Wolf Man is an upcoming American supernatural horror film directed by Leigh Whannell from a screenplay by the writing teams of Whannell and Corbett Tuck, and Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo. It is a reboot of the 1941 film The Wolf Man.
The Invisible Man’ director Leigh Whannell transforms the ‘Wolf Man’ into a story of a guy trying to avoid turning into his father.
Jason Blum put a silver bullet in his reaction to Wolf Man‘s box office. Blum, a producer on the Leigh Whannell-directed reboot, broke his silence on the film’s underperformance when he posted — and then deleted — a meme to his social media.
While 1941's The Wolf Man has influenced countless werewolf movies since its debut, this classic Universal monster movie has several glaring flaws.
Wolf Man was called 'pulse-pounding' and 'terrifying' in first reactions, but the Rotten Tomatoes score leaves little to be desired as Leigh Whannell's reimagining of George Waggner's 1941 film currently has an underwhelming score of 56% on review aggregate site, Rotten Tomatoes.
Leigh Whannell’s take on the Lon Chaney Jr. classic stumbled at the box office and was almost immediately overshadowed when Nosferatu’s Robert Eggers announced his own werewolf movie—but it’s still a bold and unsettling domestic horror story worthy of your attention.
Wolf Man and The Invisible Man both hail from director Leigh Whannell and Universal Studios but are they in the same universe?
So let’s get into it. Also, spoilers for Wolf Man are down below. Okay, so I knew next to nothing about this film going into my screening. Legit, the only thing I knew was that it was another ...
It clawed its way to the top. The horror fantasy “Wolf Man” was No. 1 at the box office on its opening day Friday, raking in $4.5 million, according to The Numbers. The flick, a reboot of 1941’s “The Wolf Man,” which was deemed a “dark and toothless January mess,” by IndieWire, is expected to take in $12 million through Monday.
The body horror-fueled creature feature struggles to thread the needle of its family-under-siege premise with a cohesive message.
A ccording to an old parable, we all hold two wolves within. We must feed the good wolf in order to build its strength. Then there’s the werewolf. It lives within as well. And when he comes out to play, bringing humanity’s suppressed animalism to the surface, you can bet there’s a bad moon rising.
After opening to mixed reviews, Leigh Whannell's Wolf Man has scared up a minor box office milestone, see how much the horror movie has made.