Comic-Con Trailers: Chucky, Day of the Dead, Dexter, The Walking Dead

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

A good number of genre trailers came out of the Comic-Con@Home event over the weekend, and we have gathered four of them together here in this article. Embedded above we have the trailer for the show that may have the most hype around it at the moment, Chucky, the TV series continuation of the Child’s Play franchise that has Brad Dourif once again providing the voice of Chucky the killer doll.

Don Mancini, who has written every Child’s Play film (except for the remake) and directed a few of them, developed Chucky with producer David Kirschner. Mancini also directed the first episode. The show’s synopsis:

After a vintage Chucky doll turns up at a suburban yard sale, an idyllic American town is thrown into chaos as a series of horrifying murders begin to expose the town’s hypocrisies and secrets. Meanwhile, the arrival of enemies and allies from Chucky’s past threatens to expose the truth behind the killings, as well as the demon doll’s untold origins as a seemingly ordinary child who somehow became this notorious monster.

In addition to Brad Dourif, the cast includes Zackary Arthur, Devon Sawa, Fiona Dourif, Jennifer Tilly, Bjorgvin Arnarson, Jacob Breedon, Alex Vincent, Lexa Doig, Teo Briones, Christine Elise, David Kohlsmith, Alyvia Alyn Lind, and Lind’s real-life mother Barbara Alyn Woods.

The first season of Chucky will consist of 8 episodes, which will air on both Syfy and USA Network. The premiere date is October 12th.

Also coming to Syfy in October is a series based on George A. Romero’s 1985 film Day of the Dead, which the network has ordered 10 episodes of. Written by showrunners Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas, the Day of the Dead series tells the story of 

six strangers trying to survive the first 24 hours of an undead invasion. This ode to Romero’s famous flesh-eaters reminds us that sometimes all it takes to bring people together is a horde of hungry zombies trying to rip them apart.

Keenan Tracey, Daniel Doheny, Natalie Malaika, Morgan Holmstrom, and Kristy Dinsmore star. Steven Kostanski (Leprechaun Returns, Psycho Goreman) directed four of the ten episodes.

And here’s a trailer for the limited series revival of Showtime’s Dexter, which is now officially titled Dexter: New Blood and will begin airing on November 7th. Starring Michael C. Hall as Dexter, New Blood is 

set 10 years after Dexter Morgan went missing in the eye of Hurricane Laura. The revival sees the character now living under an assumed name in a world away from Miami.

Also in the cast are Jennifer Carpenter, John Lithgow, Clancy Brown, Jamie Chung, Julia Jones, Johnny Sequoyah, Alano Miller, Michael Cyril Creighton, Oscar Wahlberg, and Jack Alcott.

The last trailer is embedded below, and it’s for the first batch of episodes in AMC’s The Walking Dead season 11, the show’s final season. This trailer is geo-blocked, because that’s how AMC likes to do things. 

The Walking Dead season 11 begins airing on August 22nd and will consist of 24 episodes, which look likely to be broken up into three blocks of 8. Here are the synopses for the first two episodes of the season: 

Episode 11.01: “Acheron: Part I”
Director: Kevin Dowling
Writers: Angela Kang and Jim Barnes

Returning to Alexandria from a critical food mission, the group realizes it isn’t enough. Maggie proposes a new plan, potentially a suicide mission. What choice do they have? They must find more food for all their people in order to survive and efficiently rebuild Alexandria. If they don’t, Alexandria falls, taking them down with it. Once on the road, a violent storm erupts forcing them underground into a subway tunnel. As nerves fray and suspicions increase, chaos ensues. The terror is relentless as our people get a glimpse of what Maggie and her group endured prior to returning to Alexandria. Meanwhile, those captured by the strange soldiers are relocated to another undisclosed location.

Episode 11.02: “Acheron: Part II”
Director: Kevin Dowling
Writers: Angela Kang and Jim Barnes

The group discovers a member did not make it to safety inside the subway car. Surrounded by walkers, going back out into the tunnel to search is a guaranteed death wish. All eyes are on Negan as the rule of survival shifts. It is no longer No Man Left Behind. The motto now is We Keep Going. With very little ammo and energy remaining, the group must ready themselves as the walkers have found a way inside the subway train. Meanwhile, Daryl is in his own intense hellish situation trying to find Dog and finding more than he expected; and Yumiko challenges the process at the Commonwealth outpost, which threatens her future and that of Eugene, Ezekiel, and Princess.

The show stars returning cast members Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Lauren Cohan, Cailey Fleming, Josh McDermitt, Christian Serratos, Seth Gilliam, Ross Marquand, Khary Payton, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Nadia Hilker, Lauren Ridloff, Cooper Andrews, Callan McAuliffe, Eleanor Matsuura, and Cassady McClincy. They are being joined by new additions Margot Bingham as Stephanie and Michael James Shaw as Mercer.