Blumhouse’s Wolf Man Reboot Clip Reveals Transformation Scene

A brand new clip has been launched from the upcoming horror film Wolf Man. The video reveals one of the best look but on the reimagining of the long-lasting Common Monster.

Directed by Leigh Whannell (The Invisible Man), Wolf Man is hitting theaters on Jan. 17, 2025. Up up to now, filmgoers haven’t but gotten a really clear take a look at the titular monster within the movie, however a brand new preview that was simply launched modifications that. The clip picks up in mid-transformation with Christopher Abbott remodeling right into a werewolf. It is not a super-brief clip, spanning over a minute lengthy, and it showcases the completion of the transformation. The video will be watched beneath.

This depiction of the character is uncommon in comparison with how werewolves are most frequently portrayed in horror movies. Whereas he is grown claws and fangs, he’s significantly much less bushy than your common werewolf, way more so than the basic model of the Wolf Man. Whannell has beforehand spoken out about selecting the design for his incarnation, which got here after evaluating the entire earlier film werewolves facet by facet. That is when the director realized he wished to do one thing utterly completely different, noting how he felt impressed by what Christopher Nolan and Heath Ledger did with the Joker character for The Darkish Knight. That was a giant danger that turned out to repay in a giant method, and Whannell is hoping for the same response to Abbott’s Wolf Man.

“I lined up all of the completely different variations, I had a PDF of everybody from Lon Chaney to David Norton in American Werewolf, The Howling, Canine Troopers,” he instructed Display Rant. “I had each look in entrance of me, and I am sort of looking at it, and I am like, ‘All proper, so the place do I slot in?’ You understand what a giant inspiration to me was, was Heath Ledger’s model of the Joker. Not a lot by way of look, however I had a photograph of him on my desk because the Joker as a result of I actually love what they did there with the character.”

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He continued, “They stayed true to what the Joker is, however they simply took it [to another level]. You hadn’t seen that model of the Joker earlier than. Not at the moment. Folks nonetheless adore it… I discover that so inspirational what they did with that character and the way they approached it.”

Wolf Man Reimagines the Traditional Horror Story

Whannell co-wrote Wolf Man with Corbett Tuck. The official synopsis reads, “Golden Globe nominee Christopher Abbott stars as Blake, a San Francisco husband and father, who inherits his distant childhood house in rural Oregon after his personal father vanishes and is presumed useless. Together with his marriage to his high-powered spouse, Charlotte (Julia Garner), fraying, Blake persuades Charlotte to take a break from the town and go to the property with their younger daughter, Ginger (Matlida Firth). However because the household approaches the farmhouse at the hours of darkness, they’re attacked by an unseen animal and, in a determined escape, barricade themselves inside the house because the creature prowls the perimeter. Because the evening stretches on, nevertheless, Blake begins to behave unusually, remodeling into one thing unrecognizable, and Charlotte can be compelled to resolve whether or not the fear inside their home is extra deadly than the hazard with out.”

Wolf Man is in theaters on Jan. 17, 2025.

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Launch Date

January 17, 2025

Solid

Christopher Abbott
, Julia Garner
, Matilda Firth
, Sam Jaeger
, Benedict Hardie

Studio(s)

Blumhouse Productions