Wolf Man (2025)
Leigh Whannell, the co-creator of the Saw films, as well as the creator of the Insidious franchise, has been given access to the classic Universal monsters. His 2020 film, The Invisible Man, wasn't a remake of the 1933 classic but rather a modern revamping of the character. Unfortunately, the movie was a hit at the box office, so now Whannell has restyled Universal's The Wolf Man as Wolf Man.

After receiving information that his estranged father has officially been declared deceased, Blake (Christopher Abbott), his wife Charlotte (Julia Garner), and their daughter Ginger (Matilda Firth) travel to the father's isolated farmhouse for a getaway. When a man or creature appears in the road, Blake crashes their moving truck. With the mysterious beast on the prowl, the family barricades themselves in the farmhouse. It turns out that Blake was scratched by the beast during the initial attack and slowly begins to transform into something horrible throughout the night.
The movie's opening texts refer to an animal-borne virus referred to as "hills fever," which Indigenous people in the area call "face of the wolf," so he's not really a werewolf. In fact, instead of werewolf movies of the past, Whannell's movie seems to be influenced by David Cronenberg's 1986 version of The Fly, where Jeff Goldblum slowly and painfully transforms into an insect. Thanks to Goldblum's excellent performance, that film is tragic, darkly funny, and emotional. In Wolf Man, Blake is struggling to not be like his angry father, but the emotional element of the story doesn't come through thanks to the film's sluggish pacing.
The final transformation is pretty disappointing. Maybe the filmmakers were going for the minimalist makeup Jack Pierce created for Henry Hull in Universal's Werewolf of London (1935), but the final result in this film looks like a caveman.
For the absolute best werewolf transformation, check out Rick Baker's Oscar-winning effects work in An American Werewolf in London (1981).