The Wolf Man writer and director Leigh Whannell recently announced his next Universal horror film Monster and shared some insights into how he was influenced by the director Denis Villeneuve’S Prisoners AND Hitman.
Speaking to SFX Magazine, Whannell said: “I’m a huge fan of gothic horror films. I love what Tim Burton did with Sleepy Hollow, and I love what Guillermo del Toro does. There’s such beauty in those gothic elements, like fog.” and cemeteries on a moonlit hill.
“From a production design perspective, I love all those things, but I think I love them more as a viewer. I’m the person to watch those things, but I’m not the right person to make them happen.
“When the time comes to create a monster, my mind immediately wants to place it in the real world and take a very concrete approach: we’re not dealing with a fairy tale here, we’re not dealing with a people’s tale, we’re dealing with something that could actually happen.”
I’ve always liked the fantasy elements of universal monster horror movies, but Whannell is obviously trying to do something else and bring a real kind of fear to the story.
Christopher Abbott (Poor things, it arrives at night) plays Blake, a husband and father from San Francisco, “who inherits his remote childhood home in rural Oregon after his father disappears and is presumed dead.
“With his marriage to his powerful wife, Charlotte (Giulia Garner; Ozark, Inventing Anna), worn out, Blake convinces 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 farm in the dead of night, they are attacked by an unseen animal and, in a desperate escape, they barricade themselves inside the house as the creature prowls the perimeter.
“As the night wears on, however, Blake begins to act strangely, transforming into something unrecognizable, and Charlotte will be forced to decide whether the terror inside their home is deadlier than the danger outside.”
The Wolf Man will be released in January 2025.
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
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