The writer-director was partially inspired by a close friend who died of ALS, but ultimatley lost a scene involving the affliction: "That's definitely one that hurt when I took it out."
Wolf Man is the latest Universal Monster to get a modern treatment, but the film falls short of its renowned predecessor.
Wolf Man director Leigh Whannell has addressed his decision to move on from The Invisible Man sequel, The Invisible Woman, and opens up on why Ryan Gosling didn't star in his latest monster
Despite Christopher Abbott’s commitment, director Leigh Whannell's 'Wolf Man' update proves too slow and serious to satisfy horror fans.
Julia Garner won three Emmys for her work in “Ozark.” Now, in “Wolf Man,” she plays a woman in peril. What happened?
Wolf Man was called 'pulse-pounding' and 'terrifying' in first reactions, but the Rotten Tomatoes score leaves little to be desired as Leigh Whannell's reimagining of George Waggner's 1941 film currently has an underwhelming score of 56% on review aggregate site, Rotten Tomatoes.
Australian creator of the Saw horror series talks about rebooting a werewolf classic and why he never thought Hollywood was his destiny
For starters, she – and others – put too much stock in “The Invisible Man,” the horror film director Leigh Whannell made ... a killer performance by Elisabeth Moss. This flops around ...
By Esther Zuckerman Shortly after the director Leigh Whannell’s 2020 take on “The Invisible Man” became a box office success, he got a call from Universal asking if he would like to tackle Wolf Man, another one of the studio’s classic monsters ...
The themes within “Wolf Man” are far blunter than “Invisible Man,” but it will be interesting to see if Whannell continues to use Universal’s monsters to tell another story of feminine trauma and resilience to create a trilogy of terror.
Review - Australian writer-director Leigh Whannell takes a crack at a famous monster - and finds something new, Dan Slevin writes.
Audiences had reason to hope for stronger stuff since just five years ago, director Leigh Whannell struck thematic and fright-fest gold with a riveting reboot of "The Invisible Man" that made star Elisabeth Moss the victim of a timely monster called toxic ...