Leigh Whannell follows ‘The Invisible Man’ with another update on a classic from the Universal archives, unfolding in an isolated farmhouse in the Pacific Northwest.

And now Whannell is back with another standalone revival of a classic Universal Monster in Wolf Man. At one stage, it had Ryan Gosling starring and Derek Cianfrance directing, but it now arrives in cinemas with Whannell at the helm and Christopher Abbott in the lead role.

Fans of “SCTV” may remember a “Monster Chiller Horror Theatre” episode in which Joe Flaherty’s late-night host, Count Floyd, mistakenly programs a made-up Ingmar Bergman film, “Whispers of the Wolf,” thinking it’s a simple werewolf picture instead of a moody,

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