#wolf man review

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THE WOLF MAN (1941)

The special effect makeup is actually pretty good. I laughed when I saw our Wolf Man because when he just stands in the middle of the forest, completely visible, he sticks out like a sore thumb. Most other classic creature features have their little quirks that you can get past and enjoy the rest of the movie but there was just so much about this film that was wild and hard to justify as a good choice.

⭐⭐.5

So a dude sees a lady through his telescope and instead of being a regular human being about it he shows up at her house/place of work and hits on her. WILD. She has a fiancée and everything (whom she won’t bring up til later, which is wack) and this dude is super pushy, I’m talking Ryan Gosling in The Notebook pushy (yeah, I didn’t like how he threatened to jump off a Ferris wheel if she wouldn’t go out with him, it was creepy, okay?). When he shows up later that evening to take her out he is even more creepy and I don’t get the chemistry between them (but I also didn’t enjoy or finish The Notebook so, maybe I’m not a true lover).

A friend tags along and the non-couple go to get their fortunes told in the most date-like scene ever but suddenly the friend is missing. The dude goes into the woods and finds her getting used as a chew toy by a wolf! He beats the beast to death with his silver cane… In the morning the corpse of the wolf is none other than a human and our main man is the leading suspect but he only remembers killing a wolf, and being bitten by it… But where the bite was, only a star shaped scar remains (which was adorable because it was freeform and not like a pentagram). Some stuff happens and bam, our boy is The Wolf Man.

Attempts to confide in the people around him about his hairy problem are made, but even though his town is flooded with rumors of werewolves and lycanthropy no one believes his cries. It isn’t until he sees the mark of death (hilariously) on his own beloved that things become too dire and grim so he does the exact same things he was doing before. His lady love goes to look for him in the woods, at night, alone, in the middle of a hunt, while a wolf is loose. Wild. Anyway the father ends up bludgeoning the were-son to death, to his horror, but he saves the girl. The townsfolk just think that our dude died fighting the wolf off the girl. No one will ever know or believe the truth of the matter.

This movie was rough, between the creepy plot of a man after a woman in a relationship and everything happening right at the very last moment. They really waited until the final moment of the film to resolve things which they did in a troubling but clever way, but there was a lot of space in the beginning of the movie that lacked purpose and movement (or so it felt, which is hard because this is a very short film at only one hour and ten minutes).

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Wolf Man (2025) Review

Possible Spoilers. At a secluded farmhouse, a family is attacked by a mysterious creature, and as the night wears on, the father undergoes a horrifying transformation. Leigh Whannell delivers tension and atmosphere, thanks to great sound design, locations, and an effective score. The Wolf Man is a well-crafted production with impressive practical effects and gore. As the film unfolds it has…

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Wolf Man (2025): REVIEW | Danixinhahhh

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Wolf Man 2025: *Has a very clear and well done storyline regarding intergenerational trauma accompanied by the painstaking efforts of breaking it*

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What do you think about Ocarina of Time?

Man this might be an unpopular opinion but I do not care for it. 😓 It's gameplay nor story ever really grabbed me, and although I appreciate some concepts in it, none of that is quite enough to carry the game for me.

For example I think Saria is a lovely character, and the concept that to save the world a child cant remain the innocent youngster they started as. How the home you grew up in may remain, but you've changed and no longer fit. 🤔 Sheik's conceptually really cool too.

I can see why people love the game, but it just isnt for me! Sorry! 🙏

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excuse me while i vomit up my thoughts about wolf man! i will be talking about spoilers!

by my icon, i feel like it should be pretty obvious that i love me some leigh whannell, and as far as directing goes, he really hits it out of the park! the writing on this movie, however, is ROUGH!

once it was over, my spouse and i did what we always do when we don’t like the plot of a movie - verbal rewrite it. i’m obsessed with what we came up with, and would love to see/read something with this plot.

i think the wife character should’ve been chopped. she’s not necessary, reads as extremely unlikable, and muddles the themes. cutting the wife might’ve also assisted with the HORRIBLE dialogue, because I don’t think it needed all of it. the sound design is so awesome that keeping it mostly quiet would’ve just added to the tension. also, all the great scenes of jumbled dialogue with the wife could’ve been replaced by the daughter.

