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Return to Perfection With the Trailer for Kevin Bacon’s “Tremors” Pilot!
We were recently hit with a double dose of real bad news on the horror TV front, with “Ash vs. Evil Dead” being cancelled by Starz after three seasons and Syfy pulling the plug on “Tremors” before it even got off the ground. The Kevin Bacon-starring, small screen reboot of the franchise filmed its pilot last year, but was not ordered to series.
Vincenzo Natali (Splice) was the director of the pilot episode, which may or may not ever be officially released. The trailer for that pilot, however, has surfaced over on Vimeo.
The series was set to pick up 25 years after the killer Graboid worms nearly destroyed the Nevada town of Perfection. Bacon was to reprise the role of Valentine McKee, who beat the sandworms once and would attempt to do it again; but first he’d have to deal with age, alcohol and a delusional hero complex.
The trailer presents what looks to be one seriously fun show, sort of an “Ash vs. Evil Dead” for the Tremors franchise. An ordinary hero, decades after his first brush with evil, is forced to battle the same small town evil once again; seeing Bacon play an older Val McKee, like seeing Bruce Campbell as an older Ash, no doubt would’ve been a real treat.
Ah, what could have been…
AMC’s horror series “The Terror” wrapped its third season last month, but plans are already in motion for season four.
Executive producer David W. Zucker has confirmed that “The Terror” Season 4 is moving forward in a new chat with ScreenRant, revealing that they’ve “just closed the deal on the book we’re gonna develop next” for the series.
Which novel they’re adapting remains shrouded in secrecy at this stage, however.
That might not seem like much to go on at this stage, but the second season was an original story. Furthermore, there was a lengthy gap between seasons two and three, causing many to speculate that the third season would be the anthology series’ last. Unlike its first two, Season 3 shifted from airing on AMC to a dual Shudder and AMC+ weekly release plan, with neither streamer revealing viewership numbers.
So not only is this confirmation that the series is moving forward, but it won’t be another six years before we see Season 4.
The first season of the supernatural drama, based on Dan Simmons’ novel and aired in 2018, was set on the frigid decks of a Victorian Era sailing ship following a doomed course, while season two, “The Terror: Infamy,” which premiered in August 2019, centered on a malevolent, shape-shifting force that is locked up with prisoners in a Japanese internment camp.
Season 3, “The Terror: Devil in Silver,” tells the story of 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 the people society would rather forget. There, he must contend with patients who work against him, doctors who harbor grim secrets, and perhaps even the very Devil himself.
Dan Stevens (The Guest, Abigail) stars alongside Judith Light, CCH Pounder, Aasif Mandvi, John Benjamin Hickey, Stephen Root, Michael Aronov, Marin Ireland, Chinaza Uche, Hampton Fluker, Hayward Leach, and Philip Ettinger.
The six-episode new season is based on Victor LaValle’s novel, The Devil in Silver.