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Wolfman | Horror
With his marriage fraying, Blake persuades his wife Charlotte to take a break from the city and visit his remote childhood home in rural Oregon. As they arrive at the farmhouse in the dead of night, they're attacked by an unseen animal and barricade themselves inside the home as the creature prowls the perimeter. But as the night stretches on, Blake begins to behave strangely, transforming into something unrecognizable.
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With his marriage fraying, Blake persuades his wife Charlotte to take a break from the city and visit his remote childhood home in rural Oregon. As they arrive at the farmhouse in the dead of night, they're attacked by an unseen animal and barricade themselves inside the home as the creature prowls the perimeter. But as the night stretches on, Blake begins to behave strangely, transforming into something unrecognizable.
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Leigh Whannell revealed that he drew inspiration from David Cronenberg's remake of The Fly (1986) when he was crafting his take on this classic werewolf story. He explained: "What The Fly did that a lot of other practical-effects-driven horror movies from that time did not do was bring the tragedy out of these practical effects. It wasn't a joke in The Fly. It was there to illustrate someone who was dying of an illness. I was like, 'I've got to do that.' It's not about being funny or icky or gory. This is about the tragedy of the human body falling apart." Whannell also revealed that Julia Garner is "the emotional compass of this film, and she's going to be what Shelley Duvall was in The Shining (1980). You don't get scared in The Shining without Shelley Duvall. And so I was like, 'I've got to find someone who can drink up the audience's empathy.' And she did an incredible job."
Leigh Whannell warned that not everyone will love the way the Wolf Man looks, but those that do will be overjoyed. In a new interview with SFX Magazine, Whannell revealed that the creature design is all practical with no CGI involved. "I think you have to bring a new approach," Whannell said of his approach to Wolf Man. "Maybe there are some people that won't like it because they love the traditional wolf too much, but that was the approach I wanted." Whannell then confirmed that his Wolf Man is "100 percent practical, all make-up there are no CGI elements." However, Whannell clarified that the practical costume and makeup fans saw at the 2024 Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando was not his creation. "Things slipped through the cracks, and it was like, 'Oh, they're doing this promotion for Wolf Man at a theme park, but it doesn't look right,'" he said. "We shouldn't be putting that out in the world, because people are going to think that's what our wolf looks like.' My only response is to say, 'Look, that doesn't represent what we're doing.' All I can do is wait for the movie to come out. Then hopefully people will be like, 'Oh, I see what they were doing.'"
The moving truck in the film is a (fictional) company called Pierce, which has been in business since 1941. The name references Jack Pierce, who was Universal's classic monster make-up artist in their 30s and 40s heyday. 1941 references the year Universal's original The Wolf Man film was released.
Leigh Whannell and his wife had a very close friend in Los Angeles suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis [ALS, also known as motor neurone disease or MND], that takes over your body. He explained "It's heartbreaking when your body turns against you and begins shutting down; it's a real-life horror movie for both the person suffering and the people left behind." Following his friend's death, Whannell channelled his grief into this film as a way of processing what had happened. "It was important to us to reflect on some idea of this waking nightmare and to try and capture the fear Blake experiences as he feels himself slipping away," says Whannell. "That's the scariest part; people that have these types of diseases fight to try and maintain some semblance of themselves."
The film was meant to have its world premiere at the iconic TCL Chinese Theatre on January 7th, but it was canceled at the last minute, due to the California wildfires.