MOVIE NEWS – Universal’s monster movie series is based on telling classic horror stories from a modern perspective. This was the case with The Invisible Man and most recently with Abigail, with the ballet-dancer vampire girl. Wolf Man also takes a well-known story and also examines the question from the perspective of modern man, how we can become a beast, what we feel during the process, and how our environment can relate to it.

“Our movie is about infection and transformation, which is a theme that every werewolf story explores,” Gizmodo quotes screenwriter-director Leigh Whannell. Whannel also points out that he began writing the script at the beginning of the pandemic, so the story inevitably seeped into the isolation, fear, and anxiety that the disease creates. In the film, Blake, played by Christopher Abbott, is bitten by a wolf and begins to slowly transform. His young daughter and wife watch helplessly as this transformation unfolds, until they realize that their lives are in danger.

The director not only weaves his Covid experiences into the film, but also pays homage to two of his favorite transformation horrors. They are The Thing and The Fly. These two films also try to explore, among other things, how terrifying it is to be afraid that we will transform into something terrible – or that someone else will transform in our immediate vicinity.

(Wolf Man – domestic release: January 16, 2025.)