Queue up Nirvana’s “All Apologies” because that’s most of what you’ll hear in Netflix‘s teaser trailer for Something Very Bad is Going to Happen, the upcoming supernatural horror series from the Duffer Brothers. This creepy-looking project comes from series creator and showrunner Haley Z. Boston, with Stranger Things duo Matt and Ross Duffer, executive producing.
The vibes of today’s teaser trailer are hostile
The escalating teaser paints a dark picture of the eight-episode horror series, which centers on an “ill-fated” couple who are about to be married. Everyone in the trailer feels the need to apologize for something, and as the tension mounts, those apologies increase in sincerity and severity. Before long, couples are tearing each other’s clothes off, running through the woods, and engaging in half-hearted toasts. The vibes are disturbing, the lighting is almost non-existent, and is that a scarecrow catching fire? It’s difficult to tell. As I said, it’s dark.
Boston on her approach to horror
“I love horror. It’s natural to me, [it’s how] I process my own emotions and feelings and my own understanding of the world,” Boston told Tudum. “I think horror allows you to explore taboo feelings and take all of these fears and give them some bite.”
The show isn’t about jump scares. Instead, as Boston puts it, the tone is “unsettling, getting-under-your-skin dread,” mixed with character-driven storytelling. “I love to explore characters. I think sometimes that’s lacking in the horror genre,” she says. “My natural approach is from a place of character and dialogue and humor and then infusing that with unsettling horror … I’m like, ‘I want to be unsettled. I want to be freaked out.'”
What’s the series about?
Spanning a week, the series follows Rachel and Nicky in the lead-up to their wedding. We can’t reveal too much else, but, as Boston puts it, the tone and visuals fall somewhere between Carrie and Rosemary’s Baby — with threads of humor, absurdity, tension, and paranoia. She also pulled inspiration from her own parents, who have a decades-long, loving marriage.
Who stars in Something Very Bad is Going to Happen?
Something Very Bad is Going to Happen stars Camila Morrone (Daisy Jones & The Six, The Night Manager) as Rachel, Adam DiMarco (The White Lotus, Overcompensating) as Nicky, Jennifer Jason Leigh (Fargo, Annihilation) as Victoria, Ted Levine (Monk, Big Sky) as Boris, Gus Birney (Shining Vale) as Portia, Jeff Wilbusch (Unorthodox, Oslo) as Jules, Karla Crome (The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde, Lazarus) as Nell, Sawyer Fraser (The Good Doctor) as Jude, and Zlatko Burić (Triangle of Sadness).
Weddings can be a nightmare
Woof! This trailer is creeping me out. It looks as if many of the wedding guests have come down with the Smile syndrome. I’ve never been to a “nightmare wedding,” but I’ve been to at least one that was straight-up terrible. I don’t get into specifics, but let’s say the DJ sucked, the Maid of Honor (a scorned sister-in-law) embarrassed the happy couple during a toast, and the bar was closed! Guests who stayed at the hotel kept sneaking off to their rooms to pound a beer and then come back down to the party. Our whole table was miserable. I like what I’m seeing from the Something Very Bad is Going to Happen teaser trailer, and I look forward to learning more as we get closer to the project’s March 26 premiere.
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