Wolf Man
Warning : This article contains SPOILERS for Wolf Man ( 2025 )
AlthoughWolf Man ’s version of werewolvesare different from most motion picture incarnation of the iconic monsters , the Blumhouse revulsion still strike many of the beats viewers predict from a retelling of Universal ’s iconic 1941 movieThe Wolf Man . Blake is attacked by a mystic ogre after crashing his car , he gradually transforms into an inhuman teras and , inWolf Man ’s ending , his married woman and daughter put him out of his wretchedness soon after he becomes a wolfman . The story might be familiar , but the journey is filled with Easter egg for horror sports fan .
10Ginger Snaps
Blake’s Daughter Gets Her Name From A Famous Werewolf
The first ofWolf Man ’s many horror pic Easter eggs comes in the name of Blake ’s daughter . Ginger is named after the main character of 2000 ’s unconventional lycanthrope movieGinger Snaps . An inventive merger of blackly comic werewolf horror and come - of - age dramedy , Ginger Snapsuses lycanthropy as a viewpoint - in for the riskiness of puberty . However , viewers expect a playful tomboy like 1985’sTeen Wolfshould take care elsewhere .
Ginger Snapsis as blooming and brute asWolf Man , and Katharine Isabelle is both tragic and terrifying as the title character . A adolescent girl who develops a thirstiness for human blood after an encounter with a werewolf , Ginger remains movingly human even as her wild side takes over . As such , Wolf Mannaming Blake ’s daughter after the tragical heroine ofGinger Snapsis a fitting tributeto this still - underrated religious cult classic .
9The Shining
Wolf Man’s Early Road Trip Borrows The Shining’s Famous Overhead Shot
One of the most obvious Easter eggs inWolf Manarrives when the Lovell kin travel to Blake ’s childhood home . Their car is seen snaking through the wooded sight roads in an overhead shooting that calls to mind the opening conniption of Stanley Kubrick ’s Stephen King adaptationThe Shining . A overplus of moving picture have since copy this aery shot , among themMidsommar , Us , Bats , Fallen , Dead End , Silent Hill , Sometimes They descend Back , The Descent , 2024’sSpeaks No Evilremake , The Haunting , Green Room , 2016’sCabin Feverremake , and many , many more .
This figure of speech even earned a video tribute fromYouTubecreatorWhere Have I Seen This , entitled " Foreboding Overhead Shots of machine drive On Long Roads In Horror Movies , " back in 2020 . However , as over - intimate as this particular reference might have become , Wolf Man ’s reference toThe Shiningmakes thematic sensein a way many other horror movies fail to . Like the characters ofThe Shining , the household inWolf Manis heading toward an meeting with the father ’s dark family past times . Like Kubrick ’s eccentric , they are also on track for a journeying that will come to destroy the family ’s father and end with him dying while attempt to attack his married woman and youngster .
8Silver Bullet
This Stephen King Adaptation Sees A Werewolf Run The Hero Off The Road
On the matter ofThe polishing , Wolf Manfeatures an other nod to a largely forgotten Stephen King werewolf story . 1984’sSilver Bulletfollows Marty , a young paraplegic boy , as he attempts to discover the human identity of a local werewolf responsible for numerous murder . When he does , Marty is trap in a wash against time to expose the lycanthrope before he becomes his next victim .
BothWolf ManandSilver Bulletfeature scene where a werewolf runs the zep off the road . The difference is that the wolfman ’s human ego is beat back toward Marty inSilver Bullet , whereas the werewolf ’s tool form jumps out in front of the car inWolf Man . Marty also escapes his aggressor , while Blake crashes his car .
7The Monster (2016)
Wolf Man’s Tense Car Crash Sequence Borrows From This Underrated Horror
Perhaps the most expressed adopt inWolf Mancomes immediately after the wolfman causes the Lovell family ’s car crash.2016’sThe MonsterandWolf Manboth sport a sequence of characters hanging suspended in a flipped car as a giant lurks below them on the roadside , although this lasts a lot longer in director Bryan Bertino ’s 2016 repugnance movie . The Monsteris an underrated A24 repugnance whose simple setup belies a astonishingly gripping , intense story andWolf Man ’s scarey car crash sceneowes the movie a originative debt for this imaginative scare .
6Dog Soldiers
This British Horror Movie Trapped Its Heroes In An Empty Farmhouse
2002’sDog SoldierswasThe Descentdirector Neil Marshall ’s first major decisive hit , and the British indie horror remains fondly remembered . LikeWolf Man , Dog Soldiersalso concentre on a group of characters holing up in an empty farmhouse as wolfman essay to break inside . Like Whannel ’s movie , Dog Soldiersalso eventually reveal that the werewolves are secretly related to each other . However , this twist is a mickle more touching inWolf Man ’s plot .
