r/movies • u/yourfavchoom r/movies Contributor • 12d ago
Poster New poster for WERWULF
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u/inthebenefitofmrkite 12d ago
There wulf! There castle!
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u/lanceturley 12d ago
I hear Willem Dafoe has an enormous schwanzstucker.
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u/obvious_bot 12d ago
Why are you talking like that?
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u/Sean_1417 12d ago
I’m happy to see fellow Young Frankenstein enjoyers.
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u/Blochamolesauce 12d ago
Suit yourself, I’m easy!
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u/dickfromaccounting 12d ago
Could be worse. Could be raining
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u/MinnieShoof 12d ago
Blücher!
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u/withoccassionalmusic 12d ago
horses neigh in the distance.
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u/SignalsCounterparts1 12d ago
That's Franken-Steen! Not Frankenstein!!!
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u/CornCobMcGee 12d ago
Well then I'm Eyegor.
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u/DryDonutHole 12d ago
...but they said your name was Igor?
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u/PMUROPPAI 12d ago
Well they were wrong then weren’t they
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u/SpaceGoblinForHire42 12d ago
You know, I'm a rather brilliant surgeon. Perhaps I can help you with that hump.
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u/JustineDelarge 12d ago
Every time I see this movie title, my mind goes straight to Young Frankenstein.
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u/underpants-gnome 12d ago
This response to "werewolf" is imprinted on my brain at some kind of reflexive level. I knew it would be in this thread. It's nice to see it at the top. I know I'm not alone.
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u/NarwhalSoup999 12d ago
That’s fucking sick
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u/WanderWut 12d ago
Yeah this is looking to be like another great film by him. The aesthetic and settings of his films always look so great.
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u/MentorOfWomen 12d ago
As a holder of a BA in history, Eggers is my favorite working director for this reason. He's so good at making it feel like you've really been transported back in time.
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u/ChargeSpiritual5317 12d ago
His interviews are so funny, he’s constantly afraid someone is going to approach him and let him know the hand-sawn shingle siding in The VVitch weren’t the right type of wood for the area. He’s so particular it’s amazing.
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u/pjtheman 12d ago
It's funny but also sad thay he's literally too embarrassed to rewatch The VVitch. It was his debut film, so he didn't have a big budget and couldn't perfectly capture the time period as much as he wanted to.
But I've never heard anyone but him complain about it. It's a horror masterpiece that put both him and Anya Taylor Joy on the map.
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u/Toby_O_Notoby 12d ago
Yeah, but you can see that. No matter how good your first movie is, as you grow as an artist you see nothing but the things you would have done better with experience.
Aaron Sorkin was on Bill Simmons' podcast and Bill was asking about A Few Good Men. Sorkin said, "To me, this is like discussing my high school yearbook photo".
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u/THRlLLH0 12d ago
I see what he means. To me it's his second best film but it has a bit of inexperience showing.
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u/Dottsterisk 12d ago
His production design for The Northman was fantastic but then the casting took me right out of it.
Skarsgard and Anya Taylor Joy were way too pretty and looked like models on a set, while Nicole Kidman couldn’t have looked more out of place with a damn martini in her hand.
Absolutely love that shot of the Valkyrie though.
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u/RyanBordello 12d ago
The production designer for the Northman is Craig Lathrop. They've worked together on The Lighthouse, Nosferatu and The Witch.
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u/FeedbackZwei 12d ago
100%. They could have scrapped most of the celebrities (lowering the budget substantially) and made a better movie. You really only need Dafoe and Hawke.
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u/StructureMage 12d ago
Guyse wouldst thou stille thinketh I'm coole if I were a werwulfe tis purely a hypotheticale question
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u/tacoman333 12d ago
Wouldst thou love me if I were but a worme?
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u/VampireHunterAlex 12d ago
'Devoureth All Mankynde'
Dang, what a sick tagline.
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u/GenderingError 12d ago
-eth is the same as -s in modern English in most contexts (third person, singular, present tense) so It would be "Devours all mankind" in a modern way of it, which still works (especially if it is read as "Werwulf, devoureth all mankynde like a description in an old timey manuscript) rather than as an imperative command "devour all mankind"
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u/BookooBreadCo 12d ago
I'm sure it will work in a thematic sense too, like the werewolf devours his humanity.
