Wolf Man (2025) review

Struggling writer Blake Lovell (Christopher Abbott) receives a letter in the mail notifying him that his father Grady (Sam Jaeger) has officially been declared deceased, so he travels with his journalist wife Charlotte (Julia Garner) and daughter Ginger (Matilda Firth) to central Oregon to clean out ol' Pop's cabin, only for them to be hunted down by some persistent beast.  Considering that the title character is an iconic big-screen presence, Whannell could have gone in any number of directions with this, but instead chose to take the "easy" (and unimaginative) route of having wolf-like men with alopecia darting around the woods ... and adds to that an Annoying Little Child and, keeping with the times, makes it all about "Generational Trauma" (Blake in wolf-form has to kill his old man "who made him prone to anger").  For the inevitable sequel, will Charlotte and Ginger have to spend years in therapy, or is the bond between a mother and daughter so air-tight there can be no lasting repercussions? (I kid, of course.)