If there’s one thing Leigh Whannell knows how to do, it’s tell an enriching and thrilling story. Just as he did with cyberpunk body horror actioner Upgrade and his scintillating reimagining of The Invisible Man, I’m all but interested in what he’s got for another Universal monster classic revisit, Wolf Man.
What if someone you loved became something else?
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 first official teaser trailer is here to hint at what’s to come when the film arrives in January. The cast also includes Sam Jaeger, Ben Prendergast, and Benedict Hardie, with a screenplay by Whannell and co-scribes Corbett Tuck, Lauren Schuker Blum, Rebecca Angelo.
Enjoy the teaser below!
