Leigh Whannell gets honest about 'Wolf Man'

Wolf Man blends supernatural horror and family drama; for its director, Leigh Whannell, this was not difficult.

Especially given his previous works Saw, Insidious, and Upgrade, he said in an interview with GamesRadar+.

"You sort of need to build it brick-by-brick, so before I start writing the actual screenplay, I'm figuring out biographies for the characters," the filmmaker added.

“Who are they? And because you take the process in those steps, it allows you to build something that hopefully feels whole. I want people to watch a film of mine and feel like they're in a whole world,” he continued.

“So when it comes to the balance of the scares and the more emotional family stuff, it's just about using yourself as a barometer.”

"You can feel it if it's leaning too far in one direction," Leigh concluded. "I [still] want the film to be a dread-inducing experience; tension, suffocation. I want the film to feel like a boot on the throat of the audience."

Wolf Man is set to be released in cinemas on January 17.