2010 · horror
The Wolfman
Directed by Joe Johnston1h 43m2010
Lawrence Talbot, an American man on a visit to Victorian London to make amends with his estranged father, gets bitten by a werewolf and, after a moonlight transformation, leaves him with a savage hunger for flesh.
Our read: The Wolfman (2010) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive horror entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
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How The Wolfman feels to watch.
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“You want misty Victorian werewolf atmospherics with Rick Baker creature work.”
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