NEW YORK, Jan. 17 (UPI) --Wolf Man writer-director Leigh Whannell says he wanted his modern re-imagining of the classic Universal Pictures monster to be simultaneously familiar and distinct. "I don't ...

This weekend marks the debut of director/writer Leigh Whannell’s second entry in rebooting Universal’s famed monsters, “Wolf Man.” Based on the 1941 feature starring Claude Rains and Lon Chaney, Jr., ...

This weekend, Universal Pictures' Wolf Man arrives in theaters, offering the latest reimagining of one of the studio's ...

There’s a shot in Wolf Man that’s so good, it’s used twice. A parent and child – first father and son, then mother and daughter – are hiding in a hunter’s deer blind in the damp Oregon woods, cowering ...

Since then, plenty of filmmakers have come up with their own otherworldly boogeymen — slashers, shapeshifting aliens, nun ghosts, killer dolls. Some of them even fit neatly into the Universal Monster ...

There’s nothing like a practical effect. CGI simply does not bring the viewer into the narrative in the same way that a physical transformation does. For example, we are obsessed with watching Walton ...