New horror movie Wolf Man, the next chapter in Universal's attempt to reboot its Classic Monsters series, was obviously inspired by George Waggner's similarly named 1941 film. According to writer-director Leigh Whannell, though, it also had some less predictable influences: Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners and Sicario.
"I'm a big fan of gothic horror movies. I love what Tim Burton did with Sleepy Hollow, and I love what Guillermo del Toro does," the filmmaker gushes in the new issue of SFX magazine, which features Star Trek spin-off movie Section 31 on the cover and hits newsstands on December 31. "There's such beauty to those gothic elements, like fog and cemeteries on a hill backlit by the Moon.
