Wolf Man (2025) MOVIE REVIEW
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- Here is my review of the new version of Wolf Man! #horror #horrormovies #wolfman #wolfmanmovie #werewolf #filmreview #moviereview #theawardscontender
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*_"Wolf" (1994),_* Starring Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer is a solid werewolf film that gets slept on.
Second that. For some reason I've heard it getting criticized or even mocked, but in my opinion it was solid, with some really interesting interpersonal dynamics and ideas.
Correct!!!
I watch Wolf whenever I can.
Agreed!
Yes! Normally I don’t like 2-legged wolf man type of werewolves but Wolf is the exception. The savageness of when they’re going at it fighting in the horse stable was awesome! Very wolf-like! And the acting in that movie is phenomenal.
So thankful you mentioned how dark it was. I felt like maybe it was just my theater because I haven’t seen many people talking about how awfully lit it was
Jack Nicholson's "Wolf" should get an honorable mention.
Really bad movie. Do you like Werewolves jumping off trampolines?
@robertsaladino Everybody has a opinion. 🤷🏾♂️
Naming it Wolfman just to draw a crowd. Better ones on Tubi.
Seemed to drag on a lot. Felt like a 3 hr movie.
Can you do your most anticipated films coming out in 2025 video. I’m very much curious on your picks. ❤
That would be awesome
Did you see the 2010 The Wolfman with Anthony Hopkins, Benicio del Toro and Emily Blunt? It's a throwback in style reminding me of the old Sherlock Holmes movies.
I wanted to like the Wolfman with del Toro... but it was pretty bad.
I saw it in the theater. I liked it. It wasn't the best thing ever but it was well made.
I liked that one a lot. A fun, re-wachable popcorn horror movie
I liked that movie, especially the directors cut was actually pretty decent, very nostalgic plot and design to original wolfman. This movie didn’t feature a werewolf it featured a sick deformed humanoid
@@bellinousbad film
Gotta see the one with bencio del Toro and Anthony hopkins
I agree with everyone in the comments, The Wolfman with Benicio Del Toro from 2010 is such a slept on film. They had a really good cast, they got the time period atmosphere well, and the werewolf was actually a werewolf. You can nitpick the transformation but when he fully turns it's a great costume. Give it a chance
I really think the 2010 remake was great!
🎉I love Maria Ouspenskaya as the gentle gypsy woman in The Wolf Man and Frankenstein meets the Wolf Man.
Benifiico Del Toro’s The Wolf Man
It not a werewolf movie. It about t how a family deals with a horrifying disease.
"Wolfman"
@ i don’t understand your response
@Hogtownboy1 it's called wolfman. It's a Werewolf movie, just not a great one.
@ ii meant it not regular werewolf movie but a body horror.
It’s seemed really chopping the way they edited it to make it under two hours. It seemed like they shot a lot more but took it all out like you said and made super simple I hope we get an extended edition. It reminded of dr sleep where I didn’t care for the theatrical release but loved the extended edition and watch that all the time.
The rumor going around is Ryan Gosling originally conceived this idea of a Wolfman remake with the intent it was going to be more faithful to the source material before Leigh Whannell made it clear he wanted to make a movie that was Wolf Man in name only (there's a great sculpt concept by the amazing Mike Marino out there of the idea Ryan Gosling had in mind before Whannell came on board).
Oh wow The Invisible Man was my #1 movie of 2020 also. Thought i was the only one!
It sounds like visually the new Nosferatu would be a good movie to contrast this to
It was visually a very dark movie rooms lit by candle feel like they are truly lit by candle yet you can still see enough to make out what's happening
You said what all the other reviewers said . . . pretty bad movie in general . . . .
Wolfen with Albert Finney is pretty underrated
And The Howling came out same year as American Werewolf in London
This movie was always doomed to failure because of blumhouse
Darn. Sad to see he isn't flying high on the coat tails of The Invisible Man. I guess I can save my $25 for another release (and for online Sundance screenings) this month, lol
I don't listen to reviews, I make up my own mind about movies. I would have missed many gems if I listened to negative reviewers.
