As a fan of the old Universal Monster movies, I was looking forward to the next one to be remade by Blumhouse. When Blumhouse had done The Invisible Man back just before the pandemic, it was such an enjoyable film and offered some great new ideas for the topic.

Wolf Man did not have a lot of new ideas. It was basically what you would expect.

According to IMDB, “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.“

Positives: The film looked great. I enjoyed the visuals of the Wolf Man and I approved of how they kept the original creatures reasonably hidden for most of the first act or so of the film. The transformation, which was slow and took its time, was very effective.

The stress-level of the film was building as the transformation happened. You never was sure what was going to happen as the family tried to stay alive.

Julia Garner and Christopher Abbott did a nice job with their roles of married couple Charlotte and Blake. I was impressed with the young actress, Matilda Firth, who played thier daughter Ginger. Her terrified ractions were very solid and worked for the film.

The problem is that this story is so very thin and did not have anything more to it. None of the characters were sufficiently developed, with only Blake having any basic depth to him. The story was so simple that it left me wishing there was more to it.

I do think that this movie has technical aspects that are worth seeing and if you go into it not expecting too much, this is a passable monster movie. Unfortunately, Wolf Man does not reach the heights, especially story-wise, that some of the previous werewolf films do.

3.2 stars