Leigh Whannell Unpacks Wolf Man’s Horrific Influences

After Invisible Man and Abigail, Universal’s got different modern instrumentality connected 1 of its classical monsters hitting theaters. While it’s taken immoderate clip to trade Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man, it’s getting present successful astir a month, and a caller down the scenes video digs into the film’s galore inspirations.

In the featurette, Whannell readily admits to utilizing the movie to research “infection and transformation,” themes that person been astatine the bosom of werewolf stories. But his rotation has immoderate other weight: helium wrote the publication successful 2020 during the early pandemic days, truthful the movie can’t assistance but besides beryllium astir however sicknesses elicit feelings of “isolation, dread, and anxiety.” Blake, our eventual Wolf Man played by Christopher Abbott, gets attacked by a werewolf and gradually morphs into the monster arsenic his woman Charlotte (Julia Garner) and girl Ginger (Matilda Firth) tin lone ticker arsenic it happens…at slightest until it’s clip for them to walk the remainder of the nighttime moving away from him.

On a simliar note, the manager considers Wolf Man a tribute to 2 of his favourite 80s assemblage fearfulness films, The Thing and The Fly. Those movies besides research the fearfulness of idiosyncratic becoming (or being near) thing uncontrollable and dangerous. It’s a somewhat antithetic way for Whannell, who’s been successful the fearfulness crippled ever since the archetypal Saw, but moves similar Insidious and Upgrade focus connected the panic of demonic posessions oregon evil, manipulative beingse. He precise overmuch likes utilizing fearfulness to “really excavation heavy into someone’s subconscious,” and with Wolf Man, he’s aiming to supply an “aural assault” and present “something horrific and visceral” to audiences.

We’ll spot if his wound is arsenic scary arsenic his bark seems erstwhile Wolf Man hits theaters connected January 17, 2025.

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