No Sparkles Here: The Wolfman trailer

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No Sparkles Here: The Wolfman trailer

22 October 2009One CommentPosted by Russ

Now this is a movie I can sink my teeth into (bad pun totally intended): young nobleman played by Benicio Del Toro goes back home after his brother disappears, only to discover there's a great deal more going on in the town of Blackmoor than he assumes: Werewolves! The trailer shows the victorian-ish era done remarkably well (though I wager historians will inevitably cry 'It wasnt like that!'), with excellent set designs and CG. Of particular note to me are the transformation sequences, they seem particularly well done; the actor convincingly displays the kind of horrendous pain having every single part of your body shifted into another shape while completely conscious, and the werewolf design looks damned threatening. Plus, we have Anthony Hopkins as a particularly malicious-looking estranged father, and that just makes me squee with evil glee, and Hugo Weaving as a disbelieving Scotland Yard inspector ('Lycanthropy is a virus...'); Im expecting a few deadpan humor moments from him, he's good at those.

"Inspired by the classic Universal film that launched a legacy of horror, The Wolfman brings the myth of a cursed man back to its iconic origins. Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro stars as Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father (Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins), Talbot sets out to find his brother...and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself.

Lawrence Talbot's childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother's fiancee, Gwen Conliffe (Emily Blunt), tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search. he learns that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline (Hugo Weaving) has come to investigate.

As he pieces together the gory puzzle, he hears of an ancient curse that turns the afflicted into werewolves when the moon is full. Now, if he has any chance at ending the slaughter and protecting the woman he has grown to love, Talbot must destroy the vicious creature in the woods surrounding Blackmoor. But as he hunts for the nightmarish beast, as simple man with a tortured past will uncover a primal side to himself... one he never imagined existed.

Joe Johnston (Jurassic Park III) directs The Wolfman, and six-time Oscar winning special effects artist Rick Baker brings his design and makeup talents to transform Del Toro into the fearsome title character." [Universal]