20 Horror Movie Box Office Bombs EVERYONE Saw Coming

Back to another reimagining of a classic story here, this time being Leigh Whannell's take on The Wolf Man. As one of the Universal monsters, there's no scarcity of Wolf Man stories or appearances across the cinematic landscape, and so you could argue that, being only 15 years removed from Benicio del Toro and Joe Johnston's effort, there was really no need for another just yet.

However, Whannell was coming off the back of a huge box office win, bringing in $144 million with The Invisible Man against a budget of just $7 million, which gave the studio more than enough belief that a similar thing could happen with Wolf Man.

These were two very different situations, unfortunately. Wolf Man's aesthetic had been the subject of much derision across the internet in the build to its release, and the reviews also didn't help at all.

While aggregator sites certainly aren't the be-all and end-all for a film's quality, they can often persuade the casual movie-goer either for or against spending their hard-earned money at the cinema. As soon as middling to low scores on the likes of Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic dropped, it was the final nail in the coffin. Wolf Man's $34 million intake wouldn't have been so bad if the budget had remained as small as that of The Invisible Man, but with the production inflated to $25 million this time around, it became a problem.