I tend to assume it has more to do with the outfit than the surroundings, but when you think about it, that's not necessarily
true in a visual medium.
In terms of general direction: Gelb seems competently adept at telling a
story in the visual medium - and then, at creating good scares and horror using visual manipulation as his tool.
First, as many before me have pointed out, Lewis opposed the idea of his anthropomorphic (human - like) animals being taken out their narrative context and
presented in a visual medium.