Overview
- Focus Features released the film’s first official theatrical poster that depicts Aaron Taylor‑Johnson’s nameless farmer in the middle of a hair‑raising transformation into a lycanthrope.
- The film is set in 13th‑century England and stars Lily‑Rose Depp as the emotional center and Willem Dafoe as a hunter who arrives to investigate the beast.
- Robert Eggers has framed Werwulf as a return to older folklore that deliberately avoids standard werewolf tropes such as bite-transmission scenes and silver bullets.
- The poster follows the first trailer in a deliberate marketing push that keeps the fully formed creature unseen and builds anticipation for the film’s December theatrical release.
- Eggers’ history of mood-driven, practical-effects horror informs the film’s visual aims and the poster’s choice to reveal only a partial transformation signals a focus on atmosphere and mystery rather than a final creature reveal.