‘Werewolf By Night’
Disney+’s Werewolf By Night is the MCU’s first foray into what they’re calling “Special Presentations” and, boy, does it make us want to see more. The hour-long special, directed by composer Michael Giacchino, pays homage to the monster movies of yesteryear, albeit in a very Marvel way. Gael Garcia Bernal plays Jack Russell, a mysterious man who finds himself at a sacred party of hunters. These cold-blooded monster killers are going to battle it out in a ceremonial hunt to see who will inherit Ulysses Bloodstone’s magical namesake heirloom, the Bloodstone. Also crashing this party? Ulysses’s estranged daughter Elsa (Laura Donnelly) who wants the gem for her own. Who wins? Who dies? Who gets the Bloodstone? The question you should be asking is: who is the real monster in this story? And, yes, spoiler, there is a werewolf.