For this year’s 31 Nights of Horror Challenge, the Day 20 prompt is Werewolves. We watched the movie, The Wolfman on Amazon Prime.

Storyline

Lawrence Talbot’s (Benicio Del Toro’s) childhood ended the night his mother died. His father sent him from the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor to an insane asylum, then he went to America. When his brother Ben’s (Simon Merrells’) fiancée Gwen Conliffe (Emily Blunt), tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns to his father’s estate to learn that his brother’s mauled body has been found. Reunited with his estranged father Sir John Talbot (Sir Anthony Hopkins), Lawrence sets out to find his brother’s killer, and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself. Someone or something with brute strength and insatiable blood lust has been killing the villagers, and a suspicious Scotland Yard Inspector named Aberline (Hugo Weaving) comes to investigate.

Out Thoughts on The Wolfman (2010) 

This was a SLOW burn. While the make-up was great, the story was lacking. It was just too slow for me and not a fun watch. I get it, there are many people that love the remakes of the Classic Monster movies, I am jus not one of them. 

4 out of 10 

Trivia 

The bear owned by the gypsies was actually recycled animation from The Golden Compass (2007). The Polar Bear was changed into a Grizzly for this movie.

Producer and star Benicio Del Toro is a huge fan of The Wolf Man (1941), and remained attached to the remake ever since it was first announced in 2006, and passed through the hands of several directors.

The inscription in stone at the beginning of this movie, “Even a man who is pure of heart and says his prayers by night may become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright”, was taken from The Wolf Man (1941). However, the original did say “wolfbane” rather than “wolfsbane”.