The Stream: Slightly boring and too predictable

The Big Screen: Cool view from werewolf POV and one gross thing

The Final Bill: Such a typical story that you can almost know everything from the trailer

– S2S: Movie Review
Director: Leigh Whannell
Writers: Leigh Whannell, Corbett Tuck
Stars: Julia Garner, Christopher Abbott, Sam Jaeger
Genre: Horror, Werewolf Horror, Body Horror
Rating: R (Language, violence)
Runtime: 1 hour 31 minutes
Production Companies: Universal Pictures, Blumhouse Productions, Cloak & Co.
Platform: Released in theaters January 17, 2025
Notable Trailers: The Amateur, Companion, Flight Risk, A Working Man, The Woman in the Yard, Drop

New Year, Who dis, Streamers! Welcome back to Stream to Big Screen! We’re still here to save you money and time when watching movies. This week we are going to save you money and time on the newly released, Wolf Man. A family at a remote farmhouse is attacked by an unseen animal, but as the night stretches on, the father begins to transform into something unrecognizable. As such, werewolf hijinks ensue.

If you’ve seen the trailer, then you’ve seen everything you need to know about the movie. The only thing you don’t get about the story from the trailer you get in the first 5-10 minutes of the movie, and it’s all predictable from there. That’s almost the most annoying thing about the movie. They followed the playbook to a tee here and it can’t get any more boring. You can guess exactly what’s going to happen and how it happens. When I saw the movie in the theater, a lady gasped near the end when she realized who a wolf man was. I almost walked out of the theater in disgust from her genuine surprise. I can’t state how predictable this movie is. But don’t let me drone on. Let’s talk about how consistently inconsistent this movie is. One example that got on my nerves was that they see the wolf man in the middle of the day at first but from that point on everyone was like don’t go outside at night. Hold on! Y’all showed us this man is outside attacking things in the middle of the day. No time of day is safe, so why are you saying this night fear thing. And, Julia Garner (a.k.a “Dang it, Marty!”) does not look like any 9 or 10-year-old’s mom. Stop it! I’m rambling now.

Now, just so I’m not droning on about the negatives of this movie I’ll throw in a positive. The movie is super short. Oh, the days of an hour and half flick were so glorious, and Wolf Man has gotten us back to our roots. Though predictable, the movie gets to the point pretty quickly, but then it drags on. The only other interesting part of this movie is a cool filming perspective they give the main character as he transitions. It is a pretty cool trick they use, but even with that they go to the well too many times and you sit there saying, “yep, they are going to show us his view again and there it goes.” Ok, enough of the good stuff because it really isn’t doing the movie any just. The movie looks pretty good, but all other execution is just piss poor and predictable.

Needless to say, Wolf Man is a super predictable werewolf movie with limited things worth watching. As far as remakes go, the filmmaker gave the viewer nothing to write home about. The cast tries hard, but “Dang it, Marty!” doesn’t really look like she could be a mom and is pretty annoying about keeping her family safe in this movie. Wolf Man is only worth watching on your local streaming service after you’ve almost run out of things to watch scrolling for a while. Grab a single popped kernel and don’t go in the forests of Oregon.