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One of January ’s most eagerly anticipated moving-picture show isWolf Man , a contemporary retelling of the classic werewolf story direct by Leigh Whannell and produced by Blumhouse . In this version , the nominal lycan is category humans Blake ( Christopher Abbott ) who aim his wife and young daughter to his secluded cabin in the woods to unstrain . Yet what they all find instead is terror after Blake is bitten by a rabid wolf and start to transform into something not quite human .
Now thatWolf Manis playing in theaters , there ’s a decent chance you ’re in the mood for similar tales of supernatural creatures and otherworldly transmutation . Do n’t fret as the following three movies are guaranteed to bear you under their spell for a twain of hours .
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The Invisible Man (2020)
Wolf Manwouldn’t exist withoutThe Invisible Man , as that film was a big striking in 2020 before COVID break everything . Also direct by Whannell , this loop takes the concept of the classic H.G. Welles chronicle and update it to give it a foul , topical # MeToo spin .
Cecilia Kass ( Elisabeth Moss ) is stuck in an abusive family relationship with affluent tech bro Adrian Griffin ( Oliver Jackson - Cohen ) . When he place self-annihilation , she thinks she ’s finally innocent of him … until some unknown matter come about to her that cause her to conceive he ’s stalking her with a high - technical school case that makes him invisible .
Yeah , that sounds ridiculous , and that ’s why no one conceive Cecilia , including her own babe . But as Adrian begins to threaten her friends and phratry , Cecilia realize she ’s the only one who can stop him . boast win over limited core and a attached Pb performance by Moss , The Invisible Manis one of the most inventive revulsion remakes ever . It shifts the perspective from the unseeable Man to one of his victims , and fully captures the horror of being menaced by someone you ca n’t see .
The Invisible Manis streaming for free onAmazon Prime Video .
Wolf (1994)
There has to be at least one wolfman movie on this list , and my favorite of the subgenre has always beenWolf , a 1994 movie that is n’t as fondly retrieve as it should be . LikeInvisible Man , it use its repugnance furnishing as a metaphor for something we all feel ; in Wolf ’s case , it ’s the cutthroat world of interoffice politics , which is scarier than any lycanthrope you could potentially add up across one benighted dark in the woods .
Jack Nicholsonis Will Randle , an editor - in - chief at a New York publication house who , after a late merger , is on his way out . One night , he gets bitten by a savage and finds himself gradually transfer into a , you guessed it , wolf . His eyesight improves , his sexual appetite return with a retribution , he stand up to a immature challenger ( James Spader ) eager to take his space , and he flirts with a misanthropical inheritress ( Michelle Pfeiffer ) who is sympathetic to Will ’s transformation .
But Will ’s recent gift is also a curse , and as the constabulary begin to find masticate - up physical structure component part in Central Park , Will realizes he has to stop his transformation at all costs , even if that include his own life . Directed by Mike Nichols , Wolfis the classiest horror movie ever made , with crisp visuals , a nervous score by the fabled Ennio Morricone , and some great interpersonal chemistry between co - stars Nicholson and Pfeiffer .
Wolfis cyclosis onPhiloand can be hire and purchased at major digital seller .
Martin (1977)
This one ’s a bit of a stint , but pick up me out . In this 1977 cult classic , twentysomething Martin ( John Amplas ) believe himself to be a lamia . He surely acts like one , and on a train ride from Indianapolis to Pittsburgh , he drains the rip of a vernal woman . He does n’t have sharp teeth , though , so he uses syrinx to extract the blood and drink it .
As Martin settles in Pittsburgh , he arouses the suspicions of his class , especially Tata Cuda ( Lincoln Maazel ) , an older full cousin who take Martin ’s vampiric leaning very seriously . Martin eventually becomes attracted to an aged woman , Abbie ( Elaine Nadeau ) , and it ’s his foreign family relationship with her that prompts him to see out more victims , and may just be his undoing .
take byNight of the Living Deadauteur George A. Romero , Martinisn’t as graphic as the manager ’s later on zombie moving picture , but it ’s more unsettling and weird . You never know if Martin is really a vampire or not , but Romero make you sympathize with him , even though he does really horrible things onscreen . It ’s an idealistic associate toWolf Man , which also depicts a military man undergo a strange transformation that acts as a metaphor for his latent aggression toward his kinfolk .
Martinis streaming for free onTubi .
