HOLLYWOOD MOVIE.
Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt
Direction: Joe Johnston .
Direction: Joe Johnston .
Johnston’s Wolfman is a remake of George Waggner’s iconic horror classic The Wolf Man (1941).
The year is 1891. Lawrence Tablot (Benicio Del Toro) works as an actor in America. The sudden unnatural death of his brother brings him back to his ancestral estate of Blackmoor, England. His palatial house is now occupied by his father (Anthony Hopkins) and his dead brother’s fiancée Gwen (Emily Blunt). Hellbent on finding the killer of his brother, Lawrence reaches a gypsy camp where he gets bitten by a ferocious werewolf. From there on, Lawrence discovers at the time of full moon he too will be transformed into a werewolf... a curse he cannot dispel.
When you have a combination of Oscar winning actors Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins, both known for their portrayal of dark characters playing the leads in a film, half the work is done. As a father-son duo who shares cold vibes and a mysterious aloofness from each other, the actors successfully portray their estranged relationship. Anthony Hopkins brings in the much needed supernatural appeal to the film through his intense performance.
It’s not the story but the execution that makes this film stand out. The Victorian England is shown beautifully, in fact in a much better way than what we saw in Guy Ritchie’s Robert Downey Jr starrer Sherlock Holmes recently. The huge haunting castles, mystifying candles... fear of the unknown is build up superbly well. The blazing sound effects and background score adds to the eerie feeling.
Action scenes too are shot well which are good enough to evoke those much needed screams in blood and gore horror films.
The love story of Emily Blunt and Benicio Del Toro too is heart-warming and in fact much better than those dozen of romantic tales you see in the week’s other release ‘Valentine’s Day’. The make-up of all the characters is done well too.
The film’s only drawback is the lack of novelty in terms of concept and the fluctuation in pace. The first half keeps you on the edge of your seat while the later half goes slow making you feel a bit laid-back and restless about the film’s brutal climax and killings.
If you love horror as a genre, this might be your perfect date movie for Valentine’s Day! In spite of having seen many such man-to-beast transformation films, Wolfman is still convincing and worth a watch.
The year is 1891. Lawrence Tablot (Benicio Del Toro) works as an actor in America. The sudden unnatural death of his brother brings him back to his ancestral estate of Blackmoor, England. His palatial house is now occupied by his father (Anthony Hopkins) and his dead brother’s fiancée Gwen (Emily Blunt). Hellbent on finding the killer of his brother, Lawrence reaches a gypsy camp where he gets bitten by a ferocious werewolf. From there on, Lawrence discovers at the time of full moon he too will be transformed into a werewolf... a curse he cannot dispel.
When you have a combination of Oscar winning actors Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins, both known for their portrayal of dark characters playing the leads in a film, half the work is done. As a father-son duo who shares cold vibes and a mysterious aloofness from each other, the actors successfully portray their estranged relationship. Anthony Hopkins brings in the much needed supernatural appeal to the film through his intense performance.
It’s not the story but the execution that makes this film stand out. The Victorian England is shown beautifully, in fact in a much better way than what we saw in Guy Ritchie’s Robert Downey Jr starrer Sherlock Holmes recently. The huge haunting castles, mystifying candles... fear of the unknown is build up superbly well. The blazing sound effects and background score adds to the eerie feeling.
Action scenes too are shot well which are good enough to evoke those much needed screams in blood and gore horror films.
The love story of Emily Blunt and Benicio Del Toro too is heart-warming and in fact much better than those dozen of romantic tales you see in the week’s other release ‘Valentine’s Day’. The make-up of all the characters is done well too.
The film’s only drawback is the lack of novelty in terms of concept and the fluctuation in pace. The first half keeps you on the edge of your seat while the later half goes slow making you feel a bit laid-back and restless about the film’s brutal climax and killings.
If you love horror as a genre, this might be your perfect date movie for Valentine’s Day! In spite of having seen many such man-to-beast transformation films, Wolfman is still convincing and worth a watch.
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