Werewolf By Night is already an unusual project for Marvel Studios, but it further distinguishes itself from the rest of the MCU by the inclusion of something we haven’t seen a lot of in previous movies – blood and gore.
The horror throwback adapts the comic books, but takes on the style of monster movies throughout the ages, and director Michael Giacchino says that his wish to bring some of the bloody violence of the genre into his movie was something that no one ever questioned:
“Well, it was one of those things where no one said no,” he told IGN. “I just kept pushing. I knew that we were going to balance that with heart and humor and humanity and empathy and all of that. And as long as we kept that balance in tow that I felt like we had some leeway to push on the horror side.
“And look, we’re dealing with monsters, monster movies, and I felt like we needed to just go into that realm, just not be afraid of it. And if that meant, ‘Sorry, you’re going to have to edit this,’ somebody came into my room. And if that meant that we were going to try some new things, we were going to try some new things.”
The director’s interest in adding more gore became apparent to the crew, it seems: “The big joke on set became when they would be like, ‘All right Michael, how is this? Is this good?’ I’d be like [Giachinno grimaces], I would start to say something, and they’d go, ‘Let me guess more blood. You want more blood, right?'”
Giacchino admits that there was some trepidation about his approach: “I think there was an air around the production of, ‘What’s going to happen? Are they going to let us do this while we come back with all this footage that is so violent? What’s going to happen?’ But I knew in my heart that what we were doing was not sadistic. We weren’t creating a film that was all about just indiscriminate killing. It was about the people. And I feel like if you keep it about the characters and the people, then you’ll have some leeway to do some other things that you normally wouldn’t get to do.”
He added that a key was that the movie’s look naturally takes away some of the impact of gore, too: “And being in black and white didn’t hurt us either.”
The Halloween themed ‘Special Presentation’ is invoking the look of classic grindhouse movies, with a first trailer showing us something of the plot. The cast is shown in a spooky mansion, with a monster raging in a cage while surrounded by soldiers, as well as quick-cut horror movie-style shots. The last shot is of a werewolf, played by Gael Garcia Bernal, attacking Laura Donnelly, who will play Elsa Bloodstone.
The feature arrives on Disney+ on October 7, and continues Marvel’s interesting turn into horror-inspired filmmaking.
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