The writer-director tells IndieWire how his reinvention of a Universal horror icon reflected his own fears and anxieties during the pandemic.

The writer and director of “The Invisible Man,” 21st-century style, is back with an interpretation of another Universal Pictures monster movie, “Wolf Man.”

“Wolf Man” then jumps ahead 30 years, to adult Blake (Christopher Abbott) out in a busy San Francisco enjoying daddy-daughter time with young Ginger (Matilda Firth). Like his father, he is very protective of his child, scolding her for not getting down from a construction structure she walks atop the moment he tells her to do so.