Wolf Man (2025)

[wormlander]

I LOVE IT

It's already become one of my top 5 favorite supernatural King movies, together with "The Shining", "Silver Bullet", "The Mist" and "It chapter 1" (Just edging out "Doctor Sleep"). I get the critique of it being way too short to be considered a faithful adaptation of the novel, but for a condensed two hour movie I believe it's as good as it's ever gonna get. Also, I don't believe any of the longer TV productions have truly managed to capture King's finer character work either, with the one exception being "Storm Of The Century"...

 

[crows]

It's already become one of my top 5 favorite supernatural King movies, together with "The Shining", "Silver Bullet", "The Mist" and "It chapter 1" (Just edging out "Doctor Sleep"). I get the critique of it being way too short to be considered a faithful adaptation of the novel, but for a condensed two hour movie I believe it's as good as it's ever gonna get. Also, I don't believe any of the longer TV productions have truly managed to capture King's finer character work either, with the one exception being "Storm Of The Century"...

it was fun and entertaining and creepy. It was awesome

 

[Buttmunch]

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Better but still not great. Why bother teaming with Universal and using the Wolfman label if they didn’t want to keep the resemblance to the Chaney Jr look? The Del Toro makeup was much better at the that.

 

[Jmek]

I really liked the Joe Johnston movie, and the Wolfman makeup by Rick Baker was pretty awesome.
God I miss Rick Baker.

 

[batsheva]

Better but still not great. Why bother teaming with Universal and using the Wolfman label if they didn’t want to keep the resemblance to the Chaney Jr look? The Del Toro makeup was much better at the that.

I agree.

 

[ironwez20]

I guess cause that invisible man movie wasn't really like the original it was a tech suit of some kind. So I guess the new monsters are more realistic and modern? idk. Bad idea tbh. Universal is smart but they never really knew what to do with the monsters for some weird reason. That whole dark universe thing was odd. What the hell were they trying to build towards? Especially with that Mummy movie.

 

[BeefEaster]

I read somewhere that when Tom Cruise got involved with The Mummy, he basically took control and turned it into a completely different type of movie than what was originally planned.

 

[Buttmunch]

I guess cause that invisible man movie wasn't really like the original it was a tech suit of some kind. So I guess the new monsters are more realistic and modern? idk. Bad idea tbh. Universal is smart but they never really knew what to do with the monsters for some weird reason. That whole dark universe thing was odd. What the hell were they trying to build towards? Especially with that Mummy movie.

Well the Invisible Man just changed how he became invisible. He still looked invisible. The tech angle rather than a chemical one does seem to fit modern science better so it wasn’t an unreasonable change. Again, the Invisible Man looked the way you would expect - like nothing. The Wolf Man I would still expect to look like, well, a wolf-man.

 

[batsheva]

old time invisibility: chemical potion
modern time invisibility: some kind of nanocam tech

old time wolfman: a curse
modern time wolfman: still a ******* curse.

 

[Mr.E]

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Maybe it's an older werewolf? It does seem a little far removed from the traditional look. Not sure I'll see this, but I am curious.

 

[Dave_W]

Nothing beats Jackos werewolf

 

[batsheva]

Maybe it's an older werewolf? It does seem a little far removed from the traditional look. Not sure I'll see this, but I am curious.

I am curious too. Maybe.. an albino werewolf?

 

[crows]

but how many werewolves are there?
so the way the father looks hasn't been revealed.
so those pics are of the original wolf man that bites him?

 

[Mr.E]

I am curious too. Maybe.. an albino werewolf?

Male pattern baldness werewolf? Sickly old man werewolf? Alopecia? I think, but this is just a guess, that they're going with the virus aspect of it. Maybe.

 

[Mr. Awesome]

Eh, a Werewolf story is already pretty thin, plot-wise. We've seen it many times already. It's the creature design/makeup and types of kills that carry the films imo.

This just ain't it for me.

 

[MeatHookGekko]

This is definitely one of those films that make you wonder how it got green lit.

Response rates for Julia Garner is off the charts with focus groups. She is marketable to middle aged suburban college educated women in their prime earning years. And also appeals to a large cross section of the demographic pull of something like Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone audience. She even has a shade of what is affectionally known as "Pick Me" girl energy.

Garner is incredibly bankable for her age. She also has the quiet but forceful support of AIPAC behind her. She turns down a lot of offers, so that bodes well for the perceived quality of the script here. But we have to wait and see. I am cautiously optimistic. Garner by herself is enough to get some projects financed and green lighted.

As for the SFX on the "wolf", I'll wait and see. You can do a lot with set lighting, editing and clean up in post. In the middle of the 4th season of Ron Moore's Battlestar, they got a guest director, John Dahl, who was normally a film director used to stretching a very small budget. Back then, BSG suffered from a relatively small budget, major limitations on their sets, SFX was way more expensive and time consuming back then, but Dahl ( he did the episode called The Oath) basically showed the full potential of the kind of pacing, scope and scale possible within those limitations. His episode looks like an entirely different show at times compared to most other entries in the series. You can give the same resource base and set up to different people, and sometimes get wildly different results.

Within Ozark, sometimes there was great writing and sometimes there was middling writing. Many times, the cast were asked to do some heavy lifting and maximize some poor scripts. Garner got some rough writing IMHO during the middle of the show's run. There were time, along with Laura Linney, where she dragged that entire show on her back upwards. She's very impressive. I think it's a little more easy to see once you look at the Ozark scripts in the written form, then see how Garner converted it into some pretty compelling scenes. I'm more prone to give her the benefit of the doubt here.

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[choombaz]

I really liked the Joe Johnston movie, and the Wolfman makeup by Rick Baker was pretty awesome.
God I miss Rick Baker.

Yeah me too but The Wolfman was one of the projects that made him retire. He was pretty much pushed off the project when they kept using cg instead instead of his work.

 

[Luisenigma1]

Look at this BTS image of the Del Toro Wolfman. Jeez how did we go from this to the weird look we are getting now. Smh

 

[wormlander]

Look at this BTS image of the Del Toro Wolfman. Jeez how did we go from this to the weird look we are getting now. SmhView attachment 734651

I personally prefer "long-snouts", but as far as the classic Wolfman designs go this will be hard to beat...

 

[Luisenigma1]

I personally prefer "long-snouts", but as far as the classic Wolfman designs go this will be hard to beat...

I get what you mean. The Howling, Dog Soldiers made great werewolves design. Though this is "The Wolfman" apparently in film it's two distinct versions.