After sending James Franco to stop JFK's assassination in 11.22.63, J.J. Abrams and Stephen King will re-team for Hulu's new horror anthology, Castle Rock. Expect nightmarish situations to crop up in this fictional Maine town that has been the setting for many a King story.
The teaser immediately establishes that this is one twilight zone you don't want to visit. Titles of King's books are flashed on the screen while lines draw a map of Castle Rock. What makes the whole thing really chilling are the background sounds of women screaming, 911 calls being made, children being told to hide, warnings about strange things lurking in the dark, and cackles of evil laughter.
The Hollywood Reporter says that each episode will feature characters in one Maine area grappling with one horror storyline. That episode will then be woven into the next until perhaps an overall picture is drawn.
While no other information such as episode count and launch date has been released by Hulu and Warner Brothers Television, we can probably imagine some of the stories from the titles that had been flashed in the teaser: the town under vampire assault in Salem's Lot or the demon-owned museum in Needful Things.
King's works have always been present in our mainstream media, with popular books like The Dark Tower and It being made into movies.
King first used Castle Rock, Maine in his 1979 novel The Dead Zone where a young, misunderstood psychic found himself wrestling with visions which his friends and a lot of people didn't believe. The Dead Zone was made into a movie in 1983 starring Christopher Walken as the psychic and Martin Sheen as the warmongering U.S. President.
Stephen King fans and other horror buffs will soon sit down weekly to experience those visions as only the horror master can write them. With J.J. Abrams in the executive producer's chair, that anthology will give us more of those visions in the seasons to come.
Catch the teaser of Castle Rock below.
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