Leigh Whannell’s New Zealand-shot Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as Blake, a San Francisco husband and father, who inherits his remote childhood home in rural Oregon after his father vanishes and is presumed dead. With his marriage to his high-powered wife, Charlotte (Julia Garner), fraying, Blake persuades her to take a break from the city and visit the property with their young daughter, Ginger (Matilda Firth).
But as the family approaches the farmhouse in the dead of night, they’re attacked by an unseen animal and, in a desperate escape, barricade themselves inside the home as the creature prowls the perimeter. As the night stretches on, however, Blake begins to behave strangely, transforming into something unrecognizable, and Charlotte will be forced to decide whether the terror within their house is more lethal than the danger without.
The film co-stars Sam Jaeger, Ben Prendergast and Benedict Hardie, with newcomer Zac Chandler, Beatriz Romilly and Milo Cawthorne.
Written by Whannell and Corbett Tuck, Wolf Man is Blumhouse founder and CEO Jason Blum and Ryan Gosling, with Whannell executive producing with Beatriz Sequeira, Mel Turner and Ken Kao.
The film is a Gosling/Waypoint Entertainment production, in association with Cloak & Co, and will be distributed via Universal.
Wolf Man will be released in cinemas January 16.