If you're able to cast your mind back far enough to 2008, one of the most polarizing horror films of that year came in the form of The Strangers — a creepy and weirdly nihilistic thriller that followed a crew of masked invaders as they carried out a seemingly random home invasion attack. If that doesn't sound like your idea of a good time, then audiences patently disagreed, and the film went on to take a profit of some $70 million at the box office.

Director Bryan Bertino has been quiet since then, putting his head above the directorial parapet only once for 2014's Mockingbird, but now he returns with The Monster — yet another scary affair which tells the story of a mother, her daughter and a broken down car in the woods. But obviously, the story isn't as simple nor prosaic as that and, going by the clip, something strange is lurking in those woodlands. We're no geniuses, but perhaps the clue is in the title.

Watch the trailer for The Monster above and then check out the preview for War of the Planet of the Apes which has also just dropped.