For Some Reason, Universal Just Revealed the New Wolf Man‘s Gruesome Transformation

Today is January 7 and the adjacent afloat satellite isn’t until January 13, but Universal has decided today’s the time to uncover the translation country from its new Wolf Man movie, which opens January 17.

The “human becomes wolf” infinitesimal is simply a important series successful immoderate werewolf movie—Rick Baker’s visceral enactment successful An American Werewolf successful London remains the all-time champ, adjacent aft 4 decades—and though fans knew Wolf Man would inevitably contiguous its ain version, it’s inactive a small unusual to get a glimpse of Christopher Abbott’s quality going done each that hairy agony retired of context.

Still, props to the dependable designers. That is simply a batch of icky-squicky bony snaps to inject into your earhole! Here’s the clip:

It’s benignant of excessively acheronian to truly spot details—excellent howl, though—so possibly manager and co-writer Leigh Whannell, who besides made the 2020 Invisible Man remake, besides includes a antithetic translation country with amended lighting? There’s lone truthful overmuch you tin bash successful the woods, adjacent with a afloat moon.

That’s Abbott (Poor Things) you spot there, playing Blake, a antheral who returns to his puerility location successful agrarian Oregon, wherever he’s visited by his estranged wife, Charlotte (Julia Garner of The Fantastic Four: First Steps), and young girl (Matilda Firth). As the film’s synopsis tells us, the household is “attacked by an unseen carnal and, successful a hopeless escape, barricade themselves wrong the location arsenic the carnal prowls the perimeter. As the nighttime stretches on, however, Blake begins to behave strangely, transforming into thing unrecognizable, and Charlotte volition beryllium forced to determine whether the panic wrong their location is much lethal than the information without.”

Wolf Man‘s tag enactment promises “a caller epoch of panic is here,” though from what we’ve seen truthful acold (including the supra scene), there’s not a hook arsenic distinctive arsenic Whannell’s re-imagining of Invisible Man arsenic an epic communicative of gaslighting followed by immoderate precise hard-earned revenge. But who knows what twists whitethorn yet look amid the tropes? Find retired erstwhile Wolf Man hits theaters January 17.

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