U niversal Pictures and Blumhouse are gearing up for their highly anticipated Wolf Man reboot.In the lead-up, director Leigh Whannell is also opening up about his approach to the film. The project ...

T he original Wolf Man hit theatres in 1941, becoming one of Universal’s earliest and most influential monster films to shape the golden age of horror.Unsurprisingly, as with most successes in ...

Corrections & Clarifications: “Wolf Man” director and co-writer Leigh Whannell's name was incorrect in an earlier version of this article. Pity the werewolf. I mean, duh. You get bitten or ...

The Wolf Man did, however, inspire two official Universal-released remakes, including a new one hitting theaters this week, as well as countless inventive knockoffs that riffed on werewolf lore.

The Wolf Man collects many aspects of pre-existing werewolf mythology, such as lycanthropy being a curse and an aversion to silver, that are now considered primary attributes of the werewolf.

‘The Wolf Man’ revolves around an everyman, Lawrence Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr.), who arrives at his father’s mansion in England after years of living in America.

‘The Wolf Man’: THR’s 1941 Review. On Dec. 10, 1941, The Hollywood Reporter appraised the latest of Universal’s monster films, finding much to like in the title but wary of audience reaction.

Curt Siodmak, the writer who created a classic monster in the 1941 movie "The Wolf Man" and helped to shape the horror and science fiction genre through his films and novels in the 1940s and '50s ...

The Wolfman, the 2010 horror remake of the original 1940’s film, has arrived on Blu-ray. While the original is considered a classic in the horror genre, the new reboot has gained bad press due to ...

Sure, the original The Wolf Man of 1941 canonized the pop culture image of werewolves by having the upright Lon Chaney Jr. be buried underneath yak hair and prosthetic teeth, but even 85 years ...

Granted, The Wolf Man isn’t a bad movie, and that principally accounts for Reed’s interest in the text. Here he thought he was going to watch some late-night schlock.