Wolf Man‘s First Teaser Won’t Do Anything to Ease Your Concerns About Its Wolf Man Design

Hot connected the heels of yesterday’s disastrous monster reveal, Blumhouse and Universal person released a teaser trailer for Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Wolf Man remake. Have a look:

According to a caller synopsis, “Golden Globe nominee Christopher Abbott (Poor Things, It Comes astatine Night) stars arsenic Blake, a San Francisco hubby and father, who inherits his distant puerility location successful agrarian Oregon aft his ain begetter vanishes and is presumed dead. With his matrimony to his high-powered wife, Charlotte (Emmy victor Julia Garner; Ozark, Inventing Anna), fraying, Blake persuades Charlotte to instrumentality a interruption from the metropolis and sojourn the spot with their young daughter, Ginger (Matilda Firth). But arsenic the household approaches the farmhouse successful the dormant of night, they’re 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.”

Perhaps wisely, Blumhouse has decided to support its titular “Wolf Man” off-camera for the archetypal teaser—so what has the workplace decided to amusement america instead? Some chill bugs, for starters! I’m wholly down with that. The trailer begins with a preying mantis lunging astatine a wasp beetle, earlier reminding america this caller remake is from the manager of The Invisible Man and the producers of The Black Phone. You liked those, right? Though documentary-style insect footage isn’t the astir intuitive prime to present your werewolf movie, it seems the movie plans to meditate connected the upsetting necessity of beingness needing to provender connected different beingness to survive.

As the rubric is dilatory sliced into the movie itself, Abbot’s quality promises to support his woman and girl from “what sounded similar an animal, but was lasting connected 2 feet.” Naturally, this goes poorly for our doomed hero, and arsenic the trailer illustrates, the movie seems to instrumentality a Fly-esque attack to his inevitable translation by having him dilatory suffer his teeth and fingernails. We decorativeness disconnected with a clawed manus punching done a car windshield arsenic helium comes for his terrified wife. It’s not a atrocious trailer, honestly—but if you’re 1 of the galore radical who recovered the carnal depicted astatine Halloween Horror Nights off-putting, there’s small present to triumph you back.

Co-starring Sam Jaeger, Ben Prendergast, and Benedict Hardie, and produced by Ryan Gosling (who was erstwhile attached to star, earlier Abbott took implicit the role), Wolf Man is scheduled for a January 17 theatrical merchandise date.

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