WOLF MAN Director Discusses Creature Design; Says Halloween Horror Nights Reveal is “Spirit Halloween” Version
Last week a new trailer was released for Universal Pictures and Blumhouse’s Wolf Man and it offered a first brief look at the creature in nightmarish action.
The werewolf creature design looked exactly like what was revealed at Halloween Horror Nights, the one that got mixed reactions from horror fans, as it’s not the kind of creature design people were expecting.
While at New York Comic-Con, director Leigh Whannell talked about the creature design and in the process called out the Halloween Horror Nights reveal saying that it was the “Spirit Halloween” version.
He told CB: “First of all, we’ve got Arjen Tuiten doing the makeup and he’s a genius, the level of makeup that he can do. It’s kind of like, without spoiling anything, it’s like comparing a costume at Spirit Halloween to Rick Baker’s makeup.
“There’s a level of lighting and artistry. I can confidently tell you that the Halloween Horror Nights Wolf Man they had running around is not much like what we have going.”
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 (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.
What do you think about the Wolf Man design?