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Wolf Man (2025)—Directed by Leigh Whannell Review: A dark forest, a family on the run, and a terrifying howl in every direction: A new generation continues an old tradition in “Wolf Man… ...
Leigh Whannell might be the best B-movie director working today. In movies like “Upgrade” (2018), “The Invisible Man” (2020) and now “Wolf Man,” Whannell has taken arguably goofy ...
Jan 19, 2025 By Daniel Rester Web Exclusive Horror regular Leigh Whannell is back with another Universal Monsters remake after his success with The Invisible Man (2020). This time, he delivers a ...
Whannell, who also directed this year’s Wolf Man, doesn’t see the films he’s made that way. They’re connected, but “not in a connected universe-type way where you can expect a team-up ...
Wolf Man 2.5 out of 5 Stars Director: Leigh Whannell Writers: Leigh Whannell, Corbett Tuck, Lauren Schuker Blum, Rebecca Angelo Starring: Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner, Matilda Firth, Sam ...
‘Wolf Man’ Filmmaker Leigh Whannell Talks Key Deleted Scene and Why He’s Unwilling to Make ‘The Invisible Man 2’ The writer-director was partially inspired by a close friend who died of ...
He loves New York, and I can see a conversation happening between After Hours and Goodfellas. So, San Francisco feels more like that to me. There’s something that’s subconsciously linking all this ...
NEW YORK, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Wolf Man writer-director Leigh Whannell says he wanted his modern re-imagining of the classic Universal Pictures monster to be simultaneously familiar and distinct.
Chandler died at 44 on Dec. 22, 2023, of suicide, Whannell divulges. "It wasn't as if the film was written about him, but it was such a blast wave of shock," he says.
In Whannell’s film, Blake (Christopher Abbott) drives his business-hotshot wife Charlotte (Julia Garner) and young daughter Ginger (Matilda Firth) from their plush San Francisco apartment to his ...