Werwulf is drawing 39x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Werwulf is an upcoming period gothic folk horror film directed by Robert Eggers, who co-wrote the script with Sjón. The film stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Willem Dafoe, and Lily-Rose Depp. Set in 13th-century England and entirely spoken in Middle English, the film follows a town that is haunted by a beast that threatens the safety of a man and his family.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 14 edits to this article on 2026-06-29, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Cast
• Filming
• Release

What changed that day

The article lost 91 characters on balance that day. The largest single addition was 193 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-06-29 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.

How this was measured

Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.