the idea of having this dad who is trying to not scar his child, in the same way he was a boy, and get her safely out of this situation while he is losing himself to the transformation would’ve been SO COOL! the moments where he’s basically her guard dog are wonderful. (i can’t stop thinking about the scene where he’s mirroring the wolf man outside like a family dog on high alert.)

it would also call back to his conversation with his father in the woods where he tells him to listen to him so he doesn’t get hurt. this dad would not be able to communicate what he needs his daughter to do, but their connection is what leads her (the mind reading bit they do together.)

also can you imagine how BRUTAL it would’ve been to have a young child kill her father because she knows he doesn’t want to continue living like that. my jaw would’ve been on the floor the same way it was during the spider scene, arm scratching scene, jumbled speech reveal, and leg chewing off scene.

that’s the thing - so many scenes were SOOOO GOOD that it’s annoying that this extra character ruined so much of it. every time i felt myself getting emotional or really into it, the wife was there being stiff and recapping the movie as if we didn’t just watch. we had to keep ourselves from laughing so we didn’t disturb the only other person in the theater during the grandpa reveal scene. why did we need her to say all of that. we didn’t. it’s not that i think she was making dumb decisions or anything - she simply just didn’t need to be there.

it’s weird because i feel like i both loved and hated it. i liked so much and there was just this glaring annoyance with the wife and bad dialogue.

i mean the pov scenes are INCREDIBLE. the sound design, effects, father/daughter relationship, sets, and acting from the lead actor had me floored. i want to watch it again because im OBSESSED which is such a bizarre feeling since i hated one of the biggest parts of it.

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Dread by the Decade: Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

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★½

Plot: Unable to die naturally due to the werewolf's curse, Talbot seeks out Dr. Frankenstein's research in the hopes of ending his suffering.

Review: Despite a rather fun start, this film is utterly undone by awful writing, weak performances, and a wildly disappointing final showdown.

Sequel to: The Wolf Man (1941) and The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) Year: 1943 Genre: Sci-Fi Horror, Werewolves Country: United States Language: English Runtime: 1 hour 12 minutes

Director: Roy William Neill Writer: Curt Siodmak Cinematographer: George Robinson Editor: Edward Curtiss Cast: Lon Chaney, Jr., Patric Knowles, Dennis Hoey, Bela Lugosi, Ilona Massey, Lionel Atwill, Maria Ouspenskaya

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Story: 1.5/5 - A nonsensical mishmash of retcons, forced exposition, and coincidences designed solely to make two horror icons meet for an anticlimax.

Performances: 1.5/5 - Chaney is not up to the task of playing such a tragic character, and Lugosi's version of the Monster is just terrible.

Cinematography: 3.5/5 - The framing and lighting are the film's greatest strengths, especially during night scenes.

Editing: 3/5 - Used decently for the Wolf Man's transformations.

Music: 2.5/5 - Generic, though the festival song adds some fun.

Choreography & Stunts: 1.5/5 - Messy, repetitive, and unintentionally comical.

Effects & Props: 3/5

Sets: 3/5 - Diverse and well-dressed enough, but not very memorable.

Costumes, Hair, & Make-Up: 1.5/5 - Much cheaper than its predecessors.

Trigger Warnings:

Mild violence

Anti-Roma stereotyping and racism (only semi-critical)

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🌕Wolf Man Review🏠

I try to stay away from scary movies as much as I can. But having a mother that loved werewolf movies as a kid. I saw Wolf man… and it wasn't good.

Well let me start off by saying this movie isn't about a werewolf. It's about somebody that contracted a virus that made them kind of werewolf esque but they're not a werewolf and it's not really scary. It's really just the noises that scare you, a door slam, a creaky floor, that type of thing; It also lacks story and emotion. I asked my mom what she'd thought about the film and she said it was okay but she wouldn't watch it again.

So I guess I would only recommend this movie to people that are really into that "werewolf lore" and you don't mind if the movie's good or bad, but don't expect much. Otherwise, I would say skip it. 🍭

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I can't imagine most wolf 359 characters as using social media too much, like, minkowski has Facebook (aquiesince to modern social norms for her age group) Pinterest (she actually likes this one.) Lovelace might go online to research calm vacation spots and watch Netflix but other than that and research she doesn't really go online very much. @commsroom has talked about hera getting into internet fights (and like. She would, but I do not want that for her.) And eiffel's minimal internet usage. This is all to say that if he were a slightly different person the wolf 359 character most likely to run a Tumblr blog is hilbert.

