The Wolfman 2025 Movie Review
The Wolfman 2025 Movie Review
Now, you all already know, I don’t do scary movies anymore. There was a time when I would have been all over this but that time has been long gone for me. So naturally I had no interest in seeing this but I ended up watching it by default because the timing was right and we wanted to watch something. However, I was surprised that I ended up enjoying it. I consider it more of a thriller than horror. Nevertheless, it had me at the edge of my seat. The acting was well done. Christopher Abbott (I don’t know who this man is) did a phenomenal job. Julian Garner was solid as well and the little girl, Matilda Firth, did a good job portraying a scared confused daughter.
It was just creepy enough and thrilling enough to keep me engaged. The pacing was just right as well. They let you find a false sense of security right before having you jump out of your seat. I also enjoyed how they let us see things from the wolfman’s perspective which was interesting and different and contributed to the viewer feeling closer to what was happening on screen.
I give it a sold 7/10
Spoilers
The movie starts with a young Blake and his father hunting in the forest not too far from their home. His father, who has some knowledge of the beast, gets a glimpse of it while trying to keep Blake safe. They finally get home, and Blake overhears his father vowing to kill the beast to a friend over a ham radio.
Fast forward to years later and Blake is a full adult with a child of his own. He is a struggling writer, in between jobs, staying home with his daughter. His wife is also a journalist who works as an editor and is always working which appears to be a point of contention with Blake. They are struggling relationship-wise when he gets word that his father has passed away. Blake suggests to Charlotte that they take some time to go back to his childhood home to reconnect while he settles his father’s affairs. She reluctantly agrees and they head off to this remote place.
While traveling there, Blake gets lost and ends up at his neighbor's driveway instead of his own. He meets his childhood friend who he obviously did not keep in touch with because he is a little weird and a little cold. He gets in the car with the family to show Blake the way to his house all the while being creepy and mean to Charlotte. On the way to the house, Blake sees someone or something on the road and swerves to avoid hitting him. That’s when things really start to pop off. They get into a really bad wreck and the truck is precariously hanging over a ledge. Derrick, the neighbor, falls out of the truck and looks badly hurt pretty. Then the beast comes for them. He attacks the trunk trying to get at Charlotte, Ginger, and Blake. He is seen attacking Derrick and dragging him away. While Blake is trying to protect his family, he gets cut up by what looks like glass.
They, Charlotte, Blak,e and Ginger, find his house and make their way there while running away from the beast. In the house, Blake is working on securing it so the beast doesn’t get in. He starts to hear things, and his teeth start falling out and he starts looking quite sickly. They realize that he has been hurt and his wife says that the scratch is not from glass. The beast, through what looks like a pet opening, attacks Blake again and Charlotte fends him off with a hammer. As things move along, Blake is getting worse. They keep trying to fight off the beast and Charlotte realizes that Blake is infected by it and is possibly turning into one himself. At one point, Blace attempts to gnaw his arm off. He is trying to fight the urge to attach his own family, losing body functions, can no longer speak, and is having increasing difficulty understanding them.
Eventually, he ends up facing the beast and killing it while still having some humanity left in him. He realizes that although they finally declared his father dead after he had gone missing for a long time, the beast he just killed was actually his father. At some point, he runs away from his family so he doesn’t eventually hurt them. Unfortunately, he fully becomes a wolfman himself and returns to the house to fully target Charlotte and Ginger. They escape into the woods and the story comes full circle to where it began with him and his father. There is a moment right before Charlotte shoots him that notices how much anguish he is actually in but to protect herself and their daughter she puts him out of his misery.
There are a few things I appreciated about this film. While Blake the infection was taking its toll on Blake and he was turning into the beast, there were moments when the audience got to experience his perspective. We got to see how his vision was changing, how he saw his family, and also how his communication impairment affected him. The other aspect was a touch of unnecessary gruesomeness that was very good for the story because the audience was able to understand that this man was departing from his humanity. At one point he was caught by a bear trap and as hinted earlier on in the movie when Blake was gnawing at his arm, once he was fully the wolfman, he gnawed at his leg until his foot was completely severed from his body so he can continue on his pursuit of Charlotte and Ginger. That was so disturbing but at the same time drove home the point of him no longer being human. The last aspect was the idea of protecting one's family and how far could a person push themselves to do so in the case of Charlotte, or how much can a person withstand to be the protector in the case of Blake.
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