The Wolfman 2010
The Wofman 2010 In some ways Joe Johnston’s The Wolfman didn’t have to do all that much to improve on its source material. The original 1941 film was a classic cheapie horror flick, full of stilted dialogue and hammy actors and, yes, a few revolutionary effects shots that are remembered to this day. But with more time to develop character, better technology to play with and a whole lot more money, Johnston had the opportunity to expand on some of the rich psychological territory of the original Wolf Man, and make it look glossier in the process.
But, of course, he didn’t do any of that. Behaving like a kid with a giant effects budget and no idea how to use it, Johnston gives us The Wolfman as a rambling, pseudo-Freudian house of horrors, with lots of things to jump out of us and look creepy but virtually nothing that’s truly scary.
Featuring a bewildering performance from Benicio del Toro, who appears to be faking his American accent, and Anthony Hopkins swanning around a dilapidated mansion in tiger skins, The Wolfman is a strange but ultimately boring mess.
Jumping off from the same basic starting point as the original film, The Wolfman finds del Toro as Lawrence Talbot, the prodigal son of a wealthy family who returns home when his brother Ben is found dead, attacked by a strange beast. Dad (Hopkins) seems not all that interested in his living son, and indeed treated him pretty miserably as demonstrated in childhood flashbacks, but Ben’s fiancee Gwen (Emily Blunt) supports Lawrence’s mission to figure out what happened to his brother.
The hunt leads to a gypsy camp that is attacked late at night by a similar seeming strange beast; Lawrence is bitten in the ensuing struggle, and before you know it, he’s starting to feel a little odd come the full moon.
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