The 'Invisible Man' writer-director talks about tackling another Universal horror icon for a horror movie reflecting the anxieties of COVID.

Wolf Man is the latest Universal Monster to get a modern treatment, but the film falls short of its renowned predecessor.

After a preview screening of Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man, a re-imagining of the classic werewolf monster, critics have started posting early reactions (though not full reviews). Peter Grey ...

It’s also another clever Universal Monster update from filmmaker Leigh Whannell (and Corbett Tuck, his co-writer and wife) after he saw through The Invisible Man and focused on his victim.

By Esther Zuckerman Shortly after the director Leigh Whannell’s 2020 take on “The Invisible Man” became a box office success, he got a call from Universal asking if he would like to tackle ...

For the entirety of Leigh Whannell's screenwriting career, the horror veteran has shown the gift of being able to make audiences cower in terror inside a darkened ...

It’s been an agonizing five-year wait for Leigh Whannell’s follow-up to his near-universally acclaimed The Invisible Man. As the pandemic became more and more prolonged, Whannell and his co ...

Leigh Whannell’s sometimes ridiculous, suspense-challenged and emotionally muted horror tale “Wolf Man” tosses out all the traditional conventions we expect in the werewolf genre.

Wolf Man—director Leigh Whannell’s reboot of Universal Pictures’ werewolf tale starring Jennifer Garner and Christopher Abbott—is new in theaters this weekend. How are critics receiving ...

It’s so close, in fact, that the steam from its breath wafts up over the top. Director Leigh Whannell frames the shot like a landscape, with the door as the horizon. The image is eerie and ...

Directed by Leigh Whannell, the low-budget thriller was so successful that Universal rushed to adapt other titles from its classic monsters catalog, imagining a “Dark Universe” series that ...