“Wolf Man” pays homage to classic monsters and body horror with its practical and visual effects

Bringing the Wolf Man to life is a monumental feat, and wanting to honor the original 1941 classic of the same name, director Leigh Whannell channels inspiration from horror history. . “If you think about that look that was created for Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein in 1931 or Lon Chaney’s Wolf Man in 1941, those were things that audiences had never seen,” Whannell says. “Those images have lasted because they’re so striking. Anybody dealing with monsters today lives in the shadow of these artists. Every makeup artist whose name is etched into the Hall of Fame—from Rick Baker and Rob Bottin to Stan Winston and Jack Pierce, all these artists have created something brilliant that sticks in your mind.”

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Meet the family trapped in Blumhouse’s latest nightmare “Wolf Man” In cinemas January 15

Effective horror is anchored in a grounded world, and director Leigh Whannell and screenwriter Corbett Tuck laid the foundation with the story of Blake Lovell, along with his family. With his past seemingly behind him, long buried secrets get unearthed and threatens his family as they explore the Lovell farm, an inheritance from his deceased father.

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Blake, a struggling father and husband, is played by Christopher Abbott(Poor Things), who director Whannell thinks breathes life into the tortured character.  “Chris is unable to be inauthentic,” Whannell says. “He doesn’t hit a false note. He’s not a showy actor, and he’s allergic to performative acting or reaching. He just wants to bring it into a living, breathing zone, and it’s a magic trick to watch.”    

Transforming the werewolf: how Blumhouse’s latest horror film “Wolf Man” reimagines the classic monster In cinemas January 15

What if someone you loved became something else? 

From Blumhouse and visionary writer-director Leigh Whannell, the creators of the chilling modern monster tale The Invisible Man, comes a terrifying new lupine nightmare: Wolf Man. 

Golden Globe nominee Christopher Abbott (Poor Things, It Comes at Night) 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 (Emmy winner Julia Garner; Ozark, Inventing Anna), fraying, Blake persuades Charlotte to take a break from the city and visit the property with their young daughter, Ginger (Matlida Firth; Hullraisers, Coma)

Darkness unfolds in the latest Blumhouse thriller, “Speak No Evil.” Unleashing horror in PH cinemas on September 11

Producer Jason Blum got a call from an executive who saw a thriller that got under his skin, and was eager to see this film. The movie was the 2022 Danish film, Gaesterne, and the screenplay went on to be the inspiration for the latest Blumhouse thriller Speak No Evil. “I’m always glad to be the guy who gets the call when someone sees something disturbing— if it ruins your day, call me!— so I arranged to see it and I was floored. As it unfolded, I recoiled with each new revelation, and when it was over, I couldn’t shake it. I believed that in the right hands, an English language reinterpretation could be a very memorable, very unsettling, very special film,” Blum says.