Harry Potter ja Azkabanin vanki -elokuvan eli Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabanin ohjaaja Alfonso Cuarón on sitä mieltä, että sarjan kolmas elokuva oli kauhua siinä missä sitä film noiriakin.
Alfonso Cuarónin mukaan, ja tiedon välitti Games Radar, kirjan luettuaan kaksi asiaa jäivät mieleen: kauhun tunnelma ja juurikin se noir.
Olihan se leffa lapsikatsojille ainakin melkoinen kokemus.
"In a way, when I was doing it, the model was more of the German cinema at the end of the silent era, and the transition into the talkies, like Fritz Lang to Murnau. You can see that some of Fritz Lang's films are kind of noir, but, at the same time, they have kind of horror elements to them. And, more importantly, particularly with Fritz Lang, through the genre, he was trying to convey - or just to project - the anxieties of his time. I think that what J.K. Rowling did with Potter, it was a reference of our times, of human behaviour."
