Disney's black-and-white creature feature WerewolfByNight harkens back to classic Hollywood horror and a time before Marvel went all-in on superhero stories.
There was a period in the 1960s when Marvel Comics ruled the world of monsters. Series like Tales to Astonish and Journey Into Mystery introduced readers to one terrifying — and typically, giant-sized — creature after another, years before Marvel turned its full attention to superhero stories.
Less is more Presented as a classic, black-and-white horror film a la the Universal Pictures monster classics, Werewolf By Night casts Gael García Bernal as a monster hunter and secret werewolf Jack Russell . After Russell is summoned to the estate of recently deceased, prolific hunter Ulysses Bloodstone, he soon finds himself pitted against a group of hunters vying for a powerful artifact from Bloodstone’s collection.
Bloody good While the film itself is packed with plenty of familiar pieces and echoes of the past, Werewolf By Night also breaks some new ground for Disney and the MCU. Whoever knows fear… García Bernal’s talents are put to good use as Russell, the film’s titular wolfman, and he adds plenty of humor and heart to the character to accompany the horror unfolding around him. Laura Donnelly also delivers a good performance as Elsa Bloodstone, Ulysses’ estranged daughter, making her debut in the MCU.
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