Overview
- Focus Features released an atmospheric teaser on Friday and followed with the official full trailer on Saturday, both keeping any full creature reveal offscreen.
- Werwulf is set in 13th-century England and follows a mysterious beast stalking villagers, with the film scheduled to open in theaters on December 25.
- Eggers has called Werwulf “the darkest thing” he has written and says he mined older folklore to avoid familiar werewolf clichés such as bite-based transformations and silver bullets.
- The principal cast includes Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the cursed, nameless protagonist, Lily-Rose Depp as his wife and emotional center who undergoes a marked physical transformation, and Willem Dafoe as a hunter figure.
- The studio’s staged rollout — teaser, trailer and withheld monster imagery — emphasizes mood, historical texture and mystery and positions the film as atmospheric counterprogramming for the holiday box office.