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Wolf Man
Not bad if you’re into that sorta fang
Wolf Man
Movie review by Spyder Darling
Looking for a movie to get your blood pumping in the great indoors while the January winds are keeping the temperatures below brisk outside?
Then sink your incisors into Wolf Man, which asks the question you’ll hopefully never need answered: “What if someone you loved became something else?”
From the ghoul people at Blumhouse and visionary writer-director Leigh Whannell, the creators of the chilling see-through saga The Invisible Man, comes a terrifying new imagining of the classic creature feature: Wolf Man.
Golden Globe nominee Christopher Abbott (Poor Things, It Comes at Night) stars as Blake, a San Francisco husband and father, who inherits his way too remote childhood home in rural Oregon after his own father vanishes and is presumed dead. With Blake’s marriage to his high-powered wife, Charlotte (Emmy winner and Aimee Man (Til Tuesday) lookalike 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).
“It’ll be fun,” Blake, might not have said specifically, but certainly implied. And we all know how that kind of wishful thinking plays out. And if not, this being a wolf-man movie, it’s just a matter of time before the fur starts flying.
And sure ‘nuff, as the family approaches the family’s new/old farmhouse in the dead of night, they’re attacked by an unseen animal and, in a desperate escape, barricade themselves inside their new home not so sweet home as one creature prowls the perimeter and another begins stalking the interior.
As the already long night gets longer, however, Blake begins to behave strangely, transforming into something unrecognizable. And Charlotte is forced to decide whether the increasing terror within their house is worse than the danger outside.
For those keeping track at home, Wolf Man co-stars Sam Jaeger (The Handmaid’s Tale), Ben…
