Universal Pictures has released a new featurette for Blumhouse’s upcoming horror movie Wolf Man, and it focuses on the details behind the nightmarish werewolf transformation.
I already had the opportunity to watch the film, and I thought it was great! It felt like an old-school horror movie, and I thought it was a unique and interesting way to handle the werewolf franchise.
I especially like the way the transformation took place in the story. The director, Leigh Whannell, explains that he wanted it to be more of a disease. Actor Christopher Abbott, described it as “slow and methodical.”
Whannell previously talked about the creature design, which is very different from the original Wolfman design, saying: “With the look of Wolf Man, I knew I wanted to do something very different. I was really inspired by movies like John Carpenter’s The Thing and David Cronenberg’s The Fly.”
The movie centers on 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 (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.”
The movie was written written by Whannell and Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo, the latter duo previously wrote the comedic drama, Dumb Money.
The movie hits theaters this weekend!
