Leigh Whannell’s upcoming monster movie just got its first spooky teaser. Here’s the Wolf Man trailer.
It feels like Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man has been in the making for a small eternity now, but finally, the first reels of footage have been unleashed on the internet.
Universal Pictures has released the first teaser trailer for Whannell’s creature feature, which you can find below.
Well, colour us teased. We get a few glimpses of what might await our characters, but for the most part, Whannell keeps the monster hidden at this stage. Whannell directed the superb, very successful The Invisible Man, so we’d say the director knows a thing or two about concealing villains and making your audience wait for the reveal.
Wolf Man has gone through a lot of production troubles. Whannell was replaced by Derek Cianfrance momentarily before returning to helm the film and the titular monster was at one point due to be played by Ryan Gosling, but the Ken actor was ultimately replaced by Christopher Abbott. Yes, the same Christopher Abbott who played a goat in Poor Things.
Here’s the official synopsis for 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 (Matilda Firth; Hullraisers, Coma).
But as the family approaches the farmhouse in the dead of night, they’re attacked by an unseen animal and, in a desperate escape, barricade themselves inside the home as the creature prowls the perimeter. As the night stretches on, however, Blake begins to behave strangely, transforming into something unrecognizable, and Charlotte will be forced to decide whether the terror within their house is more lethal than the danger without.
Universal are also knee-deep in their Halloween Horror Nights events currently. The annual events run at Universal Studios’ theme parks, featuring spooky attractions like haunted houses, often modelled after popular horror films and a new look at Wolf Man debuted at one of these events.
If this is indeed the final look of Abbott’s monstrous character, we assume it’ll look a little more polished in the finished film, although we would respect Whannell a lot if he went full practical with the monster.
Wolf Man is set to burst into cinemas on 17th January 2025.
