Universal Pictures' WOLF MAN Slapped with an R-Rating for "Violent Content and Grisly Images"
Another one of Universal Pictures’ monster movies has received an R-rating from the MPAA. Despite rumors that Wolf Man would be rated PG-13, it is officially rated R.
Director Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man was also rated R, and he previously assured fans that this latest take on the Wolf Man would mark a return to "real horror," and we’ve not learned that the movie will be filled with “Bloody violent content, grisly images and some language.”
Whannel previously said of the film, “[Wolf Man] is me saying, ‘I just wanted to make something that is straight-up, pure horror.’” He also said that he wanted to make a werewolf movie that audiences have never seen before.
In the film, Blake (Christopher Abbott), a San Francisco husband and father, “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; 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 movie is set to be released in January 2025.