EJ Moreno reviews Leigh Whannel’s Wolf Man…
Stuck between a virus horror film and a classic werewolf tale, Wolf Man is neither and nothing. It’s ‘been there, done that’ even when it thinks it’s doing something new. Leigh Whannell is a very innovative filmmaker but misses the mark with this new monster movie.
All the pieces are here for a good time, but in an attempt to reinvent the ‘man turning to a wolf’ story, it loses the magic that makes these films work. It’s always a shame when you walk in with high hopes but are met with a lackluster lycan story.
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Golden Globe nominee Christopher Abbott (Poor Things, It Comes at Night) stars as Blake, a San Francisco husband and father, who inherits his remote childhood home in rural Oregon after his own father vanishes and is presumed dead. With his marriage to his high-powered wife, Charlotte (Emmy winner Julia Garner; Ozark, Inventing Anna), fraying, Blake persuades Charlotte to take a break from the city and visit the property with their young daughter, Ginger (Matlida Firth; Hullraisers, Coma).
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. As the night stretches on, however, Blake begins to behave strangely, transforming into something unrecognizable, and Charlotte will be forced to decide whether the terror within their house is more lethal than the danger without.
Wolf Man is in cinemas from January 17th.