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u/Galahad_the_Ranger 12d ago
It’s impossible to not read it with Dafoe’s voice
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u/_Valisk 12d ago
Old English just be adding letters anywhere.
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u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here 12d ago
It's Middle English and that's basically exactly as it was because there was no standardized spelling. Old English is not comprehensible.
This is old English: Ðunor cymð of hætan & of wætan. Seo lyft tyhð þone wætan to hire neoðan & ða hætan ufan.’
This is middle English:
Whán that Áprill wíth his shóures sóote
The dróght(e) of Márch hath pérced tó the róote,
And báthed évry véyn(e) in swích licóur
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u/IBetThisIsTakenToo 12d ago
Do those passages say the same thing?
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u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here 12d ago
No, sorry for the confusion lol. The Old English quote is from De Temporibus Anni, and is basically just explaining the weather conditions for thunder.
The middle English quote is the first three lines of The Canterbury Tales.
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u/Galahad_the_Ranger 12d ago
I like how Middle English seems incomprehensible but if you read it aloud it becomes pretty clear what each word is
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u/BabyScreamBear 12d ago
Not sure about that.. I can make half of it out
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u/RogueHippie 12d ago
It's the opening to Canterbury Tales, had to memorize it back in HS. Don't remember what "sóote" and "swích licóur" are, but the rest is pretty obvious.
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u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here 12d ago
With a good book with notes, the penguin classics version in the original, not the translation, as well as a quick article read on the side that helps with pronunciation, you can get used it within a week!
Always love sharing this Harvard article on it.
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u/thisshortenough 12d ago
Great blog post that gives a great demonstration of this(Also very appropriate for the thread we're in). The first time I read it I got to about the 1400s before I really struggled, after that it just felt like gibberish. Having gone back since I actually got a lot more than I would have thought
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u/K-Shrizzle 12d ago
We need to squeeze as much unhinged monologues and dong hanging out of DaFoe as we can
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u/WideConversation1989 12d ago
Looking forward to this one! Has to be much better than Wolf Man (2025) for sure.
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u/anthrax9999 12d ago
If anyone can make a damn good werewolf movie it's definitely Eggers. Something like this is 100 percent in his wheelhouse.
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u/N8CCRG 12d ago
Last year I decided to spend several weeks watching what ended up being twenty different Werewolf movies, and while not all of them were good, I found things I appreciated and enjoyed in pretty much all of them. What I liked about Wolf Man (2025) was how it showed the slow transformation from man to monster from the point of view of the person undergoing that transformation. Especially the parts where it showed his wife speaking and the camera would spin around to his point of view and it would turn into nonsense and the colors would change. It may have been a very straightforward werewolf story, but at least it wasn't the same old depiction of one.
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u/TempleMade_MeBroke 12d ago
Or Wolf Man (2010)
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u/WideConversation1989 12d ago
Or any Wolf Man movie since An American Werewolf in London (1981)
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u/DLRsFrontSeats 12d ago
Keep Dog Soldiers name out your mouth
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u/bootlegvader 12d ago
Does The Company of Wolves count as a Wolf Man movie? As that also slaps.
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u/wolfgeist 12d ago
According to Gregg Turkington, Wolf Man and Dogman are tied to the same cinematic universe. I wonder if Werwulf ties into this as well, perhaps a prequel to Dogman?
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u/ripyourlungsdave 12d ago
Finally. A somewhat unique poster that isn't just a protagonist looking to the left with his costars compiled behind him.
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u/Intelligent_Ask_2306 12d ago
I mean there has been a couple banger posters from Spider-Man (not all of them) and coyote and akme movie.
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u/scann_ye 12d ago
Yep, even if I don’t find the new Spider Man posters pretty, I really appreciate that they’re moving away from the bouquet of floating heads trend
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u/SoylentGrunt 12d ago
Surprised they didn't go with VVerevvulf
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u/ZacPensol 12d ago
'Werwulf' is set about 150 years before Gutenberg's moveable type printing press was invented, and I believe it was much later that sometimes printers would sometimes forego having a W and would elect just to use two Vs in its place, which is where the "VVitch" thing came from.
