By MICHAEL GINGOLD
The reinvention of the classic monster takes a different approach to its transformation.
Universal Pictures and Blumhouse release WOLF MAN to theaters January 17. Directed by Leigh Whannell, following up his reinvention of THE INVISIBLE MAN for the two companies, from a script he wrote with Corbett Tuck, it stars Christopher Abbott (POOR THINGS, IT COMES AT NIGHT), Julia Garner (APARTMENT 7A) and Matilda Firth. According to the official synopsis, Abbott “stars as Blake, a San Francisco husband and father, who inherits his remote childhood home in rural Oregon after his own father vanishes and is presumed dead. With his marriage to his high-powered wife, Charlotte [Garner], fraying, Blake persuades Charlotte to take a break from the city and visit the property with their young daughter, Ginger [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. As the night stretches on, however, Blake begins to behave strangely, transforming into something unrecognizable, and Charlotte will be forced to decide whether the terror within their house is more lethal than the danger without.”
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