solid movie. it tried to be a creature flick and a deep elevated horror and sorta fails to please either audiences as it doesn't take either path far enough (not that you can't do both, you can!) - I also think the movie was obvious (but how can't it be?) and the metaphor shoved down our throats - but y'know what, like, whatever? I liked it, it's emotional, it's sweet but also incredibly depressing. last week I started reading <i>Nightbitch </i>by Rachel Yoder. the movie recently came on Disney+, I haven't watched it. but yeah, I say tried because even though it is a short book, it was excruciatingly bad. It has a very similar premise to this, at least metaphorically. A woman experiencing motherhood, with the suppressed anger that comes with it, gets really angry at night when the baby won't sleep. Into a bitch (yelling, screaming), a "nightbitch". And into, well, a dog, eventually. But the book ends on a happy note, as her husband learns to love and accept all parts of her and she learns to accept her anger and yada yada. it's very gender essentialist and takes the stand that all women collectively suppress our feelings, and that we are all held under excessive trad standards as well as career standards, much like a working mother 30 years ago, even though it seems obvious feeling those standards n<i>ow</i> come from within and not outside. But enough about <i>Nightbitch</i>. The reason I bring it up is because <i>Wolf Man</i> is, at the very core, about paternal anger. And listen, mothers have good reasons to be angry, it's hard and tiring to be a mom. Fathers also have a good reason to be angry, the exact same ones. And paternal anger can cause harm. Obviously. Mothers also abuse, mothers also yell, mothers also become controlling out of anxiety. But because "women's (collectively) suppressed anger" is "revolutionary", mothers need movies to tell us it's okay and that it won't hurt our kids (even though children often have to carry the "suppressed" anger moms can only let out on their kids) and dads get movies telling us we need to, spoiler alert, kill that anger. They don't get to turn into dogs, or rather, werewolves, without being killed for it. This isn't a critique of this movie. It's a critique of how we talk about anger and gender. A less depressing ending to this would've had him ending the cycle of abuse by changing, literally. But he lets go instead - which also helps. Walking away from it (or dying from it) rather than staying, and doing better. It's cynical. <blockquote><i>"If you're raised with an angry man in your house, there will always be an angry man in your house. You will find him even when he's not there.” </i></blockquote>and sometimes you will become your father - or mother. we should also allow father to feel their suppressed paternal anger, in ways that doesn't inflict harm. because you will get angry, when the kid's been crying every hour at night in the newborn stage or refuses to do the thing that will keep them safe in the street, so you need a way to let it out in a safe way. fathers also need to be full people. or maybe we should just shoot the damn dogs <b>part of:</b> <i><a href="https://boxd.it/Cud9o">2025 releases</a> <a href="https://boxd.it/BVUTk">HORRORx52 [2025]</a> </i><blockquote><i>6. Released in 2025</i></blockquote>

This sucked considering how good it could have been. How they went from <i>The Invisible Man</i> to this is beyond me.

Im going to watch this because of Ruth.👍