Wolf Man (2025)

‘Wolf Man’ Starts Out with a Ferocious Bite and Ends with a Whimper. Director Leigh Whannell creates genuine terror and suspense in ‘Wolf Man’ – until the monster shows up and the thin story follows a predictable path. The werewolf, or in this case the Wolf Man, is one of the top-tier stars of Universal Studios’ lineup of classic monsters, third in line behind Dracula and Frankenstein’s monster.

So it stands to reason that the studio would hand the reins of this particular terror icon to Leigh Whannell, the writer (‘Saw’) and director who shepherded another Universal baddie, the Invisible Man, to the screen in an outstanding 2020 reinvention that turned the old sci-fi chestnut into a meditation on domestic abuse.