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A new photo from Blumhouse’s Wolf Man remake has been released, starring Christopher Abbott and Julia Garner, while director Leigh Whannell explains how The Fly inspired his approach to body horror From Blumhouse and The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell comes a terrifying new wolf nightmare, Wolf Man. In the film, Golden Globe nominee Christopher Abbott (Poor Things) plays Blake, a husband and father from San Francisco who inherits his remote childhood home in rural Oregon after his father disappears and is presumed dead. With his marriage to his powerful wife Charlotte (Emmy winner Julia Garner) fraying, Blake convinces Charlotte to take a break from the city and tour the property with their young daughter, Ginger (Matlida Firth; Coma).
However, when the family approaches the farmhouse in the dead of night, they are attacked by an unseen animal, and in a desperate escape, they barricade themselves inside the house as the creature stalks the perimeter. As the night drags on, Blake begins to act strangely, morphing into something unrecognizable, leaving Charlotte to decide whether the terror inside their home is more deadly. What we’ve seen of the new Wolf Man design has so far divided opinion, but Whannell is taking his body-horror cues from an established classic.
“What The Fly did that a lot of other practical-effects horror films of the time didn’t do was take the tragedy out of the practical effects,” the director told Empire. “That wasn’t a joke in The Fly. That was to illustrate someone dying of a disease.” “I said, ‘I have to do this,’” Whannell continued. “It’s not about being funny or gross or gory. It’s about the tragedy of the human body falling apart.” As for Garner’s contribution, he said: “She’s going to be the emotional compass of this movie, and she’s going to be what Shelley Duvall was in The Shining. You can’t be scared in The Shining without Shelley Duvall. And so I said, ‘I’ve got to find someone who can absorb the audience’s empathy.’ And she did an incredible job.”
Everything We Know About Wolf Man
After Universal’s “Dark Universe” plans fell through, Blumhouse has done a great job with its modern reimaginings of these classic monsters. Despite a design that’s a departure from what fans are expecting, Wolf Man is likely to exceed expectations early next year. The film stars Sam Jaeger (The Handmaid’s Tale), Ben Prendergast (The Sojourn), and Benedict Hardie (The Invisible Man), with newcomer Zac Chandler, Beatriz Romilly (Shortland Street), and Milo Cawthorne (Shortland Street).
Source: Empire
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