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Wolf Man



IMDb Info

Release Year: 2025
Runtime: 1h 43m
Country: Ireland, New Zealand, USA
Language: English
Genre Tags: Horror
Plot Summary: A family at a remote farmhouse is attacked by an unseen animal, but as the night stretches on, the father begins to transform into something unrecognizable.

Poster - Title Card


phancy.com rating:

phancy.com notes: Serviceable. Starts out with a strong opening, establishing themes of parents replaying their childhood trauma on their own kids, and parental gender dynamics, and then largely ignores them for a fairly standard werewolf movie. It's not bad, but they could've saved 20 minutes and just made a werewolf movie about a father struggling to avoid eating his family, backstory not needed. As is, he's not much of a character once the action gets going. We could've had a tighter story, and focused more on the wife and daughter, who don't have much to do in this, other than trying not to die.


Outside Reviews:

Brian Tallerico
2 out of 4 stars - rogerebert.com

Sadly, Whannell and his team never figured out how to break this story, delivering a film that's half-hearted when it shows any pulse at all, a movie that's almost obsessively underdone on every level from its low lighting to its subdued emotions to its lack of character depth. "Wolf Man" is one of those movies that exists in the space between bad and good, never offensively awful enough to qualify as a complete waste of time but falling short in so many individual elements that it dissipates from memory almost while you're watching it.


Jacob Oller
Grade: B- - Nobody knows what it's like, to be the Wolf Man

Relatively absent of jumpy gotchas or relieving humor—though there is a slightly tongue-in-cheek moment involving a doggy door—the film relies on injecting its Gothic origins with a dose of modern dread. Dangers lurk outside the home, but could just as easily infiltrate it. The march of death could hasten its pace for anyone at any time, rendering those around them impotent. These are recognizable during Wolf Man, though its duties as an R-rated Blumhouse horrorshow keeps it from fully embodying them. It's left as a half-breed mutt: lovable, but distinctly divided.