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The Wolf Man Twist Has Been Done Before — But Never This Well
The only thing scarier than turning into a werewolf is turning into your father.
Lon Chaney Jr. starred as Larry Talbot, who reconnects with his estranged father (Claude Rains) when he returns home to Wales to bury his brother, the favored child. As in his 2020 The Invisible Man, director and co-writer Leigh Whannell gives the title character a brand-new origin story, with a greater emphasis on the themes that have helped make these Universal monsters so resonant over the decades. Ultimately, Wolf Man is more successful at driving this theme home, in large part because The Wolfman merely stumbles into it, more motivated by the thrill of having Hopkins play a bad guy than by an interest in exploring something deeper.
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