Like his 2020 reboot of The Invisible Man, the Melbourne-born director’s new film pares a classic story back to its stark essentials.

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Leigh Whannell’s new horror update Wolf Man is ruthlessly effective

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Leigh Whannell's Wolf Man is unsettling and unnerving with scary moments of body horror, but certain weak elements hold the movie back. Here's our review.

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Wolf Man Review: Leigh Whannell's Half-Effective Fright Fest Will Leave You Feeling Torn In Two

Leigh Whannell's 'Wolf Man' is a thrilling experience that’ll keep you on the edge of your seat. Read the full review on Dread Central.

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'Wolf Man' Review: Leigh Whannell's Latest Is A Modern Werewolf Story With A Messy Script

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 …

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Wolf Man Review – 'Far from a howler'

A man struggling in a strained marriage strikes out into the woods with his wife and daughter on a mission to reclaim a family farm and perhaps repair his relationship, but instead finds himself tangling with a vicious, primordial – but familiar – foe in Leigh Whannell’s update of the classic Universal horror, Wolf Man. After his 2020 interpretation of Invisible Man managed to what 2017’s big-budget abomination The Mummy could not in reinvigorat…

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WOLF MAN Review: Leigh Whannell's Backwoods Howler Doesn't Quite Hit The Mark

Leigh Whannell reinvents a classic werewolf story in his latest movie Wolf Man, which arrives in cinemas on 17th January 2025.

Leigh Whannell’s new horror update Wolf Man is ruthlessly effective

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