*Blumhouse debuted the first official trailer for the horror feature “Wolf Man” during New York Comic Con today. The pic hails from writer-director Leigh Whannell, the visionary behind “The Invisible Man” and ” Insidious: Chapter 3.”
Here’s the film’s synopsis: “Christopher Abbott (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 (Julia Garner), fraying, Blake persuades Charlotte to take a break from the city and visit the property with their young daughter, Ginger (Matlida Firth),” per the news release.
“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,” the description continues. “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.”
Watch the new trailer via the YouTube clip above.
The film co-stars Sam Jaeger (The Handmaid’s Tale), Ben Prendergast (The Sojourn Audio Drama), and Benedict Hardie (The Invisible Man). Whannell, writer, and co-creator 2004’s “Saw,” produced “Wolf Man” with Blumhouse founder Jason Blum and executive producers Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, and Mel Turner. Whannell spoke with Entertainment Weekly earlier about his newest horror.
“These classic monsters like Dracula, the Wolf Man, Frankenstein have become so ubiquitous,” he said. “They’re a little bit safe now. My kids watch animated movies with those monsters running around and being voiced by Adam Sandler. So part of my thing with this movie was taking it out of that safe territory and putting it back in this truly horrific territory.”
Blum described “Wolf Man” as “a scary horror movie.”
“I think most of the Wolf Man movies that came before this have been softer,” he added. “I don’t mean that pejoratively. I just mean that this one is pretty hardcore.”
“Wolf Man” hits theaters on January 17.
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