Goodness Gracious, this is one of the worst werewolf movies I've ever seen. While Leigh Whannell does a great job directing the movie, his story was extremely underwhelming, as the wolf man in the title isn't actually a werewolf, but a man with what I can only describe as advanced rabies.
Leigh Whannell's Wolf Man may take a simplistic approach, but its ending opens up a great deal of meaning for Christopher Abbott's tragic monster.
Christopher Abbott ("Poor Things") and Julia Garner ("Ozark") play a couple who go back to the husband's family home in Oregon, only to find terror in the woods.
This creature feature tells the story of Blake (Christopher Abbott), husband, father and struggling writer living in San Francisco, who inherits his remote childhood home in rural Oregon.
The actor said the fake blood has "a lot of sugar" and the "bone part was, like, white chocolate or something"
Wolf Man 2.5 out of 5 Stars Director: Leigh Whannell Writers: Leigh Whannell, Corbett Tuck, Lauren Schuker Blum, Rebecca Angelo Starring: Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner, Matilda Firth, Sam Jaeger Rated: R for bloody violent content, grisly images and some language.
Leigh Whannell follows ‘The Invisible Man’ with another update on a classic from the Universal archives, unfolding in an isolated farmhouse in the Pacific Northwest.
Universal Pictures’ highly awaited Wolf Man hit the theatres on the 17th of January 2025. It brings forth a modernized take on the classic Universal Monsters legend.
The actor admits the prosthetics took their toll, even though they helped him get into the right headspace for the character: "you feel like you're trapped a little bit, so it's a mental marathon as well.
Actor Christopher Abbott shared his shooting experience for the horror film Wolf Man and recalled a sequence in the movie
For Christopher Abbott, chewing on his prosthetic limbs ... Abbott plays Blake, a San Francisco man who inherits a rural Oregon farmhouse after his dad vanishes. "With his marriage to his high ...
Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man manages to strip the genre of its last shreds of dignity, replacing suspense with an onslaught of gore and nonsense.