Leigh Whannell follows ‘The Invisible Man’ with another update on a classic from the Universal archives, unfolding in an isolated farmhouse in the Pacific Northwest.

The Leigh Whannell-directed film stars Christopher Abbott and Julia Garner. It's a good omen for the new ... horror that can't hold a candle to the 1941 classic with Lon Chaney Jr. or even the woebegone 2010 remake with Benicio del Toro.

Wolf Man”—a reboot of Universal Studios’ classic movie monster—is new in theaters this weekend. Find out where you can stream its classic werewolf predecessors. theaters this weekend.

Following in the footsteps of the latter, Leigh decided to bring his style to another Monster in Wolf Man. Considering that The Invisible Man walked away with critical acclaim for the reinvention of the horror icon,

Fans of “SCTV” may remember a “Monster Chiller Horror Theatre” episode in which Joe Flaherty’s late-night host, Count Floyd, mistakenly programs a made-up Ingmar Bergman film, “Whispers of the Wolf,” thinking it’s a simple werewolf picture instead of a moody, existential mashup of Bergman’s “Hour of the Wolf” and “Persona.”

No Larry Talbot, and no cool old gypsy woman talking about when the Wolf Bane blooms, but it’s still “Wolf Man.” Christopher Abbott gets his Lon Chaney, Jr. on as a man who relocates his family to a farm he inherits.

This despite a cast that includes the great Julia Garner, all dressed up (and down) with no place to go. There is a long history of werewolf, or wolfman, movies. Lon Chaney Jr. was famous for ...

Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man manages to strip the genre of its last shreds of dignity, replacing suspense with an onslaught of gore and nonsense.

Review - Australian writer-director Leigh Whannell takes a crack at a famous monster - and finds something new, Dan Slevin writes.

The new film “Wolfman” is another of those contemporary movies that manages to tell a story without meaning anything.

Classic movie monsters such as Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, and the Wolf Man didn’t originate in cinema; they first appeared in folk tales and literature. Yet for nearly 100 years, the looks and behaviors of these classic monsters have followed the model set by Universal Pictures.

Leigh Whannell’s take on the Lon Chaney Jr. classic stumbled at the box office and was almost immediately overshadowed when Nosferatu’s Robert Eggers announced his own werewolf movie—but it’s still a bold and unsettling domestic horror story worthy of your attention.