“In early 1995, a hiker went missing in the remote mountains of central Oregon,” reads the prologue over a gorgeous opening shot: a still, wide frame looking down at a farm surrounded by dense forest and looming mountains, dark clouds hanging overhead. The mythology of the film appears in four different text sections over the

Writer/Director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man, like 2020’s The Invisible Man, bears little resemblance to the Universal Monsters movie upon which it’s loosely based. Though it similarly centers on a man who returns to his ancestral home only to find himself grappling with a bizarre affliction after an equally strange animal attack, an inciting scene set […]

Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man claws at the traditional horror tropes, but dig deeper and there’s something more lurking beneath the surface.

Leigh Whannell did a brilliant job of modernizing "The Invisible Man," but werewolves prove much harder to tame.

Blake Lovell thinks taking his wife and young daughter to rural Oregon to pack up his dead father's belongings is a good idea. It's a break from their urban life, might help repair his fraying marriage and reconnect them all with nature. “It would be good for us,” he argues.It will not, of course, because this is a Blumhouse movie called “Wolf Man.” It will not be good for Blake and it will not be good for the audience. That's because this film is a terrible misfire using a classic movie monster poorly rebooted by the modern home of horror.Slack when it should be terrifying, “Wolf Man” suffers from cheap sentimentality, laughably obvious script reveals, poor continuity and a creature that is less predatory than painful. Pity comes to mind. Christopher Abbott stars as Blake, a father and husband whose own estranged dad was a tad unstable, constantly drilling in his son a survivalist ethic. “It's not hard to die. It's the easiest thing in the world,” his dad says. He being officially declared dead 30 years after…

Despite what you may expect, it's not really a werewolf movie.

Leigh Whannell's Wolf Man is unsettling and unnerving with scary moments of body horror, but certain weak elements hold the movie back. Here's our review.

Despite Christopher Abbott’s commitment, director Leigh Whannell's 'Wolf Man' update proves too slow and serious to satisfy horror fans.