By MICHAEL GINGOLD
And it has the creators of STRANGER THINGS as part of the producing team.
The eight-episode Netflix original series SOMETHING VERY BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN premieres on March 26. It was created by BABY REINDEER director Haley Z. Boston, who also serves as showrunner and is an executive producer along with STRANGER THINGS’ Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer and Hilary Leavitt, Weronika Tofilska and frequent Gregg Araki collaborator Andrea Sperling. Tofilska is part of the directing team along with Axelle Carolyn (AMERICAN HORROR STORY, MAYFAIR WITCHES) and Lisa Brühlmann (BLUE MY MIND, SERVANT). Camilla Morrone, Adam DiMarco, Jeff Wilbusch, Karla Crome, Gus Birney, Jennifer Jason Leigh (pictured above), Ted Levine and Sawyer Fraser star; the synopsis: “SOMETHING VERY BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN is an atmospheric horror series set at a wedding, following a bride and groom in the week leading up to their ill-fated nuptials. That’s not a spoiler—just read the title.”
According to Boston in an interview with Tudum.com, the show’s aesthetics fall somewhere between CARRIE and ROSEMARY’S BABY. The tone, she says, 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. 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.’
“I love horror,” she continues. “It’s natural to me, [it’s how] I process my own emotions and feelings and my own understanding of the world. I think horror allows you to explore taboo feelings and take all of these fears and give them some bite.”
