Leigh Whannell's second in Blumhouse's Universal Monsterverse is co-written by Corbett Tuck.
Christopher Abbott - Blake Lovell
Julia Garner - Charlotte Lovell
Matilda Firth - Ginger Lovell
Sam Jaeger - Grady Lovell
Summary
In 1995, while hunting deer in the remote mountains of Oregon, Blake and his father Grady spot a humanoid creature and hide inside a hunting blind. Later that night, Grady vows to find it.
Thirty years later, Blake lives in San Francisco with his wife Charlotte and their young daughter Ginger.
After Grady is declared officially dead, who went missing years back, Blake also receives the keys for his childhood home and persuades Charlotte to vacation there.
En route, the family are forced off the road by a creature, which scratches Blake.
They manage to reach the farmhouse and barricade themselves in.
However, as time passes by, Blake becomes sick and gradually undergoes a terrifying transformation.
Dying
Ignoring the opening 30 minutes, the rest is like The Fly (1986), but really boring.
Performances are good though, and Arjen Tuiten's impressive prosthetics were not touched up with CG.
When Charlotte is forced into shooting Blake, I felt nothing, unlike An American Werewolf in London.
The twist of Grady being a werewolf and infecting offspring is lifted straight from The Wolfman (2010).
Also, creature maintaining human intelligence while becoming more aggressive is eerily similar to the first film of its type - Werewolf of London (1935).
By far the most interesting thing is Blake's POV basked in brilliant blue, with the eyes of those around him glowing white.
Who knows if intentional, but latter aspect reeks of the children born in Village of the Damned (1960).
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