Director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man shakes up the werewolf mythos with a new take on the Universal Classic Monster, and it’s heading to Peacock this month. From Blumhouse and Universal Pictures, Wolf Man begins streaming exclusively on Peacock beginning April 18. Christopher Abbott (Poor Things) stars as Blake, a husband and father who inherits his remote childhood […]
Director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man shakes up the werewolf mythos with a new take on the Universal Classic Monster, and it’s heading to Peacock this month.
From Blumhouse and Universal Pictures, Wolf Man begins streaming exclusively on Peacock beginning April 18.
Christopher Abbott (Poor Things) stars as Blake, a husband and father who inherits his remote childhood home in rural Oregon after his own father vanishes. With his marriage to wife Charlotte (Julia Garner) fraying, Blake persuades Charlotte to take a break from the city and visit the property with their young daughter, Ginger (Matlida Firth). But as the family approaches the farmhouse in the dead of night, they’re attacked by an unseen animal and, in a desperate escape, barricade themselves inside the home as the creature prowls the perimeter.
Of course, there’s also the matter of Blake, who begins a harrowing transformation. Whannell’s reimagining of the 1941 Universal Monsters classic doesn’t feature a transformation at all, at least not in the conventional sense. The entire film, set over the course of one harrowing night, centers on a man grappling with a long, painful transformation.
Bringing this monstrous, body horror-fueled vision to life on screen was Prosthetics & Special Makeup Effects Designer Arjen Tuiten (Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Pan’s Labyrinth).
The horror film also stars Sam Jaeger (The Handmaid’s Tale), Ben Prendergast (The Sojourn Audio Drama) and ().