@ with thousands of movies on my watchlist, I’ll skip this one for now unless it happens to be on
I think you'd like Werewolves Within (2021) from Josh Ruben! It's a really fun comedy whodunnit.
I'd also recommend the French film Teddy (2020) and the Brazilian film Good Manners (2017) if you want to see a fresh werewolf film from outside the USA.
I was SO excited about this movie... but, now after your review and a few others who I love have also been so dissapointed, I think I'm just gonna skip it 🥺 Leigh Whannel has never really let me down, I loved Upgrade and The Invisible Man... I can't believe he played it so safe with this movie. Thank you for the warning Brian!
Most of the comments I've seen are 50/50.
Fish Jelly liked it and they're pretty picky. I don't always agree with them but they're entertaining.
Heard it's not an action movie and he looks more like a zombie than a wolf.
Him saying it's too dark is a bummer 🙄 Planned to see it tomorrow.
@@lkf8799 LOVE FishJelly!!!! I think I'll still check this out, but probably not going to rush to the theater to see it now
You did not mention "Company of Wolves". I grew up in the 60's with Lon Chaney as my hero. This mess is essentially a cast of three, dragging out the same thing until the time runs out. I wish they would have named it something else!
I rewatched Invisible Man to see if it was as good as I remembered or just COVID tax but it holds up! It's a really good movie with a premise that has little to do with the source material but it all works to a strong conclusion. Wolfman is one of the Big 3/4 Universal Monsters and comes with certain expectations and Whannell just dropped the ball. I'm struggling to see how and why it went wrong.
The characters were incredibly stupid, I can’t remember the last time I yelled at the screen so much. I actually wanted the wolf to take the daughter out.
king could you please review nosferatu? i love your channel so much and am such a fan of your in-depth reviews, i'm excited to hear what you thought of that classic monster remake!!!
I found Wolf Man fine, it just has nothing to do with the classic Universal Monster movie. The 2010 remake imho is one of the better werewolf films - even if it has some ludicrous moments. It's best enjoyed in the director's cut. I'm glad it has kind of been reevaluated - even though there's still a lot of hate towards it (which I never understood). The problem with most werewolf movies - even the one with a great storyline - is an unconvincing werewolf make up. My recommendations for other good or great werewolf movies are: Hammer Studio's "The Curse of the Werewolf" with Oliver Reed, "Wolf" with Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer, the French 2014 "Wer" which is filmed in documentary style and "The Cursed" aka "Eight for Silver". But the best remains "An American Werewolf in London".
I hope you review One of Them Days with Keke Palmer and SZA.
A good werewolf movie i saw recently was WEREWOLVES 2024. I highly recommend
LAMB is a great horror film from 2021. A couple find a being with the head of a lamb on their farm. They decide to raise it, not realizing the horror that follows.
Eight for silver 2021 was best werewolf movie in recent years, very scary period movie, terrifying werewolf designs
When I saw it was a Blum House movie I immediately lowered my expectations even though I enjoy Leigh Whannell’s work. I thought it was a solid movie
I’ve always enjoyed Hammer Films “Curse of the Werewolf” with the very talented Oliver Reed.
I hear you and it could have been better. I did think it was an original take on the wolf man. I liked the different view points of the wife, child and the father interacting together. It was more of a illness vs something super natural happening. Overall my family of 5 liked it. I'd give it a 7 out of 10.
omg !!!! This movie The Wolf Man I saw it on Saturday with my family it was my first time watching this kind of movies I did got a lot of big jump scares it was insane and wow i give it 9.5\10
Underworld 1 and 2!!
To be fair, I don't know if it was flatness, I think she was on the freeze part of fight or flight spectrum.
For some reason they seem to do their utmost to make Julia Garner unattractive in this one. And it just looks like an X-Files episode to me.
I don't buy that she was ever his wife. That androgynous look is off putting and screams, "I hate men."
My favorite Werewolf Movie is the Howling Eddie Quist was Badass
Like the lynching scene in Till? You don't see it, but you hear it. That scene has given me nightmares.
We always get bad movies in January lol
Is this the movie that Leigh Whannell spent his five years on? Such an underwhelming affair...
