FLIM
WOLF MAN
AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN AMERICA
Desperate times when the Pedigree Chum ran out. Below: Fraught times for the family.
★★★
OUT NOW / CERT 15 / 103 MINS
DIRECTOR Leigh Whannell
CAST Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner, Matilda Firth
PLOT Blake (Abbot) takes his wife Charlotte (Garner) and daughter Ginger (Firth) back to the rural home where he grew up — but they find something terrifying waiting in the woods.
LEIGH WHANNELL IS back in Universal’s world of classic monsters. Following 2020’s The Invisible Man, the filmmaker returns with Wolf Man, a new, modern take on the 1941 Gothic horror. It follows Blake (Christopher Abbott, replacing original star Ryan Gosling), a family man whose marriage to journalist Charlotte (Julia Garner) has hit a rough patch, his career on pause while he takes on the role of stay-at-home dad to their young daughter Ginger (Matilda Firth). After receiving notice that his father has died, Blake and family head to his childhood home, a remote farm in the forests of Oregon, to pack up the deceased patriarch’s belongings. Upon arrival, they’re attacked by a mysterious creature —and soon, Blake himself begins to transform.