The secret to making a great wolf man movie -- and you gotta pinky swear not to tell anybody about this, because it's a secret -- is that the "wolf man" part is optional. Werewolf stories aren't about transforming into half-human/half-canine hybrids as much as they're about people wrestling with their darkest impulses.

Director Leigh Whannell makes horror films for grown-ups. Unlike his “Invisible Man” remake, though, this one is a bit of a slog.

Director Leigh Whannell has established himself as a safe pair of hands for genre filmmaking and Universal and Blumhouse’s Wolf Man has proven itself the perfect new horror project for him to sink his teeth into.