The Invisible Man
Leigh Whannellachieved a memorable breakout with the low - budget repugnance movieSaw , which he co - wrote and starred in ( as Adam ) alongside Cary Elwes . Both Whannell and conductor James Wan afterward shot to the big time overnight , and the film ’s success spawned the long - runningSawfranchise , even after both man left . Whannell and Wan after collaborated on picture such asDeath Sentence , Insidious , andThe invocation , with ongoing repugnance franchises being bear from the latter two .
Whannell made his directorial debut in theInsidiousseries withInsidious : Chapter 3(2015 ) before continue his career as a director withUpgrade(2018 ) andThe Invisible Man(2020 ) . In 2025,he take aim another repulsion motion-picture show withWolf Man . Across his relatively fledgling career as a manager , Leigh Whannell has continue to scare audiences while venturing outsidetheSawfranchise ’s entrails , interlocking his repulsion account with new elements and themes that have made his directorial employment in two ways impactful .
4Wolf Man (2025)
Leigh Whannell Revives The Werewolf Legend
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After hitting it big with his Universal Horror revival meeting ofThe Invisible Manin 2020 , Leigh Whannell set his sights on another classical demon from the catalogue . However , he select not to link the two films andinstead madeWolf Mana standalone repulsion movie . InWolf Man , Christopher Abbott plays Blake Lovell , a man who decides to vacation at his childhood family with his wife Charlotte and girl Ginger . His father has died , and he desire to use this head trip to endeavor to mend his struggle marriage .
Movie Title
Date of Release
Insidious : Chapter 3
June 5 , 2015
Upgrade
June 1 , 2018
February 28 , 2020
Wolf Man
January 17 , 2025
However , that all last out the windowpane when a lycanthrope prick him , and Blake starts to turn over into a Wolf Man , put his wife and daughter in danger . The film receive mixed to minus reviews , with a 49 % Rotten Tomatoes score from critic and a 56 % from the audience grievance . Whannell tried to apply the transformation as an emblem of a man with uncontrollable choler who wants to protect his family line so much that he soon becomes the monster that threaten them himself . It did n’t solve as well as Whannell ’s other moving-picture show , though .
3Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)
The Third Chapter In The Terrifying Supernatural Saga
A prequel to the first twoInsidiousmovies , Insidious : Chapter 3focuses on the serial ' mainstay daemon expert , Elise Rainer ( Lin Shaye ) , as she help oneself in the case of a young woman named Quinn ( Stefanie Scott ) . With Quinn finding herself haunted by an ethereal mien known as " The world Who Ca n’t emit " ( Michael Reid MacKay),Elise squirm with confidence in her ability to exorcise the malefic entity , a shift from her expertness in the supernatural first established inInsidiousthat elevates the scares ofInsidious : Chapter 3 .
Horror director James Wan talks about the inhalation for Insidious , want to do something more atmospheric and less bally like his debut picture show Saw .
Whannell and Angus Tucker also fall as Specs and Tucker , adding the dash of light - heartedness they ’ve long given theInsidiousfranchise . Their story is flip into con creative person demon hunter who out of the blue become the genuine article . Insidious : Chapter 3is awash in the haunted house atmosphere that made its herald tie in with audience . If it is slightly less potent than the first twoInsidiousmovies , that is primarily a by-product of audiences being comparatively familiar with theInsidiousfranchise ’s world by that point .
Whannell keeps the suspense high and the scares strategically well - timed . At the same clip , Shaye ’s more unsure performance as Elise testify a unexampled side to the dealership ’s heroine , celebrate the tension befittingly tight throughout the prequel . In building theInsidiousfranchise , James Wanand Leigh Whannell showed their control of repugnance was one thatdid not mandate the R - rank carnage of theSawmovies to be effective , with Whannell applying those tools to the story ofInsidious Chapter 3to get off to a solid starting line in his directorial debut .
