The Walking Dead isn’t the powerhouse appointment viewing show it once was. With ratings falling and cast members departing, you might think that AMC would be winding things down. But even diminished, the show does well for its time slot, and AMC is betting that fans will want a lot more zombie content in the future. They’re even readying an as-yet-untitled show focusing on the kids who have come of age in the zombie apocalypse, in areas not explored on either The Walking Dead or Fear the Walking Dead.
Now, AMC has dropped a teaser for that show, featuring what I assume to be some of the show’s young cast members intoning gravely about entering “a new world of The Walking Dead“:
“What if you lived in a world of safety and you decided to leave?” Well, that seems like a silly thing to do. But seriously, if AMC wants to renew interest in the franchise (cause it’s a franchise now — the one kid even says “Walking Dead universe”), making a show packed with teens and tweens is probably an effective, if somewhat cynical, way to do it. Hook ’em on zombies when they’re young!
There are other, meatier trailers making the rounds, as well, like this one for the second season of Mindhunter, Netflix’s true crime serial killer drama. As hinted in season 1, it looks like the BTK killer will play a big role when the show returns on August 16:
In more cerebral horror, Robert Eggers is readying his follow-up to the intense, baroque The Witch. His new movie, The Lighthouse, stars Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe as lighthouse keepers on a mysterious New England island in the late 19th century. I don’t know much more about the plot than that, and I’d like to keep that way. The heavy imagery takes you away:
Finally, this next movie — Tigers Are Not Afraid — has been getting some buzz thanks to high-profile boosters like Stephen King, Neil Gaiman and Guillermo del Toro. It’s about a young girl who loses her mother in a drug war and takes up with other orphans on the streets in Mexico. They use fantasy to cope with their grim reality, but soon enough run into something genuinely supernatural:
Tigers Are Not Afraid will land in theaters on August 23 and drop on the Shudder streaming service in September. Should you see it?
Whatever you say, Mr. King.
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