CINEMA
WOLF MAN
Sick as a dog
★★ ★ ☆ ☆
RELEASED
OUT NOW! 15
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103 minutes
Director Leigh Whannell
Cast Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner, Matilda Firth, Sam Jaeger
First mooted as a Dark Universe project in 2014, and then abandoned after the commercial and critical failure of Tom Cruise’s The Mummy, this reimagining of Universal’s 1941 classic The Wolf Man has melted through various iterations. A final shapeshift saw director Leigh Whannell (Insidious: Chapter 3, Upgrade) grab hold of the leash – an exciting prospect given that he so skilfully updated James Whale’s The Invisible Man into a terrifying tale of gaslighting and physical abuse.