I totally snoozed on this, it looks like the same playbook from their last Universal Monster film, "The Invisible Man." I liked that film because Elizabeth Moss sold it and they chose another strong lead for this one. It kind of feels like Cujo meets a werewolf rather than anything related to UM. I'll probably check it out, though.
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This looks like a decent horror film, but apparently the makeup revealed at Universal Horror Nights last year is actually pretty close to what's in the film. So the Wolf Man is an ugly, mishapen bald dude with straggly hair. I don't want to hate on anything I haven't seen yet, but if you are going to use the Universal Wolf Man IP, you need to bring your A-game with some decent werewolf design at the very least. From Jack Pierce to Rick Baker and nearly all werewolves in between, there's been some desire to honor the past and in some cases try to one-up it. But I guess the filmmakers here wanted to go in a different direction. But why even call it Wolf Man?
I don't hate remakes. Heck, I'm a Hammer guy and remaking the Universal films was their bread and butter. But look what they did with Oliver Reed's werewolf on a limited budget.
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Exactly, it's not just a generic werewolf or slasher movie it's the official Universal Wolfman. It has a history, pedigree and legacy to live up to and carry on. It means something. This mutant inbred hillbilly Deliverance thing is not the Wolfman. The trailer also makes me realize just how much of modern entertainment boils down to graphic violence against women and children. It's obvious I'm long past being the target audience for this stuff.You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...Comment
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Boyfriend and I just got back from watching Blumhouse Wolfman. Even though this was under Universal and was to be part of the Dark Universe it became a stand-alone movie.
Treat this as an art-type film loosely based on past work. The movie was entertaining and plenty of jump scares to make your partner need your arm. Worth watching at the theater at least once.
The bad is it just cannot compare to the Universal Monsters and there was no lead up to another movie. I can say this here, the transformation was lacking and not like the picture above.
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There are screengrabs and clips online. The wolfman looks like a scarred mottled hairless mutant rat thing.You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...Comment
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We liked The Invisible Man, The Black Phone, and I like Julia Garner so we'll definitely go see this. We'll just go in with the understanding that it will not be a Universal Classic and likely just another chapter in Hollywood's fashionable narrative: "women are virtuous survivors and men are worthless/weak/evil forces that need to be 'ended'".Comment
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This movie has already dropped to #7 at the box office, so it looks like it's going to end up as just a blip in the Universal Monsters history, and another failed remake. I know The Invisible Man did well both critcally and financially, but it seems so odd that no one can crack the code on getting these IPs popular for new audiences. I thought the 2010 Wolf Man remake was actually pretty solid. My only gripe was the swerve with Anthony Hopkins' father character, which was telegraphed immediately by the way he was portrayed. I think it took away a lot of the pathos from the Chaney original.Comment
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One of the problems I have noticed is they are trying to upgraded them to fit in with in with the slasher-porn horror. The Universal Monsters were timeless.
One of the problems with the originals, nobody thought the monsters were going to outshine the stars so the movies were one and done.
Another ways there the connection between the movies were not there until later. Either Dracula or the Wolfman should interconnect the movies.
Nowadays if they go back with the original writing and give them self an out so the monster can came back in another movie it would work.Visit my wiki site:
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My son and I went and saw this last night. The trailer had me intrigued. It was a fairly late showing on a movie that's been out for a while so I didn't expect many people in the theater, but there was quite a few people there.
The mother, Charlotte character is played by Julia Garner (Ruth from the Ozark series) and I just think she's fun to watch on screen. Sadly she wasn't "Ruth" in the movie, which I expected.
I quite enjoyed the movie, lots of tension in the beginning was very good IMO. Some parts were a little predictable, very few movies surprise me anymore, but I came away really enjoying it.
Personally I don't think it had to be call Wolf Man or be tied to being Universal Studios Monsters. It did stray a lot from what people are expecting from a Universal Wolf Man. Poor Universal they try hard but can't capture the classic "monster" we want.
This would have been better as a Cryptid type monster in folklore rather than trying to put a Wolf Man shaped peg into this hole.
But as I mentioned, it was fun to watch and I'm glad I saw it in the theater. I'm not sure the tension will translate to the small screen as much, so go see it in the theater!Comment
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