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.

Wolf Man is the next instalment in arguably the oldest franchise in cinema history. Universal Monsters, which evolved through the silent era, features iconic characters like Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy and,