Review: "Wolfman": Bloody reboot of a horror classic    •
Article by: COLIN COVERT , Star Tribune   • Updated: February
12, 2010 - 3:33 PM  A new version starring Benicio Del Toro adds
modern subtext.  A lavish coffee table book of a horror film,
"The Wolfman" features visuals so beautifully planned and
executed that each frame begs to be lingered over and savored.
The film is set in rural Victorian England in a fall where the
skies are the color of lead, the woods exude a primal spookiness
and the harvest moon blazes like the lantern of an onrushing
train. The editing moves at a stately pace, evoking an agonizing
sense of dread.  Joe Johnston, best known for light crowd-
pleasers like "Jumanji" and "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids," aims for
grim gravitas here, as in Francis Ford Coppola's "Dracula" and
Kenneth Branagh's "Frankenstein." When the blood begins to flow
-- fly, actually -- the gruesome tableaux are worthy of an art
gallery slide show. Impaling on an iron fence, a white swanlike
neck bisected by a straig