A Creepy Storm’s a-Brewing in Teacup’s New Trailer

We’re 2 weeks distant from October, and you cognize what that means: horror time. While Alien: Romulus and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice are cleaning up successful theaters, there’s immoderate scary worldly coming to TV, and Peacock’s hoping you’ll tune successful for its caller show, Teacup.

Created by Ian McCulloch (Yellowstone) and enforcement produced by Conjuring head James Wan, the bid stars Yvonne Strahovski and Scott Speedman arsenic a joined mates surviving connected an isolated ranch successful agrarian Georgia. But things are starting to get a small weird: the animals are spooked, their young lad goes missing, and aft his return, a mysterious antheral successful a state disguise draws a enactment to cordon disconnected the ranch. And according to the kid, some thing is coming that the ranchers request to support themselves against. Even worse, if they transverse that threshold the masked antheral makes…well, it seems similar atrocious things are gonna happen.

Teacup is inspired by Robert McCammon’s 1988 novel Stinger, which McCulloch called a “no-holds-barred, gargantuan spectacle of a novel.” At Comic-Con this past July, helium explained however Wan’s accumulation institution Atomic Monster approached him astir adapting Stinger for TV, and contempt being much geared toward “large stories told done tiny lenses” (think Signs and A Quiet Place), the publication “wouldn’t permission maine alone. I conscionable couldn’t halt reasoning astir its razor-sharp premise, however it unfolds implicit the people of a azygous harrowing day. […] That’s erstwhile the flash-bang light-bulb thought hit.”

Also starring Chaske Spencer, Kathy Baker, and Boris McGiver, Peacock volition premiere Teacup’s first 2 episodes connected October 10, followed by 2 episodes per week until it wraps connected Halloween.

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