The filmmaker reveals the movies he screened for the Universal Monsters rebooters, discusses the importance of practical effects, and whether Bigfoot could be a Wolfman.

The staggering natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest becomes a bloodied hunting ground in writer-director Leigh Whannell's latest stab at monster mayhem: Wolf Man (now playing in theaters everywhere;

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.

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 Jaeger Rated: R for bloody violent content, grisly images and some language.

By Esther Zuckerman Shortly after the director Leigh Whannell’s 2020 take on “The Invisible Man ... Ginger (Matilda Firth), to his father’s remote Oregon home. His dad, considered missing for years, has finally been declared dead.

Wolf Man is the latest Universal Monster to get a modern treatment, but the film falls short of its renowned predecessor.

Christopher Abbott ("Poor Things") and Julia Garner ("Ozark") play a couple who go back to the husband's family home in Oregon, only to find terror in the woods.

The Wolf Man director talks body horror, the joys of practical effects and the influence of Michael Haneke and Jonathan Glazer.

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

The last time Leigh Whannell directed a movie ... “Wolf Man” begins in the mid-1990s in rural Oregon, where, on-screen text informs, a hiker is rumored to have encountered an airborne virus that brought great change to him, ending in something the ...

Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man boasts some impressive filmmaking and fresh spins on werewolf lore, but its story lacks bite.

Review: I liked Leigh Whannell’s take on “The Invisible ... and son hunting in a remote location in the forests of rural Oregon. The pair are attacked by a beast. Fortunate to escape, the ...