AMC+ and Shudder’s sleeper horror series is dropping maybe its most high-profile season yet in May, with the reliably great Dan Stevens starring in a six-episode adaptation of Victor LaVelle‘s acclaimed novel, Devil in Silver.
With Ridley Scott back to executive produce, this season of The Terror has LaVelle (The Changeling) himself aboard as co-writer and co-showrunner with Chris Cantwell (Halt and Catch Fire). Karyn Kusama (Yellowjackets, Jennifer’s Body) directs the first two episodes.
If you haven’t read the book, you may be wondering: where will The Terror go next after its first season, which followed Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated polar expedition, and its second, which was set in a California Japanese internment camp during World War II? Well, feast your eyes on this trailer, which gives us Stevens negotiating a psychiatric hospital filled with very bad things, both natural and supernatural.
Stevens (Abigail, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Solar Opposites, Legion, Downton Abbey) also executive produces. According to a press release, he plays Pepper, “a working-class moving man who, through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital—an institution filled with those society would rather forget. There, he must contend with patients working against him, doctors harboring grim secrets, and perhaps even the Devil himself. As Pepper navigates a hellscape where nothing is as it seems, he finds that the only path to freedom is to face the entity which thrives on the suffering within New Hyde’s walls—but doing so may prove that the worst demons of all live inside him.”
The rest of the cast includes Judith Light (Before), Aasif Mandvi (Evil), and Stephen Root (Barry), as well as Hampton Fluker, CCH Pounder, b, Chinaza Uche, Hayward Leach, John Benjamin Hickey, Michael Aronov, Philip Ettinger, and Marin Ireland.
The Terror: Devil in Silver premieres May 7 on AMC+ and Shudder and will have a weekly rollout; it will also hit AMC later this year.
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