Watching two movies regarding humans turning into wolves and werewolves in less than a month apart must be a new record for me. Werewolves was a pretty atrocious movie. Could Wolf Man clean things up and provide some good, fun entertainment in this mythical creature genre? Sadly, no, it doesn’t. What’s worse is that it’s only just a tad bit better than Werewolves, which isn’t particularly a good thing. I believe it tries to separate itself by highlighting more of the “turning-into-a-wolf-man” process, but it ultimately still falls flat.

So one of the first things I’ve noticed is how the family of Blake, Charlotte, and Ginger just doesn’t seem like an actual family? Played by Christopher Abbott as the husband and Julia Garner as the wife, they just don’t seem like a couple on-screen. Charlotte, I think, looks much younger than Blake and could likely pass as his daughter at times. Blake is this gritty, survivalist-looking dude, while Charlotte portrays a dainty flower. In fact, due to her younger looks, the movie poster itself seems a bit off? Like she’s the mother of Ginger, but if you look at the poster, you likely could never tell that from first glance. Rather, they both could be mistaken as just friends lost in the woods or something. Maybe even as an older sister holding the hands of her younger sibling? I think the casting department did a poor job here, as there was hardly any on-screen chemistry between the husband and wife at all pre-wolf turn.

I guess the one semi-neat aspect of Wolf Man is how it tries to occasionally give us the POV of Blake during his transition? However, this trick quickly turns repetitive as they fail to do anything interesting with it other than to show that Blake is no longer able to hear anything intelligently, as well as being able to see in a different color spectrum. The coolest scene by far has to be the part where he hears the loud and repetitive thumps upstairs in the house only to find that it was just a spider crawling. That was some Spider-Man type shit right there. Other than this, the movie was just below average as a whole. The entire second half of the movie was just waiting for Blake to slowly turn into Wolf Man, with Charlotte and her daughter trying to escape. When the plot twist arrived, it just fell so flat that you’d hardly even care. Oh, I find the design of Wolf Man to be a bit hilarious. I saw someone mention that he reminded them of a cracked-out drug fiend on the streets, but to me, the look reminds me more of The Monkey King, Wu-Kong. Well, at least a darker version of him.

Cmon, ya’ll. It can’t be just me. 🤣