Wolf Man Trailer Revives a Timeless Universal Monster with a Gruesome New Twist.

Even a man who is pure of heart, and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms, and the moon is full and bright. Or so says the poem in 1941’s “The Wolf Man,” the Universal classic that starred Lon Chaney Jr. as Lawrence Larry Talbot, an unlucky guy who gets bit by a werewolf and finds himself turning into a monster when the moon is full. It’s a moody, gothic movie that pretty much gave birth to werewolf tropes as we know them today (most of the stuff in the 1941 film was not based on classic werewolf folklore, but more or less invented for the movie).

“The Wolf Man” was remade in 2010 as “The Wolfman,” and while that film boasted some great practical makeup effects work from the legendary Rick Baker, it was a bit of a mess due to studio meddling, and the end result underperformed at the box office (the film also committed the mortal sin of nixing some of Baker’s practical makeup to use some terrible CGI). Now, Universal has teamed with Blumhouse and Leigh Whannell to bring the character back to the big screen with “Wolf Man,” a modern update to the classic. Christopher Abbott finds himself transforming into a monster, much to the horror of his family. Watch a new trailer for “Wolf Man” above.