Wolf Man | Featurette: Leigh Whannell - The New Era Of Terror - video Dailymotion

A man must protect himself and his family when they are being stalked, terrorised and haunted by a deadly werewolf at night during a full moon.

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00:00Daddy, are we gonna die?

00:04No. It's my job to protect you.

00:07Cut. Very nice.

00:11When I was trying to come up with a new angle for the Wolfman story,

00:14I thought about werewolf movies,

00:16and I knew I wanted to give audiences something new to experience.

00:22A Wolfman story is about infection and transformation.

00:26So, after the last few years of turmoil that the world has been in,

00:30the themes of isolation and dread and anxiety

00:34were naturally coming out in the script.

00:36Hello?

00:38We were attacked by some kind of animal,

00:41and I think my husband was infected by it.

00:47What's wrong with Daddy?

00:50This film is my tribute to the 80s movies I loved growing up.

00:54Daddy?

00:58Movies like John Carpenter's The Thing,

01:00David Cronenberg's The Fly.

01:02What is happening to me?

01:05The world in which Lee sort of grounded this story in itself stands apart.

01:09Can you understand me?

01:14I can't hear you.

01:17You're scaring me.

01:21He has such an atmosphere in his directing.

01:23Seeing this thing come running in is what will scare the audience.

01:26He has a really keen eye for cinematography and sound.

01:33I just wanted it to be an oral assault.

01:37Run!

01:38I wanted to lean into something horrific, something visceral.

01:42You can really dig deep into someone's subconscious with a horror film,

01:46and I think we do that with this movie.

01:49Please, Daddy, it's me.

01:52That's the way it needs to be done.

01:56Daddy, is that you?