In 2020, director Leigh Whannell remade The Invisible Man into a shockingly effective modern thriller. Now, he’s updating another musty horror property. By the looks of the trailer, he isn’t reinventing the violent hairball too drastically: you’ve got a mysterious nocturnal animal attack in the woods, a family in an isolated farmhouse, a wounded father, and a classic jumpscare involving a beat-up old truck that refuses to start. But it looks intense, and Whannell seems to approach the transformation of man to beast from a more physiological angle than his predecessors.
In cinemas worldwide Jan 17