The writer-director was partially inspired by a close friend who died of ALS, but ultimatley lost a scene involving the affliction: "That's definitely one that hurt when I took it out."

I was so happy with Invisible Man’s ending that I just don’t feel the artistic need to go forward with it,” he tells THR. “The financial need is something different. The studio might look at that and say,

"Wolf Man" has moments of suspense and psychological tension but leans too heavily on jump scares and a weak story, says film critic Peter Travers.

Leigh Whannell's new "Wolf Man" film stars Christopher Abbott and Julia Garner, and it's filled with twists and turns.

Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man boasts some impressive filmmaking and fresh spins on werewolf lore, but its story lacks bite.

Leigh Whannell follows ‘The Invisible Man’ with another update on a classic from the Universal archives, unfolding in an isolated farmhouse in the Pacific Northwest.

Wolf Man” — 1.5 stars Leigh Whannell’s sometimes ridiculous, suspense-challenged and emotionally muted horror tale “Wolf Man” tosses out all the traditional conventions we expect in

The actor admits the prosthetics took their toll, even though they helped him get into the right headspace for the character: "you feel like you're trapped a little bit, so it's a mental marathon as well.

For better, there's been 2020's The Invisible Man, in which writer/director Leigh Whannell left his supernatural leanings from the Insidious franchise behind for a more sci-fi-rooted horror. His Wolf Man has a similarly grim and grounded approach,

"Wolf Man" writer-director Leigh Whannell told UPI he wanted his modern re-imagining of the classic Universal Pictures monster to be simultaneously familiar and distinct.

EJ Moreno reviews Leigh Whannel’s Wolf Man… Stuck between a virus horror film and a classic werewolf tale, Wolf Man is neither and nothing. It’s ‘been there, done that’ even when it thinks it’s doing something new.