Universal's "WOLF MAN" (2025) Unleashes A Frightful First Look (TRAILER)
What’s old is new again, and when it comes to the Universal Monsters there is no expiry date on relevance. After their pre-pandemic hit, “The Invisible Man”, Blumhouse and Universal are once again teaming up to bring another classic monster into the modern light with “Wolf Man.” After a short teaser trailer that debuted in September, we are now getting a fuller look at what Leigh Whannell and crew are breeding for the upcoming January 17, 2025 release date.
Check out the new trailer and more details about the film in the press release below. We are happy to see them shying away from showing too much of the monster, and the more intimate focus on a family stuck in a cabin elevates the tension while still holding onto the domestic familial and societal metaphors “The Invisible Man” reveled in. Will you be howling for this reimaging in January?
From The Press Release
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 without.
The film co-stars Sam Jaeger (The Handmaid’s Tale), Ben Prendergast (The Sojourn Audio Drama) and Benedict Hardie (The Invisible Man), with newcomer Zac Chandler, Beatriz Romilly (Shortland Street) and Milo Cawthorne (Shortland Street).
Wolf Man is directed by Whannell and written by Whannell & Corbett Tuck. Whannell’s previous films with Blumhouse include The Invisible Man, Upgrade and Insidious: Chapter 3.
The film is produced by Blumhouse founder and CEO Jason Blum p.g.a., and Ryan Gosling (The Fall Guy, Lost River) and is executive produced by Leigh Whannell, Beatriz Sequeira, Mel Turner and Ken Kao. Universal Pictures and Blumhouse present a Gosling/Waypoint Entertainment production, in association with Cloak & Co: Wolf Man
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