Leigh Whannell's Wolf Man features a different origin for the werewolf condition at the center of the movie, a disease known as Face of the Wolf.

Though an extended preamble does, however, make you think you’re in for an unpacking of how masculinity acts as its own interior ravager: A boy named ... call “the face of the wolf.” ...

If you see one, ring this bell and shout out Wolf! Wolf! Then we’ll come running with our guns. Can you do that, boy?’ ‘Don’t you worry, Mr Shepherd,’ said the boy. ‘Your sheep are ...

Wolf is portrayed as a sensitive child with prosopagnosia (the inability to distinguish facial characteristics or 'face blindness ... He also encourages the boy to lean into his interest ...