Christopher Abbott transforms right into a monster in ‘Wolf Man’ trailer

Christopher Abbott is terrorized by — and transforms into! — a lethal creature of the evening within the trailer for Wolf Man, a reboot of the basic 1941 monster story with The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell now on the helm.

A brand new trailer launched Friday introduces Abbott as Blake, a San Francisco-based husband and father who inherits his distant Oregon childhood house after his personal father vanishes and is presumed useless. In an try to fix a wedding on the rocks, he persuades his high-powered spouse, Charlotte (performed by Julia Garner), to take a break from the town and pay a go to to the house with their daughter Ginger (Matilda Firth).

When the household arrives on the house in the dark, an unseen animal assaults. The partitions of the house are their protected haven because the creature prowls the perimeter. However as “the evening stretches on,” the synopsis reads, the patriarch “begins to behave surprisingly, reworking into one thing unrecognizable” — and it is as much as spouse Charlotte to resolve whether or not “the phobia inside their home is extra deadly than the hazard with out.”

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Sam Jaeger, Ben Prendergast, and Benedict Hardie spherical out the forged of the movie, produced by Blumhouse’s Jason Blum and govt produced by Whannell, Ryan Gosling (who was initially connected to star however needed to drop out), Ken Kao, and Bea Sequeira.

Wolf Man marks an onscreen reunion between leads Abbott and Garner, who beforehand starred collectively on Sean Durkin’s 2011 thriller Martha Marcy Might Marlene. Abbott’s current credit embody the indie It Does not Matter, Oscar-winning horror comedy Poor Issues, and psychological thriller miniseries The Crowded Room. Garner is recent off activates drama collection Ozark and miniseries Inventing Anna, and movie The Royal Resort.

Above, watch the hair-raising trailer for Wolf Man, huffing and puffing its method into theaters on Jan. 17, 2025.