any event, you can watch the full transformation clip down below, which needless to say includes SPOILERS.

“With the look of Wolf Man, I knew I wanted to do something very different,” Whannell explains in a featurette video released earlier this week. “I was really inspired by movies like John Carpenter’s The Thing and David Cronenberg’s The Fly.” It looks like Whannell and his team ended up settling on a unique werewolf design that’s half-man, half-monster, rather than the more traditional hairy beast we’ve seen in movies like An American Werewolf in London, Dog Soldiers, and The Howling. Whannell’s take is more infection-based, with Abbott’s character looking like a true wolf-man hybrid. Let us know what you think in the comments below.

Abbott stars in the new movie as Blake, a husband and father who inherits his remote childhood home in rural Oregon after his own father vanishes. The plot synopsis further details:

“With his marriage to wife Charlotte (Julia Garner) fraying, Blake persuades Charlotte to visit the property with their young daughter, Ginger (Matlida Firth). But as the family approaches the farmhouse in the dead of night, they’re attacked by an unseen animal and, in a desperate escape, barricade themselves inside the home as the creature prowls the perimeter.”