"Wolf Man" (2025)

In Wolf Man (2025), Blake Lovell brings his wife and daughter back to his childhood home after the supposed death of his father. What begins as a journey to reconcile the past soon turns dark. Blake is attacked, infected, and begins to change into something monstrous. His humanity slips away as the beast within rises.

The climax reveals the true source of his curse: his father. The creature Blake must fight is not a stranger but the man who raised him. Generational brokenness takes visible, violent form. The sins of the father have passed to the son, and the only way forward seems to be destruction.

This strikes a deep biblical chord. Scripture speaks often of sin’s consequences reaching across generations. Children inherit patterns of anger, pride, idolatry, and rebellion. Like Blake, we may leave home determined to start anew, yet the curse has a way of finding us. We discover that the monster lives not only in our fathers but in us.

The tragedy of Wolf Man is that Blake cannot save himself. His fight is desperate and costly, but it cannot break the cycle. The film reflects a grim truth: human effort alone cannot free us from the chains of inherited sin. No amount of sacrifice within the family can finally overcome the curse.

Here is where the Christian gospel diverges. Yes, sacrifice is required—but not ours. The hope of Christianity is not that we must destroy ourselves to protect others, but that Christ has entered the battle for us. On the cross, Jesus bore the weight of generational sin and shattered its power. He is the perfect Son who conquers the monster once and for all.

Wolf Man is a haunting story of family, curse, and blood. Yet for Christians, it is also a reminder that the curse does not have the last word. Our Father in heaven has broken the chain. In Him, the beast is defeated, and a new legacy begins.