Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
With his marriage fraying, Blake persuades his wife Charlotte to take a break from the city and visit his remote childhood home in rural Oregon. As they arrive at the farmhouse in the dead of night, they're attacked by an unseen animal and barricade themselves inside the home as the creature prowls the perimeter. But as the night stretches on, Blake begins to behave strangely, transforming into something unrecognizable.
The 2025 Wolf Man remake struggles with a thin, predictable plot that leans heavily on familiar werewolf/body horror tropes without adding meaningful depth to the marital drama angle it attempts. The acting is serviceable — Julia Garner brings some emotional credibility to Charlotte — but character development is too sparse to elevate performances. Cinematography is competent with some effective nighttime atmosphere in the Oregon farmhouse setting, though it rarely distinguishes itself visually. As a remake of a classic Universal monster property with generic horror beats, its Novelty is low — the body horror approach offers a slight contemporary twist but the execution feels derivative. The ending underwhelms, failing to deliver on the emotional or horrific payoff the premise hints at, leaving the film feeling incomplete and unsatisfying.