After Invisible Man and Abigail, Universal’s acquired one other fashionable tackle considered one of its traditional monsters hitting theaters. While it’s taken a while to craft Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man, it’s getting right here in a couple of month, and a brand new behind the scenes video digs into the movie’s many inspirations.
In the featurette, Whannell readily admits to utilizing the movie to discover “infection and transformation,” themes which have been on the coronary heart of werewolf tales. But his spin has some additional weight: he wrote the script in 2020 throughout the early pandemic days, so the movie can’t assist but additionally be about how sicknesses elicit emotions of “isolation, dread, and anxiety.” Blake, our eventual Wolf Man performed by Christopher Abbott, will get attacked by a werewolf and progressively morphs into the monster as his spouse Charlotte (Julia Garner) and daughter Ginger (Matilda Firth) can solely watch because it occurs…no less than till it’s time for them to spend the remainder of the night time working away from him.
On a simliar be aware, the director considers Wolf Man a tribute to 2 of his favourite 80s physique horror movies, The Thing and The Fly. Those films additionally discover the worry of somebody changing into (or being close to) one thing uncontrollable and harmful. It’s a barely totally different monitor for Whannell, who’s been within the horror recreation ever for the reason that authentic Saw, however strikes like Insidious and Upgrade concentrate on the fear of demonic posessions or evil, manipulative beingse. He very a lot likes utilizing horror to “really dig deep into someone’s subconscious,” and with Wolf Man, he’s aiming to offer an “aural assault” and ship “something horrific and visceral” to audiences.
We’ll see if his chunk is as scary as his bark appears when Wolf Man hits theaters on January 17, 2025.
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