Review by shark-43

I had high hopes for this after enjoying the filmmaker's reboot of THE INVISIBLE MAN with Elisabeth Moss. But everything that was clever and exhilarating in that film, is tepid and cliched in WOLF MAN. This is the first thing I ever saw Christopher Abbott in where he was just okay - he is a terrific actor - so good in films like BLACK BEAR, JAMES WHITE, MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE, POOR THINGS, etc. And the talented Julia Garner seems miscast in her role. The opening is interesting but once Abbott brings his family back to his childhood home in the valley, it just is one cliche after another. Even the design of the Wolf Man underwhelms. Nope, sorry, much better off watching the original Lon Chaney Jr THE WOLF MAN or the 1980's THE HOWLING or AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON if you want your lupine fix.