Scorching on the heels of yesterday’s disastrous monster reveal, Blumhouse and Common have launched a teaser trailer for Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Wolf Man remake. Take a look:
In accordance with a brand new synopsis, “Golden Globe nominee Christopher Abbott (Poor Issues, It Comes at Evening) stars as Blake, a San Francisco husband and father, who inherits his distant childhood dwelling in rural Oregon after his personal father vanishes and is presumed useless. Together with his marriage to his high-powered spouse, Charlotte (Emmy winner Julia Garner; Ozark, Inventing Anna), fraying, Blake persuades Charlotte to take a break from the town and go to the property with their younger daughter, Ginger (Matilda 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 night time stretches on, nonetheless, Blake begins to behave unusually, remodeling into one thing unrecognizable, and Charlotte will probably be compelled to determine whether or not the phobia inside their home is extra deadly than the hazard with out.”
Maybe properly, Blumhouse has determined to maintain its titular “Wolf Man” off-camera for the primary teaser—so what has the studio determined to indicate us as a substitute? Some cool bugs, for starters! I’m completely down with that. The trailer begins with a preying mantis lunging at a wasp beetle, earlier than reminding us this new remake is from the director of The Invisible Man and the producers of The Black Telephone. You preferred these, proper? Although documentary-style insect footage isn’t probably the most intuitive option to introduce your werewolf film, it appears the movie plans to meditate on the upsetting necessity of life needing to feed on different life to outlive.
Because the title is slowly sliced into the movie itself, Abbot’s character guarantees to guard his spouse and daughter from “what appeared like an animal, however was standing on two ft.” Naturally, this goes poorly for our doomed hero, and because the trailer illustrates, the movie appears to take a Fly-esque method to his inevitable transformation by having him slowly lose his tooth and fingernails. We end off with a clawed hand punching by way of a automobile windshield as he comes for his terrified spouse. It’s not a nasty trailer, truthfully—however should you’re one of many many individuals who discovered the creature depicted at Halloween Horror Nights off-putting, there’s little right here to win you again.
Co-starring Sam Jaeger, Ben Prendergast, and Benedict Hardie, and produced by Ryan Gosling (who was as soon as connected to star, earlier than Abbott took over the position), Wolf Man is scheduled for a January 17 theatrical launch date.
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