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Wolf Man is a disappointing reboot of the 1941 lycanthrope horror The Wolfman starring Lon Chaney Jr, struggling to build momentum despite a promising prologue. After an estranged father leaves his Or…
Australian director Leigh Whannell has taken two of Universal’s classic monsters and put his own spin on them. First, he updated the tale of The Invisible Man in 2020, and this year he takes on the ly…
A good jump scare is like a cheap cheeseburger: the hungrier you are, the better it is. That’s true of the scares in Insidious: The Red Door. However, the fifth entry in this ongoing series is more th…
The overwhelming sound of angry waves crashing against a rocky shoreline opens Australian director Leigh Whannell’s adaptation of H. G. Wells beloved sci-fi novel The Invisible Man. The sheer thud, b…
With Leigh Whannel’s The Invisible Man due in 2020, and with Paul Feig’s monster mash film, as well as whatever Dexter Fletcher is doing with, of all characters, Renfield, it appears that Universal st…
Leigh Whannell is a filmmaker who is steeped in the genres of cinema. The Saw series carved a way through the horror genre, helping forge a subgenre of gorno films (or, torture porn) that changed the…