In 1891 Shakespearean actor Lawrence Talbot, returns home after receiving a letter from his brother Ben’s fiancée Gwen Conliffe informing him of Ben’s disappearance.  When he arrives it is to learn that Ben’s body had already been found  – horribly mutilated. Is it the gypsies? A wild animal? Or is this a similar murder to one years earlier, allegedly committed by a werewolf? Lawrence must face his childhood demons, his estranged father, his brother’s grieving fiancee and Inspector Francis Aberline of Scotland Yard. But then the gypsy encampment is attacked by the beast and Lawrence learns there are far worse fates than death…Also stars Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving and Geraldine Chaplin.