A 'Wolfman,' With Nary A Vampire To Fight
Luna Tics: For Benicio Del Toro's Lawrence Talbot, things get hairy when the moon is full.
The Wolfman
- Director: Joe Johnston
- Genre: Horror
- Running Time: 103 minutes
With: Benicio Del Toro, Emily Blunt and Anthony Hopkins
Think werewolves are sweet and sexy? Think again, gentle Twilight fan — The Wolfman wants to rip your throat out.
Unfortunately, brutality is about all this update of 1941's The Wolf Man can do well. Mutilations, decapitations and disembowelments are handled with aplomb in the first R-rated film from director Joe Johnston (Jumanji, Jurassic Park III). But everything that doesn't involve gore feels like an afterthought.
The story's setup hasn't changed much: Late-Victorian-age actor Lawrence Talbot (the always feral Benicio Del Toro) returns home after receiving word that his brother has vanished. His sibling's body is soon found, and its mangled condition prompts a lot of theories — all of them nutty, although one happens to be true.
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