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Fantastic Fest has produced some truly banger horror projects this year — just look at the reviews coming out of those Terrifier 3 screenings — and Peacock’s new series Teacup is one of them. Having just premiered its first two episodes at the festival, the streamer’s also released a new trailer for the show, which hits our screens in October.
The series, which is adapted from Robert McCammon’s bestselling novel Stinger, isolates a disparate group of people in rural Georgia, where everything seems just fine and dandy as they run their farms and go about their quaint lives. But when a mysterious stranger shows up, wearing a gas mask and warning of an otherworldly threat, things go downhill quickly, with bonds breaking and sanity at stake as they try their best to survive.
Teacup takes McCammon’s novel and not only moves its location from Texas to Georgia, but downsizes its cast as well. While the original novel saw an entire town battling against an unknown threat, Teacup follows only a small group of people, told over the course of “a single harrowing day,” as executive producer Ian McCulloch describes it:
The series is now very much its own thing: a puzzle-box mystery, an edge-of-your-seat thriller, a can’t-but-must look horror story, a family drama, a science fiction epic—of the keyhole variety, of course. But as singular, strange, and surprising as I hope Teacup is, all you need to do is peel away the layers, characters, situations, and mythology and look behind the thrills, chills, hairpin turns and make-you gasp reveals. Do all that and you’ll see, at its heart, Teacup is still very much standing on the shoulders of Stinger. Just as it should.
“Teacup defies easy labels,” agrees executive producer James Wan, who adds another title to his already hefty list of iconic horror titles. “It’s a genre-bending blend of horror, mystery, and drama, with layers that unfold like a captivating puzzle. It goes beyond chills and thrills and holds up a mirror to humanity, exploring the darkness that resides within us all. We hope you enjoy this wild ride as much as we’ve loved creating it!
Teacup’s cast includes Yvonne Strahovski, Scott Speedman, Chaske Spencer, Kathy Baker, Boris McGiver, Caleb Dolden, Emilie Bierre, and Luciano Leroux, with Azrael director E.L. Katz helming the first two episodes. The thirty-minute series premieres on Peacock on October 10, with two episodes releasing weekly. Check out the brand new trailer below:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TlgFApr-VLA%3Fsi%3DoPjE2hx2qxMwYHt9
