Determined to have his own crack at the business, in the early 2000s Whannell and fellow Aussie James Wan wrote the screenplay for shocking horror Saw. Despite being made on a shoestring budget, Saw ...

It’s been an agonizing five-year wait for Leigh Whannell’s follow-up to his near-universally acclaimed The Invisible Man. As the pandemic became more and more prolonged, Whannell and his co ...

By Esther Zuckerman Shortly after the director Leigh Whannell’s 2020 take on “The Invisible Man” became a box office success, he got a call from Universal asking if he would like to tackle ...

It’s also another clever Universal Monster update from filmmaker Leigh Whannell (and Corbett Tuck, his co-writer and wife) after he saw through The Invisible Man and focused on his victim.

Wolf Man 2.5 out of 5 Stars Director: Leigh Whannell Writers: Leigh Whannell, Corbett Tuck, Lauren Schuker Blum, Rebecca Angelo Starring: Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner, Matilda Firth ...

The last time Leigh Whannell directed a movie, it was that almost shockingly good entry from early 2020. His “Wolf Man” is not of that caliber. Like “The Invisible Man,” it is an offering ...

The Leigh Whannell-directed film stars Christopher Abbott and Julia Garner. It's a good omen for the new movie year when a fresh take on the werewolf myth comes with expectations of making a killing.

It’s so close, in fact, that the steam from its breath wafts up over the top. Director Leigh Whannell frames the shot like a landscape, with the door as the horizon. The image is eerie and ...

By Brian Davids Writer It’s been an agonizing five-year wait for Leigh Whannell’s follow-up to his near-universally acclaimed The Invisible Man. But before their moving truck could safely ...

That young man is a 20-year-old Leigh Whannell and, just a few short years later, he is going to be part of redefining the horror genre. "I didn't realise what a great job [Recovery] was ...