Check out "Werewolf: Beast Among Us". Best werewolf movie since American Werewolf in Paris (actually better).
Werewolves was a good modern werewolf film.
Agreed! It was phenomenal
@BayneBloodmoon
I want to see a prequel.
@anubusx Same here! Glad to see another person enjoys Frank Grillo's Werewolves!
I love Christopher abbot since the show girls. He is so talented and handsome.
He was so good in poor things.
When you speak about her ''flatnes'' acting, personally I disagree. I did see the fear in her eyes, but I also saw that she was seeing her husband, the father of her daughter. Willl you really do a 180 on the person you love the most just like that? Like the whole story happens in one night. I thought it was well done. When she open the door and lets him in again, you can feel this 100%. She's afraid, but it's her freaking husband.
I agree characters could've been developed a lot more and it would've made the movie a lot better, but come on, the acting was good.
Why not just go " Megan man", or a next step in the " night swim" franchise🚽🗑️
Any gay men in the audience that find werewolves attractive? Asking for a friend
I understand what you mean by the movie being poorly lit, and basically dark. I felt that way about Nosferatu, as much of it was too dark.
Wasn't Abbigail supposed to be another one of these movies that got forcibly hollowed out and genericized? Some offshoot of the original Dracula stories about his daughter? Abigail was to have been the obvious daughter, the generic ass vampire gangster was to have been THE Dracula HIMSELF showing up at the end?
Wolfman with Anthony Hopkins was good the howling was good silver bullet and werewolf in London werewolf in Paris and ginger snaps were all good
I just saw it today and I fell asleep on it after his hair fell hour. It was so boring. I wake up and the movie was over. A waste of 14 dollar ticket
Hear me out: Leigh Whannell's Island of Lost Souls..
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Excellent film. Good lessons about abandoning masculine teachings and lacking maternal qualities. More of a thinking person's monster movie about our masculine/feminine rolls in the Family structure, and society in general. It's not a "big dumb fun" Wolf Man movie.
The invisible Man is excellent
am I the only one who thought invisible man was overrated? thought the last one with Kevin Bacon was better
Why would you watch the old classic Wolfman movie then watch the new one but only to compare?
Why would ANYONE remake or would want to watch a remake of The Bride of Frankenstein
One of the Greatest Films Ever
money
@@MiguelPerez-r4b Doesn't strike me as that - not a lot of these remakes made that much money - usually they barely break even
personally my favorite is the 2010 the wolfman
No awards? Not even the Razzies? 😂
6/10 it was a decent watch but nothing that I would watch again.
The movie "bad moon" wasn't too bad
It's more a Wendigo movie than werewolf.
It's not 90 minutes... It's 1 hour 44 minutes... Of a werewolf movie without a werewolf, but some hobo instead of it... Waiting for pay off that never comes
What about the other wolf man with Benecio DelToro?
You should give Spoiler warnings if youre going to tell what happens in the movie. I havent seen it yet, so had to stop watching.
Saw last night and I loved it
I liked the Invisible Man too until I heard Shane Gillis describe it lol
No love for The Howling?
totally agree
A bad Blumhouse movie? Shocker. 🙄
I think the movies theme flew over many peoples heads. It was a film about disease and how it affects us whether it be neurological or pathological. It looks at how a disease can affect the individual on all fronts as they are undergoing this horrible change and how it affects their family. This film shows how people go through the stages of death- this is seen through his wife and her actions. We see how a man trying to stay away from the generational curse that he was raised through, become a creature that is hell bent on going against the values installed into him ( rather harshly from his dad). We see him try to fight the urge to hurt his family understanding that he is changing- but ultimately knows this is inevitable. I think you need to watch it again if you can and try to open your mind vs going into the film with expectations. Your tgeatger might have had techincal issues because we all were about to see grossly what occured in darkness. Ultimately this film is very divisive. I love that because discussions can be created based on pros and cons.
I wasn't impressed with it much other than the visuals.
Definitely skip its garbage the 2010 version better
Terrible review. Rambling and not consise. Get to the point.
seeing it in 5 hours
Twilight hello?
Sad
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