Wolf Man(2025)
2025 · Leigh Whannell · 103 min
With his marriage fraying, Blake persuades his wife Charlotte to take a break from the city and visit his remote childhood home in rural Oregon. As they arrive at the farmhouse in the dead of night, they're attacked by an unseen animal and barricade themselves inside the home as the creature prowls the perimeter. But as the night stretches on, Blake begins to behave strangely, transforming into something unrecognizable.
Horror · Thriller
6.11k votes
TMDB score
4/5
Intensity
4/5
Gore
4/5
Stays with you
How Wolf Man scares
The story starts small and tense, trapped in one house for most of the night, before it slowly tips into something more physically horrifying as the hours pass. Instead of jump scares, most of the fear comes from watching someone you love change into something else right in front of you, which hits more like a slow gut-punch than a jolt. The body horror is close-up and uncomfortable rather than flashy, and there's a real sadness underneath the scares. It's less about being chased and more about dread, grief, and watching control slip away.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Wolf Man rates psychological 4/5, visceral 4/5, gore 4/5, lingering effect 4/5, and overall intensity 4/5.
- Psychological: 4 of 5
- Visceral: 4 of 5
- Gore: 4 of 5
- Lingering: 4 of 5
- Intensity: 4 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 25 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 25 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 70 of 100 — leans Disturbing
Intensity over runtime
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A slow, dread-soaked setup gives way to a night of escalating scares that keep tightening with only brief pauses to catch your breath.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4, 4, 5, 3.
How scary is Wolf Man?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, Wolf Man rates 4/5 — one of the more punishing watches in the catalog, building its fear through slow-burn dread rather than shocks. It works on both fronts, unsettling the mind while going for the body. Expect it to be heavy on gore and genuinely disturbing. Expect it to stay with you for days.
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