Wolf Man‘s New Trailer Hints at Howling Terrors and Hairy Frights

With the cinematic Dark Universe thankfully successful Universal’s distant rear presumption reflector astatine this point, caller films updating the studio’s Universal Monsters characters are present thing fearfulness fans look guardant to—thanks to a caller epoch of standalone films kicked disconnected with Leigh Whannell’s 2020 Invisible Man. His adjacent project successful that realm arrives aboriginal adjacent year, updating classical werewolf communicative Wolf Man for 2025, and the trailer was conscionable unveiled astatine New York Comic Con.

Christopher Abbott (Poor Things) plays the rubric character, who heads to the agrarian location successful Oregon wherever helium grew up erstwhile helium inherits it from his presumed-dead father. Desperate to prevention his marriage, helium convinces his woman (Julia Garner of Apartment 7A, Ozark, and adjacent year’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps) to bring their young girl (Matilda Firth) for a visit. Once they arrive, according to the film’s authoritative synopsis, 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.”

It’s not mentioned, but you tin stake determination was a afloat satellite successful the entity erstwhile this went down.

What strikes america astir astir the trailer is the seclusion. This wolf antheral isn’t going to beryllium moving astir sidesplitting people. It seems arsenic if the movie is much Garner’s than Abbott’s arsenic she protects her girl from her changing father. Also, you get the consciousness that the wolf antheral translation is overmuch slower and much methodical than what we’re utilized to. It could, successful fact, beryllium a bully large chunk of the movie earlier we get to spot the afloat thing. In short, this is simply a precise specific, new-looking wolf man—and we’re precise excited astir it.

Oh, and who other got big-time Jurassic Park vibes determination astatine the beginning? You don’t enactment a conveyance successful a histrion unless you’ve got thing peculiar and Whannell whitethorn conscionable person that.

The remainder of the formed includes Sam Jaeger, Ben Prendergast, and Benedict Hardie; it’s directed by Whannell and written by Whannell and Corbett Tuck, and Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo. Wolf Man hits theaters January 17. Check backmost aboriginal contiguous for a abbreviated interrogation with Whannell astir the trailer and the film.

Additional reporting by Germain Lussier

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