Director Leigh Whannell has established himself as a safe pair of hands for genre filmmaking and Universal and Blumhouse’s Wolf Man has proven itself the perfect new horror project for him to sink his teeth into. A more than worthy entry into the stable of Universal monster reimaginings, and a second triumph for Whannell following his bold, blood-chilling take on The Invisible Man in 2020, Wolf Man is an effective and affecting werewolf movie that both wears its heart on its sleeve and sets out to terrify in equal measure.
Christopher Abbott stars as Blake Lovell, a husband and father who inherits his estranged dad’s Oregon farm and takes his wife Charlotte (Julia Garner) and adoring young daughter Ginger (Matilda Firth) for a much needed break to his rural childhood home. But after the family is attacked by a vicious creature, they must barricade themselves inside the remote farmhouse for the night and, once Blake begins to behave strangely under the effects of a new mysterious ‘sickness’, must fight both the terror within as well as what is prowling the forests that surround them.
