"Wolf Man" has moments of suspense and psychological tension but leans too heavily on jump scares and a weak story, says film critic Peter Travers.

"Wolf Man," starring Juila Garner and Christopher Abbott, is a new spin on the classic werewolf movie. Leigh Whannell co-wrote and directed the film.

Leigh Whannell’s werewolf reimagining magnifies the shifting tensions within a young family as Christopher Abbot is cursed with a monstrous inheritance.

Writer/Director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man, like 2020’s The Invisible Man, bears little resemblance to the Universal Monsters movie upon which it’s loos...

Director of 2020's innovative 'Invisible Man' breathes new life into the legend of man becoming beast.

Loosely based on The Wolf Man (1941), Wolf Man tells an old, predictable story with horror and heart.

Director Leigh Whannell makes horror films for grown-ups. Unlike his “Invisible Man” remake, though, this one is a bit of a slog.

A review of 'Wolf Man' , a reboot of Universal's classic 1941 monster movie starring Christopher Abbott as man who morphs into wolf-like beast

Leigh Whannell tempers the scares in Wolf Man, but ups the family melodrama, offering a tragedy in the classic Universal Monster tradition.

It's unleashed in cinemas this Friday.

Leigh Whannell follows his thrilling Invisible Man with a curiously dull, murky, and undercooked Wolf Man, in theaters now.

Leigh Whannell's 'Wolf Man' is a thrilling experience that’ll keep you on the edge of your seat. Read the full review on Dread Central.

Leigh Whannell reinvents the Universal Monster with Christopher Abbott going full werewolf. Read the Empire review.

Here's our verdict

WOLF MAN is a new horror movie from leigh Whannell. A werewolf-inspired story, but quite different – in a good way. Full Movie Review here >

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

Christopher Abbott and Julia Garner star in a film that feels jumbled and confused – by its end all you can ask is ‘huh?’

Leigh Whannell did a brilliant job of modernizing "The Invisible Man," but werewolves prove much harder to tame.

Leigh Whannell’s focus on the psychological over the physical may alienate some gorehounds, but it makes for an original take with subtexts that linger

One of our most elusive movie monsters avoids capture once again.

Filmmaker Leigh Whannell directed 2020's intriguing "The Invisible Man," but his latest classic monster redux is a shaggy mess that should have been curbed.

2025's "Wolf Man" delivers some impressive moments of slow-burn body horror, but it falls short compared to the original classic film.

Leigh Whannell follows up The Invisible Man with another present-day revival of a Universal Monster. This one bites.

Julia Garner and Christopher Abbott bring fresh blood to Universal Monsters.

Another smart, scary Universal horror remake from Leigh Whannell

Julia Garner stars as a weary wife to Christopher Abbott, who might be transforming into a savage animal, in this cabin-in-the-woods thriller.

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.

Why can’t wolf men just be wolf men anymore?

A film that’s half-hearted when it shows any pulse at all.

Universal futzed around with rebooting its classic werewolf horror franchise “Wolf Man” for years, and delayed releasing the latest finished film as well...

Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner and the director of 'The Invisible Man' attempt to flip the script on werewolf movies. It almost works.

A reboot, Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man is momentarily intriguing – but a shallow story and zero thrills makes this film all bark and no bite.

A man struggling in a strained marriage strikes out into the woods with his wife and daughter on a mission to reclaim a family farm and perhaps repair his re...

Christopher Abbot and Julia Garner head into the woods for Universal's horror revamp

Leigh Whannell's Wolf Man is unsettling and unnerving with scary moments of body horror, but certain weak elements hold the movie back. Here's our review.

Like his 2020 reboot of The Invisible Man, the Melbourne-born director’s new film pares a classic story back to its stark essentials.

The new creature starring Christopher Abbott and Julia Garner is, unfortunately, a beastly bore.

“In early 1995, a hiker went missing in the remote mountains of central Oregon,” reads the prologue over a gorgeous opening shot: a still, wide frame loo...

Leigh Whannell’s moody monster movie features gripping performances and effective jolts before running out of steam without fully pursuing its own ideas an...

Saw co-creator’s take on the gothic horror classic feels torn between the howling good fun its title promises and offering up instead a sentimental domesti...

Christopher Abbott and Julie Garner and director Leigh Whannell is normally terrific, but 'Wolf Man,' a family emo horror never really gels.

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Following his masterpiece The Invisible Man, the Australian writer-director Leigh Whannell returns with another thoughtful Dark Universe cast-off

Christopher Abbott and Julia Garner star in "Wolf Man," the new horror reboot from "The Invisible Man" director Leigh Whannell.

The body horror-fueled creature feature struggles to thread the needle of its family-under-siege premise with a cohesive message.

Despite Christopher Abbott’s commitment, director Leigh Whannell's 'Wolf Man' update proves too slow and serious to satisfy horror fans.

Leigh Whannell’s new horror film has some good scares, but it strands its characters in the murk.

After “The Invisible Man,” filmmaker Leigh Whannell is back to tackle another Universal Monsters movie.