A beastly new vision bursts forth
HOW WOLF MAN DIRECTOR LEIGH WHANNELL BROUGHT AN AGE-OLD MONSTER INTO THE MODERN ERA
WORDS AMON WARMANN
A beaten but unbowed Blake (Christopher
Abbott)
Things are getting hairy for Blake, partner Charlotte (Julia
Garner) and daughter Ginger
(Matilda Firth)
Mother and daughter are in for a monstrous surprise
Director Leigh Whannell on set.
LEIGH WHANNELL IS no stranger to reboots of classic horror films. In 2020 the actor-turneddirector put his stamp on The Invisible Man, a modernisation of a 127-year-old story that delivered visceral scares and proved a robust box-office hit, making $144.5 million off a $7 million budget. Now, he’s about to give the same treatment to another legendary Universal monster: the Wolf Man.