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The reviews for Wolf Man may have been mixed, but there’s something about the Universal Monster movie’s eerie, forested New Zealand landscapes – often filmed at night and strikingly lit by Stefan Duscio’s cinematography – that conjures up the perfect mix of atmospheric and starkly beautiful on screen.

In the run-up to the film clawing its way into cinemas, GamesRadar+ asked Whannell why he thinks Hollywood is suddenly loving monsters again. "It's interesting because these trends, they happen so organically, you're never quite sure why. It's just something in the zeitgeist that seems to claw it into existence," he replies.