Men (2022) was filmed in the United Kingdom, specifically St Katharine Docks, London, and parts of Gloucestershire, including Withington, standing in for Cotson; and a tunnel in The Forest of Dean.
Harper's first act upon reaching the holiday house is to pick an apple from the tree in the garden and eat it, with may remind some viewers of Eve, though the Bible never says Eve ate an apple. Nevertheless, Geoffrey admonishes her for eating "forbidden fruit." The apple tree is frequently seen through the rest of the film.
Sonoya Mizuno has a cameo as the police operator. Mizuno previously appeared in Alex Garland's Ex Machina (2014) and Annihilation (2018).
The outdoors are always presented in bright vivid greens, as befitting the English countryside. It also underscores the supernatural forces lurking quietly beneath the surface.
The majority of Alex Garland's previous projects are in the science-fiction genre (though frequently overlapping with the horror or thriller genres). Men (2022) is a folk horror film with explicitly supernatural threats.