2The Invisible Man (2020)
The Best Movie In The Canceled Dark Universe Franchise
rise from the ashes of Universal ’s cast away Dark Universe programme , The Invisible Manmodernized the classical horror talewhile score one of the last big pre - pandemic box office hauls . When Cecilia Kass ( Elizabeth Moss ) thinks she ’s escaped her scurrilous boyfriend , Adrian Griffin ( Oliver Jackson - Cohen ) , she comes to question her safety and even her own sanity when Adrian still seems to be pursuing her after his death .
The unseeable Man demonstrate a hit with horror fans earlier this twelvemonth , but what ’s the hidden meaning behind Adrian ’s shocking expiry at the motion-picture show ’s close ?
absentminded from the gore ofSawand the supernatural elements ofInsidious , The Invisible Manplays on a different form of horror , usingAdrian ’s gamy - tech invisibility suitas a fomite for a chilling tale of domestic abuse and gaslighting . With each articulatio humeri brush , veiled whisper , or outright physical fight with an unseen figure , Cecilia find herself crowd closer and nigher to a skittish crack-up , her constant terror ever seeable on her perspiring , sopor - deprive face .
nvisible Manrivals and sometimes even surpasses the personal effects work onHollow Man .
In a movie with the title ofThe Invisible Man , the visual effects can only be top - snick , and Whannell ’s film delivers spectacularly with a bare $ 7 million budget . The Invisible Manrivals and sometimes even surpasses the effects cultivate onHollow Man(2000 ) in rendering partial visibleness to the invisibility suit - invest Adrian . More than anything ,
The Invisible Man ’s constant tension on whether Adrian looms unseen is palpably masterly , with a monster of a jump scare using a suddenly linger kitchen knife one of Whannell ’s many hits of unexpected panic in the moving-picture show . The inconspicuous Manis an outstanding rebootand , on its own term , a terrifying revulsion movie experience perfect to frighten viewers to their core , with its sci - fi MacGuffin make its horror all the more actual amid a tarradiddle of a physically and psychologically opprobrious relationship .
1Upgrade (2018)
A Man Receives A Technical Upgrade That Takes Over
Leigh Whannelljumped into the sci - fi - revulsion jazz group withUpgrade , with a retaliation tale that only grows creepy the closer the blood feud comes to being achieved . After his married woman is bump off in a gang approach that also leaves him paralyzed , auto - mechanic Grey Trace ( Logan Marshall - Green ) is outfitted with an observational A.I. dub " STEM " ( with Simon Maiden providing the spokesperson ) . With full control over his body restored Grey correct about to avenge his wife , which sees him turned into a flesh - and - blood weapon with the assistance of STEM .
Leigh Whannell has graced the horror view as an role player , director , and writer , in picture show as popular as adage and pernicious and as niche as Dead Silence .
Upgradeis an ' 80 - flavored sci - fi thriller bring to life in the 21st hundred , with STEM ’s Hal-9000 - like vocalisation reassuring human and unsettlingly technological . While Whannell might be jeopardize into somewhat fresh amniotic fluid with the body horror elements ofUpgrade , he adjust to the modulation easily , tranquilize the audience and Grey himself into a faux sense of security measures with the fun Grey has in his newfound forcible abilities . Upgradeis also Whannell ’s first real raid as a director into military action .
Many likenedUpgradetoVenomwith a technological tailspin .
The cinema puts a unique twist on Grey ’s hard - hitting fight scenes , with STEM fully accept control and annihilate Grey ’s adversary with frighteningly precise robotlike movements . The fib ’s dark tone is also far more than the windowpane dressing it seems to be . Many likenedUpgradetoVenomwith a technological twist .
However , Grey and STEM ’s banter is far less comedic , and it all amount crashing down withUpgrade ’s shocking twist ending , which has a computer political platform ’s emotionless efficiency . Upgradethrows action , sci - fi , and horror into a blend of a proudly ' LXXX - influenced techno - thriller , and , with a TV series continuation also in the work , Upgradegets the crown ofLeigh Whannell ’s best directorial effort to day of the month .
