Leigh Whannell's Wolf Man features a different origin for the werewolf condition at the center of the movie, a disease known as Face of the Wolf.

The Wolf Man, an iconic Universal Monsters movie, is a tragic tale of love lost and an innocent man robbed of his livelihood.

Wolf Man”—a reboot of Universal Studios’ classic movie monster—is new in theaters this weekend. Find out where you can stream its classic werewolf predecessors. theaters this weekend.

"Wolf Man," starring Juila Garner and Christopher Abbott tries a new spin on the classic werewolf movie. Lee Whannell co-wrote and directed the film.

He followed the Universal Monsters’ now-classic takes on Dracula, Frankenstein, the Bride of Frankenstein, and the Invisible Man into theaters, but Lon Chaney Jr. makes an indelible impression as Larry Talbot, a fish out of water in his ancestral Wales home even before his fateful encounter with a very particular kind of wolf.

The themes within “Wolf Man” are far blunter than “Invisible Man,” but it will be interesting to see if Whannell continues to use Universal’s monsters to tell another story of feminine trauma and resilience to create a trilogy of terror.

"Wolf Man" has moments of suspense and psychological tension but leans too heavily on jump scares and a weak story, says film critic Peter Travers.

A ccording to an old parable, we all hold two wolves within. We must feed the good wolf in order to build its strength. Then there’s the werewolf. It lives within as well. And when he comes out to play, bringing humanity’s suppressed animalism to the surface, you can bet there’s a bad moon rising.

“Wolf Man” then jumps ahead 30 years, to adult Blake (Christopher Abbott) out in a busy San Francisco enjoying daddy-daughter time with young Ginger (Matilda Firth). Like his father, he is very protective of his child, scolding her for not getting down from a construction structure she walks atop the moment he tells her to do so.

Wolf Man is the next instalment in arguably the oldest franchise in cinema history. Universal Monsters, which evolved through the silent era, features iconic characters like Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy and, of course, the Wolf Man.

Despite Christopher Abbott’s commitment, director Leigh Whannell's 'Wolf Man' update proves too slow and serious to satisfy horror fans.

"Wolf Man" writer-director Leigh Whannell told UPI he wanted his modern re-imagining of the classic Universal Pictures monster to be simultaneously familiar and distinct.