Wolf Man (2025)

Episode 444, 2 Guys and a Chainsaw Horror Movie Review Podcast

Todd: Hello and welcome to another episode of Two Guys and a Chainsaw. I’m Todd.

Craig: And I’m Craig.

Todd: This week, uh, we’re doing something that Craig picked another brand new film, and this is titled Wolf Man. Gosh, it just came out, I think, uh, in January of this year, and I believe it’s getting mixed reviews. The director, I, you know, I didn’t know anything about this when you sent it to me.

In fact, I just pulled it up and started playing it. I didn’t read a darn thing, so I was really surprised to see this looks like a, a Leigh Whannell passion project, ell, whatever his name is. Yeah. Many of you might remember him as being part of the duo behind the original saw franchise. He’s gone off to do a lot of different things since then.

He’s done some acting as well. He’s got a voice in this. Mm-hmm. But in this case, he’s the director and the writers are him and his wife and it seems like something they put together during the pandemic and it kind of shows, it’s got some thematic elements there. 

Craig: Yeah. I don’t know if it was a passion project.

I mean, I, a different director was attached at some point, and it was originally gonna star Ryan Gosling. When that fell through, the director left and Gosling left with him, I think, or vice versa. I don’t remember. 

Todd: Well, I guess it was gonna be originally. Part of the universal Dark Universe way back when.

Right, 

Craig: right. But then the Mummy tanked so bad, which I’m not surprised. It was terrible. I hated it. I never saw it. I’m not a big Tom Cruise fan anyway. I don’t know. It just wasn’t great. And that’s too bad. ’cause you know, they’re still gonna keep making these movies. They’re just not gonna do them as quickly, and they’re not necessarily.

Interesting. Linking ’em together. Yeah, right. Exactly. They’re not going for like a dark Avengers type thing or anything like that. 

Todd: Well, let’s be honest. It’s kind of a dumb idea. I mean, I get where they’re going, you know, they’ve got all these properties. It’s kind of what they’re known for since putting universes together is a big thing now.

And of course it’s a huge money maker if you can make it work, at least like Marvel has, but nobody else has really been able to do it. DC’s kind of foundering in their attempts to do it. Yeah, and this whole notion that you can take Frankenstein and the Mummy and Dracula, I mean, as a thematic group of monster movies that came out at a particular time, that sort of set a stage, that’s one thing, but like.

To then say that now we can connect them all in this grander universe is, uh, I always thought that was gonna be tricky for them. 

Craig: Yeah, I guess it would be tricky. I don’t know, it just seems like it should be such a cool thing to be able to do. At least. I don’t know. It, it makes the little kid me really excited, you know, to Jason versus Freddie kind of thing, but it’s never worked, you know?

Like, no, I liked Van Helsing with Hugh Jackman. Oh, it’s not a good movie. I still enjoyed it. The League of Extraordinary Gentleman was bad. So it’s been tried before and it’s never worked. I wish it would. Yeah. I think people are even at this point, exhausted with Marvel, and maybe I’m wrong. I mean, I, I’m sure those movies and shows are continuing to make tons of money, but I’m exhausted with it so 

Todd: everyone I 

Craig: know.

Is exhausted. Maybe it’s just our age, though. Who knows? Maybe, I don’t know. It’s just too much to keep track of and now like they’re moving into a different phase. I’m like, I don’t care. 

Todd: I lost track of this a 

Craig: long time ago. Yeah, right. I think I’ll skip this next phase. It’ll be, it’ll be all right. So anyway, this is a remake or, well, I mean, kind of a remake of, I don’t know, what year was it?

It was sometime in the thirties. One of the original, yeah. Or maybe the original Wolfman. I don’t know. And I like it, the movie a lot and there are lots of things that I like about it, but I like that it kind of has that old school, not necessarily any particular studio, but just kind of a feel. It’s very isolated.

It’s a very small cast. Yeah. It’s a lot of, you know, old Dark House spooky woods. I, I just love that feel of it. And I think it balances well, those classic elements. But isn’t just a carbon copy of things we’ve seen before. Right. He’s experimenting with some new things. He’s playing with lore and visuals and, and all kinds of things.

So, I mean, just going in, I told you this wasn’t something that we had planned. It wasn’t even something that was on my list. I just happened to be scrolling through my streaming services to see what was new and I saw that this was available on Peacock love horror movies, obviously. So that’s a given. I probably would’ve watched it anyway, but I was particularly interested in this one because it’s stars.

Julia Garner. Yeah. Who I’m a big fan of. Have you ever seen her in anything? I feel like I have, but nothing’s coming to mind. She’s gonna be the new Silver Surfer in the new Fantastic four. She was great in Ozark. I think she was either nominated for or won Emmy’s for her and, and as far as I’m concerned, that was a great show and Jason Bateman was the star, as far as I’m concerned.

She was the star of that show. Oh yeah. Within the first season. She was the character that I was most invested in and remained most invested in throughout. Oh, she was just fantastic. She also, I mean, she’s a brilliant actress. She, is she related to Jennifer Garner? I don’t think so. She played. Anna Delvy, that f