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Wolf Man Is Half a Movie
Leigh Whannell’s new horror film has some good scares, but it strands its characters in the murk.
“It’s the easiest thing in the world.” Such fears, we quickly learn in the movie’s prologue, have turned the father into an authoritarian shell of a man, an intense and domineering survivalist who insists on military-style discipline from his son. But the film doesn’t really develop these ideas any further: One deadly swerve off the main road and the genre theatrics take over as Blake and his family are pursued by a barely glimpsed creature that sometimes seems like a woodland animal, sometimes a man. A veteran of the horror genre with some important films to his name (he wrote the Saw and Insidious movies and directed 2020’s The Invisible Man), Whannell knows how to put together a suspense set piece, and he delivers several creative ones here, making effective use of the textures and material of rural life.
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