Watch at your own risk.
That’s all I want to say about sharing this new promo for Universal and Blumhouse’s The Wolf Man from writer-director Leigh Whannell. There’s been lots of discourse online about the reveal of the title character, both at Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights and now in this latest short. Here is the truth; I haven’t watched what I’m about to share with you. Mainly because I want to wait until I see it on the big screen when The Wolf Man hits theatres January 17.
It’s an interesting decision to give the big reveal here and now, and I’m not sure why it would be done? Maybe to get more buzz going for the film? Maybe there’s confidence that the movie doesn’t need to rely on the transformation to make it a success? Who knows?
See for yourself below, or wait until next week to see The Wolf Man come to life.
From Blumhouse and visionary writer-director Leigh Whannell, the creators of the chilling modern monster tale The Invisible Man, comes a terrifying new lupine nightmare: 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 remote childhood home in rural Oregon after his own father vanishes and is presumed dead. With his marriage to his high-powered wife, Charlotte (Emmy winner 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 film co-stars Sam Jaeger (The Handmaid’s Tale), Ben Prendergast (The Sojourn Audio Drama) and Benedict Hardie (The Invisible Man). Wolf Man is directed by Whannell, whose previous films with Blumhouse include The Invisible Man, Upgrade and Insidious: Chapter 3. The screenplay is written by Leigh Whannell & Corbett Tuck, Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo (Dumb Money).