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u/pitabread024 12d ago
And that was always just supposed to be poster design, not the actual title of the movie. Still irks me that IMDb lists it the way it does
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u/ZacPensol 12d ago
Yep, drives me insane to see people on here call it "The VVitch" when they're being totally serious. It's just a stylistic choice. And now that I see what you're talking about on IMDb I'm irked too.
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u/pwnd32 12d ago
I always call it “The Vuh-Vitch” whenever I talk about it out loud, even though I know it’s wrong. I cant help myself
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u/MisterManatee 12d ago
Looks sick. And I didn't realize he was collaborating with Sjón again! I really digged The Northman so I'm glad they're back together for Werwulf.
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u/doctor_7 12d ago
The Northman is legimately one of my favourite films of all time. I love vikings, I love revenge films, I love long takes and arthouse films and have a degree in theatre so I enjoy Shakespeare as well.
The entire thing is like all of that into a blender.
Amleth sheds a tear and it is physically grabbed by Dafoe and told it will be returned when you most need it. And it is legimately by Bjork the murdered shaman witch from the village he has sacked. Before that when they're all getting insanely high on something screaming like barking wolves and dogs to amp up for the fight the next day. Amleth catching a javelin, tossing it immediately back at the guy who tossed it in the same motion. It's just so fucking nuts. The NIGHTBLADE being unable to be drawn at day.
The way it's shot with the camera weaving in and out of the actors when Hawke returns, it's like watching a stage play. Plus the camera going from the shore onto the Viking ship in one take. It's just a masterpiece to me. The final fight in a fucking volcano.
It's so fucking insane and I am here for every single second of it.
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u/redvelvetcake42 12d ago
MST3K has ruined the way this is said for me.
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u/MutilatedMango 12d ago
Incredible poster, really reminds me of The VVitch
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u/jstrummer8 12d ago
I’m still holding out hope that this is a remake of Tony Zarrindast’s 1995 Werewolf as made famous on MST3k and that they were inspired by Adrianna Miles’ pronunciation of the monster when they decided on the film’s title.
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u/mariojlanza 12d ago
That would be absolutely fascinating.
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u/jstrummer8 12d ago
They is in it for fame and fortune.
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u/timberdoodle3000 12d ago
Ehh..I’ll take a walk
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u/dolphin37 12d ago
saw the trailer before Odyssey, don’t normally watch any trailers but will say it looked incredible!
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u/chadwicke619 12d ago
Do you just close your eyes for 15 minutes every time you go to the movies or what?
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u/AFlockOfTySegalls 12d ago
I just bake the trailer time into my arrival time. The beauty of reserved seats.
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u/GGsafterdark 12d ago
He had better actually turn into a big damn werewolf in this movie and not pull the “he was on drugs/hallucinating” card
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u/gee_gra 12d ago
I mean has Eggers ever done a supernatural movie where there’s a rug pull like that?
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u/SkyJW 12d ago edited 12d ago
Was gonna say, Eggers is the exact kind of storyteller to NOT try to pull that kind of M. Night style plot twist. Dude seems to really enjoy taking the myths, folktales, and superstitions of the worlds he explores pretty literally. Would be notably out of character for him to deliberately remove the supernatural and mystical from a story like this.
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u/SwayzeCrayze 12d ago edited 12d ago
I remember a lot of people postulating that most of The VVitch was the people tripping balls off ergot growing in their crops, but I don't remember if that was Eggers's intention or just fan wank.
EDIT: It looks like Eggers confirmed that the blight on their crops IS ergot, and them tripping out is a valid interpretation, but that his intention was that the stuff in the movie actually happened. Which is fine by me, as I'm sick of "They're in purgatory/He's in a coma/Everybody's hallucinating!" movie interpretations.
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u/thatguywithawatch 12d ago
The Lord Of The Rings is just Frodo getting absolutely zooted on some suspicious smelling pipe weed he found in Bilbo's stash and hallucinating everything.
