With his marriage fraying, Blake persuades his wife Charlotte to take a break from the city and visit his remote childhood home in rural Oregon. As they arrive at the farmhouse in the dead of night, they're attacked by an unseen animal and barricade themselves inside the home as the creature prowls the perimeter. But as the night stretches on, Blake begins to behave strangely, transforming into something unrecognizable.
It’s implied that Blake’s dad might’ve been at least emotionally abusive. We see him yelling at the boy early on, then Blake mentions how he left home as soon as he could. Mild.
Not in a way one would think. After getting scratched he gets a little forceful with his wife . Later, as a wolf, he does attack her,or tries. Just putting this here for anyone who may be wondering.
The movie opens on a close up shot of ants attacking a wasp. The sound is loud and off-putting. There's no real reason or call back to this scene later, so it's a strange choice to open the film.
As others have mentioned, fingernails are shown gruesomely falling off and someone is shown with fingers missing. One not mentioned already is that someone grabs the blade of a knife and their hand is sliced. It's done in passing and not in close-up, but still worth mentioning.
Very much yes. More so than any werewolf movie I can think of. Writer/director Leigh Whannell said he drew inspiration from The Fly (1986), and the body horror influence is very prominent.
A couple of scenes take place at a hunting structure in the woods. I think there might be a lake or something in the background, but it’s far away and not the focus.
Multiple scares throughout. I don’t remember them all but will add what I can. Spoilers
A couple minor scares in the opening 10 minutes in the deer blind.
After the moving truck crash, Blake tries to close the opened door and is attacked.
When Blake stands by the back door of the house sniffing for the wolf man, he is attacked through the dog door.
When Charlotte takes the family to the old truck to escape, there is a lot of tension as she tries to get it running. When she finally does, the windshield wipers wipe away the dust to reveal the wolf man standing there.
As Blake transforms, he starts to lose his ability to see people in the same way, and he can no longer understand people. The disease eats away at him. In a scene where his mind starts to go, he wets himself.
As Blake transforms, Charlotte undoes the gauze around his arm from the wolf scratch, to see that the skin is gone and bone is visible. Blake’s mind is already going, so be scratches vigorously at this open wound, then bites his arm. It might be worth noting that this isn’t really intentional self harm, but he’s more just reacting like how an animal might, since the disease is taking over.
This is hard to answer. Not in a way that can happen in real life. But the way Blake is isolated in his head and loses his human sense could potentially be triggering for some.
Sorta? Blake’s transformation is slow. There’s very much a focus on it from all main characters. But it’s not like a flaw he’s trying to hide, more like a series of medical emergencies happening. Sorry if this doesn’t fit, I’m just trying to be thorough since no one else has voted on this at the time I’m writing.
I don’t think there’s any flashing lights. During the action scenes, some of the shots are very short, making it look like everything is happening quickly. Moments where a flashlight is pointed towards the camera, but not blinking or anything.
Sorta; I wouldn’t say the camera shakes in the traditional sense, but there are moments that follow a character’s movements. For example, in one scene, Blake doubles over like he’s about to be sick, and the camera turns a bit counter-clockwise to keep him in frame. The camera is steady technically, but those sudden movements might bother some. There are also some action scenes where things move quickly, which might count as a shakey camera.
Not sure if this counts - the main couple have reverse traditional gender roles. So the woman works, and the man is a stay-at-home dad. Nothing negative is explicitly said about this, but it’s implied another man might be judging the man by his demeanor. However, the movie itself does not portray this in a negative light at all and makes the dad a good dad.
No, definitely not. But I think it’s worth mentioning that the disease slowly eats away at Blake’s mind. He loses the ability to understand others, to see recognize his family. He then loses control over bodily functions, and his mind deteriorates. For me, I recognized similarities to a real memory disorder, so I just wanted to mention it in case anyone finds it similar enough to be triggering.