But once the movie kicks into high gear, it doesn’t find a way for all of its ideas to fit together. Amid a time of quiet conflict, Blake receives documentation that his father (Sam Jaeger) has been declared dead after being missing for a number of years and that he has inherited his estate.

The secret to making a great wolf man movie -- and you gotta pinky swear not to tell anybody about this, because it's a secret -- is that the "wolf man" part is optional. Werewolf stories aren't about transforming into half-human/half-canine hybrids as much as they're about people wrestling with their darkest impulses.

Looking back at the history of the Classic Universal Monster, The Wolf Man The Beginning of The Wolf Man. When it comes to werewolf movies, the Wolf Man franchise proper was not a

Fans of “SCTV” may remember a “Monster Chiller Horror Theatre” episode in which Joe Flaherty’s late-night host, Count Floyd, mistakenly programs a made-up Ingmar Bergman film, “Whispers of the Wolf,” thinking it’s a simple werewolf picture instead of a moody, existential mashup of Bergman’s “Hour of the Wolf” and “Persona.”

Another classic cinematic monster has been dusted off in “Wolf Man,” an R-rated Blumhouse movie which hits theaters on Friday.

For better, there's been 2020's The Invisible Man, in which writer/director Leigh Whannell left his supernatural leanings from the Insidious franchise behind for a more sci-fi-rooted horror. His Wolf Man has a similarly grim and grounded approach,

Leigh Whannell’s horror film Wolf Man hopes to join Den of Thieves 2: Pantera at the top of the weekend’s box office when it opens on January 17th, but judging by the mixed reviews from critics, it’s unclear how likely that’ll be.

Leigh Whannell's Wolf Man appears to be divisive among film critics. Wolf Man opens in United States theaters this coming weekend. Directed by Whannell, who previously made 2020's The Invisible Man, the Blumhouse monster movie stars Christopher Abbott,