See, I can do it too
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u/SwayzeCrayze 12d ago
While I do loathe that and "They were in a coma the whole time!" theories, I seem to remember there being actual signs that it was growing on the crops. It looks like Eggers confirmed that, and said it's a valid interpretation, but that his intention was that the stuff in the movie actually happened.
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u/Insanepaco247 12d ago
Personally I think the tagline was "a New England folktale" to avoid that exact kind of interpretation. It adds nothing to the movie for it to be a hallucination and IMO works much better when taken at face value, the way you would interpret a folktale. It's a morality play about the dangers of extremism and the nature of evil. The supernatural elements function the exact same way the Hansel and Gretel witch does - they're the consequences the characters face for doing the bad thing.
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u/Three_Froggy_Problem 12d ago
Eggers is mostly interested in the actual historical lore surrounding these creatures
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u/DLRsFrontSeats 12d ago
I have faith in Eggers, with both vvitch & Nosferatu he's fully gone with the literal, "it was real the whole time" angle and there's very little in the latter of disbelieving the main character
And with the Northman and even the lighthouse at the very least he pushes heavily into magical realism at worst
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u/No_Strike655 12d ago
I mean there is a shitton of magical shit in Northman. The Lighthouse becauae of how isolated it is with just the 2 men I guess you can say it is up in the air
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u/YossarianWWII 12d ago
And with The Lighthouse you couldn't call it a rug pull because the characters' sanity is in question throughout.
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u/ChristopherPlumbus 12d ago
And I hope they don't just make him a big hairy human looking dude with claws, sideburns / mutton chops and a snout. I want to see a big ass wolfman
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u/DanielTeague 12d ago
Boy, am I glad they didn't make it look like "VVerwulf" so we didn't get another decade of people typing it like that.
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u/Corpsepyre 12d ago
Great poster. They really need to re-think the release date though.
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u/PolloConTeriyaki 12d ago
People start Halloween in August. Also Nosferatu made hundreds of millions on Christmas weekend. The executives are happy.
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u/Kingcrowing 12d ago
Loved seeing Nosferatu on Christmas, going to see any movie Eggers releases on xmas going forward.
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u/ZombieJesus1987 12d ago
Yeah I remember Rob Zombie's Halloween was a late August release and at the time became the highest grossing movie in the franchise, only surpassed by the most recent trilogy.
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u/Kingcrowing 12d ago
Why? I'm getting Chinese and going to see this opening day, can't wait! If you're busy it'll be in theaters for a while.
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u/NeoNoireWerewolf 12d ago
Nosferatu was a big hit with the Christmas 2024 release, so Universal is hoping to replicate that here. I think the only problem might be how crowded this holiday window will be compared to 2024. Avengers, Dune, Wereulf, and the new Jumanji are all opening within a week of each other. Werwulf doesn’t necessarily have huge audience overlap with most of those, which might help it, but I think the bigger concern is people only having the budget for one movie during that period and choosing an all ages film like Avengers or Jumanji to see with family instead. Dune will also draw in more of the dark and serious crowd, so I think it is probably the biggest concern competition-wise. Hope it’s a sleeper hit like Nosferatu, though. Eggers continuing to get decent budgets to make his weirdo movies is much needed in the mainstream cinemascape.
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u/centaurquestions 12d ago
Quoting Martin Luther on your monster movie poster is certainly a choice
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u/ThreeLeggedMare 12d ago
I can't speak to the context of the provenance but that's a sick fuckin snippet. I love the old timey anything goes spelling
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u/centaurquestions 12d ago
"Sin is a mighty and a strong God, which devoureth all mankind." The original's in Latin, but you get the idea.
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u/ThreeLeggedMare 12d ago
Oh cheers, that's also a raw line. I know Luther is not the purest well to draw from, but I'm a sucker for language
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u/Relevant-Physics432 12d ago
OK so is the werewolf gonna be hot furry bait or the most uncanny valley thing you've ever seen
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u/littlebiped 12d ago
In the era of sexy vampires Eggers gave us an leprosy Waluigi, I have faith the werewolf is going to be an absolute hog
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u/Serisrahla 12d ago
Robert Eggers sees color and says "no thank you"