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I mean, in hindsight…Wolf Man felt like it was just about the reality that sometimes people die and you can’t talk to them anymore. No matter how hard you try to protect them. So maybe stop ruining the time you have with them by obsessing over your fear of death. It’s coming for us all, so be happy and say “I love you” with the time you have.

That’s what I think the Main Point of the movie was. Blake straight-up says it while he’s talking with his wife at the beginning of the movie. “We don‘t have a lot of time, so I want us to enjoy each other while we can.”

…so why do I feel dissatisfied with that? Is it just my ideal of monster-movies being thwarted? I think that’s it.

Because for a story like this, what’s the point of having him turn into something that can hurt the people he loves? And actively infect them with the “death that comes inevitably?”

The fact that the sickness he’s losing himself to is bestial, and violent, and territorial, and cannibalistic?

What does that have to do with it? Any life-threatening disease afflicting the main character could’ve told this story. Any sickness, or psychosis, or Bird-Box-style madness could’ve sent the “Enjoy and Communicate With The Ones You Love Before Death Takes You Apart” message. Why werewolves?

Is it just because of a lack of communication ability? Ever seen War for the Planet of the Apes? None of the infected humans can speak and they get more bestial and less like themselves gradually, in that movie, too. You don’t have to have werewolves in your movie to send that message.

And werewolves are, again, specific: they’re violent, they’re brutal, they’re dogged, they’re territorial, they’re never-endingly hungry. What does any of that have to do with who Blake is, as a character? Or who his family is?

Nothing.

I just feel like whatever the director was going through in his personal life had him zooming way-way in on this idea of the horror of disease and the proximity of death, and the tragedy of not being able to talk to your loved ones anymore. And there’s only the tiniest grain of that in werewolf fiction. Larry Talbot being afraid of the transformation itself, and his loved ones trying to communicate with him when he’s a monster—that’s just one trope. It’s not even a trope that is in all werewolf fiction.

What about all the other stuff? Why was that the message in a werewolf movie? And what am I supposed to take from the plot thread about dads being so afraid for their children that they scare their children?—“Watch out, kids, sometimes your parents get so obsessed with protecting you that they hurt you—AND HAVE TO BE PUT DOWN!!”

Whaaat?

Not to mention Charlotte didn’t mover her facial muscles to convey emotion for ninety percent of the movie. And that little girl was doing a great job of telling her dad how much she loved him and enjoying her time with him, why did she need this lesson?

“She didn’t, it was her mom who needed this lesson.”

No, okay, no, because Charlotte didn’t learn that lesson. She said “okay.” She went on the trip to the woods, as soon as her husband asked, to spend more time with him. She was willing. She asked him how he felt as soon as she heard his dad passed, so it's not like she needed to learn to "remember to say important things when it really counts" if we take that moment, early in the movie, as an example. Where was the need to teach this specific cast of characters this lesson?

It's not there.

Good movie. But wrong message for this monster.

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Movie Review...Wolf Man

(4/5) There is an impressive blend of genres at play in "Wolf Man", merging the virus horror of "28 Days Later" with the timeless monster motifs of Hollywood's classic pantheon—Dracula, Mummy, and Werewolf. The protagonist's physical metamorphosis is evocative of David Cronenberg's "The Fly," serving as a visceral, outward manifestation of the film's thematic undercurrents.

The film opens in the past, establishing the oppressive childhood environment of our lead character. Raised by an abusive father in a secluded, doomsday-prepper setting, the young boy's life is marked by volatility and isolation. The atmosphere is palpably tense, with the father's temper flaring violently, leaving the boy desperate to escape his harsh upbringing.

Fast-forward to the present, our protagonist has ostensibly left his past behind, now residing in the city with his family. However, the specter of his father's temper resurfaces in unsettling moments, indicating the inescapable shadow cast by his formative years. The narrative takes a poignant turn when he receives a letter from the state, notifying him of his estranged father's death. Seeking closure and perhaps some semblance of reconciliation with his past, he returns to his childhood home, only to confront the very monster he has been running.

