The secret to making a great wolf man movie -- and you gotta pinky swear not to tell anybody about this, because it's a secret -- is that the "wolf man" part is optional. Werewolf stories aren't about transforming into half-human/half-canine hybrids as much as they're about people wrestling with their darkest impulses.

Leigh Whannell follows ‘The Invisible Man’ with another update on a classic from the Universal archives, unfolding in an isolated farmhouse in the Pacific Northwest.

Ahead of the movie's release this week, Abbott has revealed that his "biggest" inspiration for the role was classic '80s sci-fi horror The Fly, given how the transformation in Wolf Man compares to that movie.