Wolf Man” is here to point out a grisly beast could lie in all of us. We just need a few altering moments to let it go.

Ancient wolves may have self-domesticated by staying near humans for food scraps, gradually evolving into early dogs.

But Rick McIntyre knows better. He’s a wolf behaviorist who’s accumulated more than 100,000 sightings of wolves in the wild.

That’s the lesson we learn from “Wolf Man,” a misguided remake of a Universal horror classic. Christopher Abbott stars as the lucky son – a down-on-his-luck creator who gets the keys to ...