5Predator
Wolf Man’s Wolf Vision Sequences Recall The Seminal Sci-Fi Horror
One of the sad elements ofWolf Man ’s tarradiddle is ascertain Blake slowly mislay liaison with his humanity as he becomes the titular threat . This is achieved via some trippy scenes where Blake loses the power to understand human language and becomes able to get word noises far more clearly , perceiving a wanderer ’s footsteps as meretricious drumming . As he transform , Blake ’s vision becomes more warmth - based , much like the eponymous villain of 1987 ’s Greco-Roman sci - fi horrorPredator .
4The Wolf Man (1941)
Larry Talbot’s Name Is Mentioned Among Grady’s Notes
AlthoughWolf Man ’s director Leigh Whannel madeThe Invisible Mana few years before this reboot , the motion-picture show resists the urge to connect the two Dark Universe installing in - creation . However , one of the most explicit outcry - out to the Wolf Man ’s protracted screen history is hide early in the moving picture ’s chronicle . Among the government note that Blake ’s father has made on the lycanthropy - corresponding disease he is investigate , viewers can discern the name of a overleap camper .
The missing hiker has the same name as the submarine sandwich of both 1941’sThe Wolf Manand the worldwide goliath pic ’s 2010 remaking .
This camper is named “ Larry Talbot , ” a.k.a Lawrence Talbot . The missing tramp has the same name as the hero of both 1941’sThe Wolf Manand the Universal monster moving picture ’s 2010 remake . That Benicia Del Toro fomite may not have succeed in recouping its tidy budget at the box office , but its big plot of ground twist does get a outcry - out inWolf Man .
3The Wolfman (2010)
Wolf Man’s Big Twist Borrows From The 2010 Remake
Both 2010’sThe Wolf Manand 2025’sWolf Manreveal that the agonist ’s father is the original werewolf , although the handling of this twist is markedly unlike in the two iterations of the narrative . In 2010’sThe Wolf Man , a hammy Anthony Hopkins plays Talbot ’s father as an outright roughshod , vindictive villain . In 2025’sWolf Man , the realization that Blake ’s sire is the wolfman that attacked him is more tragic as it is clear he has no control over himself and ca n’t generate to his human shape .
2The Fly (1986)
Brundlefly’s Fingernails Also Fell Off Mid-Transformation
WhileWolf Man ’s change to the werewolf mythosdon’t all oeuvre , the most inspired moments of Blake ’s transmutation owe a debt to the overlord of body repulsion . When Balke in the end transform short before the picture ’s finish , his teeth precipitate free from his sassing and his fingernails pop off his hands to reveal claws . This particularly foul minute is borrowed from theater director David Cronenberg ’s infamously intense 1986 remaking of 1958 ’s campy sci - fi repulsion movieThe Fly .
Jeff Goldblum ’s translation into “ Brundlefly ” is a exonerated influence on Blake ’s fingernail trial by ordeal , although the earlier character ’s transformation was a lot slower . Not only is this fussy contingent tough for viewers to bury , but the movie ’s God Almighty even citedCronenberg ’s employment as an influence onWolf Man . Interestingly , the underrated revulsion television showHemlock Grovefeatured a similarly smutty , rakehell - soaked wolfman transformation 12 years originally , consummate with miss tooth and fingernails falling off the torpedo ’s hired man .
1Saw (2004)
Blake’s Bear Trap Encounter References Leigh Whannel’s Infamous Psychological Horror
One of the best moments inWolf Manis lifted almost straight from the breakout flick written by its theatre director , Leigh Whannel . Before he became a repugnance icon , Whannel was the screenwriter of 2004’sSaw , a psychological thriller whose monolithic box - berth success choke on to breed a ten - movie enfranchisement and sound off set about Whannel ’s career . Wolf ManreferencesSawwith the roughshod scene where Blake gets trapped in a bear trapand , ineffective to escape the snare , responds by chewing off his own foot . This horrifying moment is more than a footling interchangeable to the fate of Cary Elwes ’ Dr. Lawrence Gordon .
Whannell revealed toThe Hollywood Reporterthat this nod was n’t entirely conscious during the committal to writing process .
After rouse up chained to a dank , empty john bulwark with another prisoner , Elwes ’s part finally resorts to saw off his foot so he can break away his death . AlthoughWolf Man ’s new take onThe Wolf Manstoryseems to clearly take up this second from the 2004 movie , Whannell revealed toThe Hollywood Reporterthat this nod was n’t entirely witting during the writing physical process . or else , he mostly intended to expend the scene to highlight the differences between human and brute behavior , as a wolf would be more likely to fall back to pragmatical auto - cannibalism than a human .
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Somewhat ironically , Saw ’s similar scene proves that humans are very capable of the same behavior if given a strong enough impetus . However , Wolf Man ’s nasty jolt still dish up as a barbarous way to prove Blake is drop off touch with the last linger shred of his humanity . It also just so pass to also be , like so many standout moments inWolf Man , a nod to a classic part of horror picture story .
generator : The Hollywood Reporter
