EJ Moreno looks at horror video game movie adaptations… Last year, Five Nights at Freddy’s joined a small list of horror video games that made it to the big screen. Its fate was similar to many: dominating the box office but leaving a bad taste in the critic’s mouth. For the most part, the entire […]
The Essential Video Game Adaptations
Olly Dyche on the essential video game adaptations… Video game adaptations have notoriously garnered a reputation of being fairly awful, with the likes of Doom, Super Mario Bros., Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and House the Dead being great examples. However, within the fold of poor video game adaptations there have also been some good – and […]
Movie Review – Werewolves Within (2021)
Werewolves Within, 2021. Directed by Josh Ruben. Starring Sam Richardson, Milana Vayntrub, Michael Chernus, Michaela Watkins, Cheyenne Jackson, Harvey Guillén, George Basil, Anni Krueger, Sarah Burns, Wayne Duvall, Catherine Curtin, Rebecca Henderson, and Glenn Fleshler. SYNOPSIS: When a proposed pipeline creates hostilities between residents of a small town, a newly-arrived forest ranger must keep the […]
Trailer for Ubisoft’s Werewolves Within movie welcomes you to Beaverfield
Hoping to capture the rarest of bottled-lightning that is the successful horror-comedy (think Shaun of the Dead, An American Werewolf in London) IFC Films have released the full trailer for Josh Ruben’s Werewolves Within. An adaptation of Ubisoft’s VR game of the same name, the film features that age-old horror trope of a group of disparate […]
Ubisoft’s Werewolves Within movie gets a first trailer and poster
Signature Entertainment has released a poster, images and trailer for director Josh Ruben’s Werewolves Within. Based on Ubisoft’s VR game of the same name, the film centres on the residents of a small town who find themselves trapped in the local inn together during a snowstorm while a mysterious creature terrorises the community; watch it […]
Werewolves Within movie sets its director
Back in November of 2018, Ubisoft announced that it was developing a big screen adaptation of its VR video game Werewolves Within, and now comes word that the project has secured a director and new cast member. As revealed by Deadline, Josh Ruben (Scare Me) is set to direct the film, while Michael Chernus (Tommy) […]
Ubisoft adapting Child of Light and Werewolves Within for the screen
It’s first attempt, Assassin’s Creed, may not have managed to break the video game adaptation curse, but that certainly hasn’t deterred Ubisoft from dusting itself down and giving the green light to two further projects in a Child of Light live-action TV series and a Werewolves Within movie. As Variety reports, both projects are products […]