In contrast to "The Beast Within," "Wolf Man" deftly explores themes of fate, generational curses, and the haunting struggle to overcome a legacy of emotional abuse. The film masterfully uses the horror genre to deliver a narrative that is both terrifying and deeply resonant, marking it as a standout in its field.

From Blumhouse and visionary writer-director Leigh Whannell, the creators of the chilling modern monster tale The Invisible Man, comes a terrifying new lupine nightmare: 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 (Matlida 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 outside (rottentomatoes.com).

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Wolfman 2025

ANOTHER monster flix less than a month apart what a treat.

So let's get into another movie review! Warnings for spoilers and talks of generational trauma.

Movie starts out with our main character Blake with his father out hunting in the woods. Blake's father warns him to be aware of his surroundings as the forest is dangerous. We witness his father as an angry man but he tells his son he is just teaching him how to take care of himself. They are soon chased down by an unknown animal and find shelter in a deer strand. Blake's father aims for the animal and misses. Blake is seen in the corner of the strand with a singular tear running down his cheek afraid of what was out there and what his father was withholding from him. Thirty years later, Blake is settled in with his family, a daughter named Ginger and his hardworking journalist wife Charlotte. We see the power dynamic in the family as Blake is the stay at home dad, trying so hard to be a better father than his was, and his wife is disconnected from their daughter as she's always caught up in work. Blake receives a letter stating his father was now declared deceased since he had disappeared in the woods long ago. Blake suggests to his family to take a family vacation in the cabin he grew up in so he could also retrieve his father's belongings. They rent out a truck and head towards the cabin passing. Blake runs into someone who also grew up in the same part of the woods and stops to ask for directions. (This character introduced is a throw away character you'll understand in a second) He offers to come along with the to show them the way and off they go. They're approaching the cabin when a figure appears in front of them in the middle of the road. The truck swerves out of the way and ends up going downhill flipping the truck over. Their passenger falls out and is dragged away by this mysterious entity that was out there hunting them and the family takes shelter in Blake's childhood home. But they soon notice Blake was injured by whatever was out there and he was slowly becoming more and more sick losing his ability to understand his family or to talk to them. As Charlotte was calling for help over the radio Blake continued to undergo the transformation into "The Wolf Man" (TITLECARD)

Charlotte attempted and succeeded of getting an old truck to start up to drive to safety in this deserted, no signal, no power grid part of the mountains. But in true horror movie fashion, another werewolf (this word is never mentioned in this movie but that's what they are... idk it bothered me I just had to mention) jumps out chasing them down. A wolfman showdown happens and Blake is Alpha wolf and killed the wolfman that was trying to hurt his family. It is revealed that the wolfman was Blake's father by a tattoo he had on his forearm after he was killed. But slowly he can't help as his own wolfman tendencies come over him and it leads to him hunting down his own wife and daughter, and parallels his childhood as his wife and daughter take shelter in a deer strand from him now. Charlotte takes a shotgun and kills Blake point blank. Charlotte and Ginger mourn over his death but still have to try to get back home, hearts empty, surrounded by the beauty of nature, mountains and valleys, but nothing but sorrow lingers in the air.

This film has a clear message. One that I can definitely relate to and I'm sure a lot of others can. We do a lot to try not to be the monsters who raised us, but sometimes the damage is too deep leading to generational trauma. A seemingly never ending cycle. Lying to ourselves that we're nothing like our parents' but we become blinded to who we actually are. But I want to remind everyone the cycle can end with you. You don't have to take the route Blake took. Find healing before you become the monster.

Now to the side comments:

This movie was dark. I mean in the literal form. I could barely see it on screen. But this does force you to see how Charlotte and Ginger are fighting for their life in this dark forest. We see from Blake's perspective and his newly formed night vision. His extremely sensitive hearing. His internal struggle. The transformation he underwent was so excruciating to watch you can only imagine the pain he's going through. This movie was a spooky watch but also heart wrenching seeing a man who wanted nothing more than to be a better father. I really hope you give this movie a try and let me know how you liked it! Till next time!

Love,

Gabby

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Plodding and predictable generational trauma porn you wish had some scares just to keep you awake. 

On the plus side *crickets*

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