My problem with the new Wolfman
I already disliked the new Wolfman from the trailers. It looked cheap and even like it might rip off The Beast Within (a werewolf movie that came out about six months ago).
Warning: There are spoilers below.
The "surprise reveal" about the protagonist's father was no surprise at all. As soon as it was confirmed the father went missing I knew precisely what was to follow.
This was no Wolfman. It was closer to The Beast Within merged with the Jack Nicholson movie, Wolf.
The protagonist isn't even Lawrence Talbot. Much like Blum House's Invisible Man it has almost no connection to the original story except there's a werewolf just as with Invisible Man there was a man who became invisible- it was closer to Hollow Man merged with a Lifetime original movie, by the way. I know many loved it but it wasn't to my taste.
To me the biggest short coming of this Wolfman, besides the limited budget, is that they sucked all the magick from it. The werewolfism of The Wolf Man franchise always spread like a disease from scratch or bite or both, but this one took it too literally with the new annoying body horror of fingernails and teeth falling out, a trend that I find gross and annoying, but not scary.
He does become more beast-like but it has no connection to the full moon, nor does he become an actual wolf, and he obviously can't shift back into the form of a man.
They made it more like a debilitating virus. The romanticism is gone. The magick is gone. There's no warding off the werewolf or staving off the transformation with a pentacle. There's no fortune telling. There's no use of silver as a mystical protection.
They sucked the supernatural from it. It now feels more scifi, like a slightly re-written Cabin Fever. It looks more like an actual diseae. There's no Gothic ambiance.
There's something drab, dreary, and tired in the symbolism Blum House chooses for its monsters. They take away atmosphere, mystery, and charm, and replace it with unimaginative, modern, tropes of de-mystifying everything.
Can you tell I'm not a Blum House fan? The 2010 Wolfman was far superior and respectful remake of the 1941 classic. At least they had Rick Baker and a sense of atmosphere.
Universal, bring back the Gothic ambiance, the period settings, and above all else, let the supernatural be supernatural. Give us back the "only can be killed by silver" and warded off by pentacles, werewolves.
I already disliked the new Wolfman from the trailers. It looked cheap and even like it might rip off The Beast Within (a werewolf movie that came out about six months ago).
Warning: There are spoilers below.
The "surprise reveal" about the protagonist's father was no surprise at all. As soon as it was confirmed the father went missing I knew precisely what was to follow.
This was no Wolfman. It was closer to The Beast Within merged with the Jack Nicholson movie, Wolf.
The protagonist isn't even Lawrence Talbot. Much like Blum House's Invisible Man it has almost no connection to the original story except there's a werewolf just as with Invisible Man there was a man who became invisible- it was closer to Hollow Man merged with a Lifetime original movie, by the way. I know many loved it but it wasn't to my taste.
To me the biggest short coming of this Wolfman, besides the limited budget, is that they sucked all the magick from it. The werewolfism of The Wolf Man franchise always spread like a disease from scratch or bite or both, but this one took it too literally with the new annoying body horror of fingernails and teeth falling out, a trend that I find gross and annoying, but not scary.
He does become more beast-like but it has no connection to the full moon, nor does he become an actual wolf, and he obviously can't shift back into the form of a man.
They made it more like a debilitating virus. The romanticism is gone. The magick is gone. There's no warding off the werewolf or staving off the transformation with a pentacle. There's no fortune telling. There's no use of silver as a mystical protection.
They sucked the supernatural from it. It now feels more scifi, like a slightly re-written Cabin Fever. It looks more like an actual diseae. There's no Gothic ambiance.
There's something drab, dreary, and tired in the symbolism Blum House chooses for its monsters. They take away atmosphere, mystery, and charm, and replace it with unimaginative, modern, tropes of de-mystifying everything.
Can you tell I'm not a Blum House fan? The 2010 Wolfman was far superior and respectful remake of the 1941 classic. At least they had Rick Baker and a sense of atmosphere.
Universal, bring back the Gothic ambiance, the period settings, and above all else, let the supernatural be supernatural. Give us back the "only can be killed by silver" and warded off by pentacles, werewolves.