News Werwulf Things Look Bleak in the Trailer for Robert Eggers’ Werwulf Nobody ever asks “How wolf?” By Molly Templeton | Published on June 29, 2026 Image: Focus Features Comment 0 Share New Share Image: Focus Features If there is one thing consistent across all—or at least most—werewolf media, it’s that transformation sucks. One must have plenty of cracking bones and tearing tendon sound effects. There’s only the briefest shot of said terrible transformation in the trailer for Robert Eggers’ Werwulf, but the vibes are here. Everything, in this gray-brown medieval world, seems like it sucks. There are hanging bodies and bowls of blood and women with inscrutably dire expressions! Prayers and priests! It looks, as one might expect, like a Middle Ages cousin to Eggers’ Nosferatu. I’d ask which creature the writer and director is going to tackle next, but he’s already attached to both A Christmas Carol and a Labyrinth sequel that I deeply hope never gets made. For Werwulf, Aaron Taylor-Johnson once again gets close with his beastly side (which he presumably also did in Kraven the Hunter) as a man who turns into a wolf. Little plot description is on offer; the logline says only, “In 13th-century England, a mysterious creature stalks a foggy countryside as local folklore becomes a terrifying reality for the villagers.” The film also stars returning Eggers players Lily-Rose Depp, Willem Dafoe, and Ralph Ineson, as well as Jack Morris, Jan Bijvoet, Ritchi Edwards, and Bodhi Rae Breathnach. Eggers has once again collaborated with his Northman co-writer Sjón on the screenplay. Werwulf will be in theaters on Christmas Day—on which a full moon does not occur, just FYI. But there is one tonight.[end-mark] The post Things Look Bleak in the Trailer for Robert Eggers’ <i>Werwulf</i> appeared first on Reactor.