Good morning readers! I recently watched The Wolf Man movie and I have thoughts. Kind of scratching my head. It’s always good to switch things up and take it down another path, like vampire movies, there’s always a grain of similarity. BUT let’s brew about it.
The 1941 movie of The Wolf Man, story is about a guy whom goes back to his home town because his brother was murdered. He then, gets attacked and becomes a werewolf. Pretty quick to the point there? I mean it’s the bread and butter there’s more to it than that but that’s the story at its core.
The way to, and you can correct me if I’m wrong, but in order to contract the werewolf gene is by being bitten by a werewolf., not coughed on, not maimed without a bite, or an air contagion and definitely not by drinking the blood of a werewolf ( but there’s a rabbit hole, not going to go further down that path).
I say all this to say The Wolf Man of 2025 has some different traits to the original movie made in 1941. It runs parallel in a way, but takes a detour almost immediately. I like that in the beginning it uses a native term which sets the tone that this kind of wolf is different kind of like in the movie, Blood and Chocolate, they didn’t necessarily go ferocious wolf monster but actually a wolf and isn’t contracted like a werewolf and is more inherited.
Either way, the movie had some jumps as well as a supernatural or higher self going on beyond the wolf man part. THAT’S as far as I go in spoiler alerts but I wish they pursued it more. I digress though, what are your thoughts? Did you grab some popcorn and nestled into a cozy theater chair? Are you going to? It isn’t a bad watch so, if you haven’t anything going on for your Friday night I’d say go check it out, see where your inner wolf takes you.
As Always Keep On Brewin!