It’s been 13 years since horror master John Carpenter has blessed the world with a new directorial project, but the icon behind movies like “Halloween,” “Escape From New York,” and “The Thing” is finally returning to our screens this autumn — with a documentary-like TV horror series.
“John Carpenter’s Suburban Screams” will feature six nerve-shredding true stories retold by those who experienced them, and will couple the testimony with dramatic (and decidedly scary-looking) visual retellings of the story.
The show is also set to include archival footage and news clips.Carpenter is only set to direct one of the six episodes of “Suburban Screams,” but he’s involved in the project in other ways, lending his considerable talents as a composer to its soundtrack and executive producing the Peacock project.
The show sounds like it will meet at the intersection of reality and horror movie sensibilities, which could be the perfect recipe for some great scares.
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