Having made a name for himself helming The Hallow before being tasked with directing Warner Bros' big-budget The Conjuring spin-off The Nun, Corin Hardy says it was "exciting" returning to his original horror roots with new supernatural flick Whistle.
"It wasn't so much relief in that sense," the filmmaker tells GamesRadar+, when we ask whether it was refreshing to let loose creatively again, having previously worked on a franchise with an established tone and visual style. "I'm always up for original stories, and particularly ones with new mythologies like. There were three things that really stood out [with Whistle]. One was the mythology, which had a sort of a chill factor to it but also a deepness in terms of contemplating mortality and what your death would be.
