If you're a horror fan with an Apple TV+ subscription, you simply must be watching Servant, an ickily slow-burning psychological horror series from executive producer/director M. Night Shyamalan and writer/creator Tony Basgallop (What Remains). In artfully composed half-hour episodes, Servant tells the tale of parents Dorothy and Sean Turner (Lauren Ambrose and Toby Kebbell) who've recently, tragically lost a child. To cope, Dorothy takes care of an eerily lifelike doll, pretending it's her real baby. And when this coping mechanism extends as far as hiring a real-life nanny (Nell Tiger Free), things …

Horror on television is no easy task. Horror is all about tone and tension and sustaining these is challenging in a long-form narrative, which can also be a tough sell for networks and audiences. Though we haven’t had as many horror shows as we have today – there are three Stephen King adaptations airing right now! – these are mostly confined to streaming where there are fewer restrictions on the creators. This is all to say, it is both shocking and refreshing to see a show embrace the horror genre and push the boundaries of what network TV can do …

From creator/writer Craig Mazin and director Johan Renck, the five-part HBO mini-series Chernobyl explores how the 1986 nuclear accident become one of the worst human-made catastrophes in history. After the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, Soviet Union suffered a massive explosion that released radioactive material across Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, and as far as Scandinavia and western Europe, countless brave men and women sacrificed their own lives, both knowingly and unknowingly, in an attempt to save Europe from unimaginable disaster. During this 1-on-1 phone interview with Collider, executive producer Craig Mazin talked about …

Sony Pictures has released a new Brightburn trailer. Produced by James Gunn and written by Mark Gunn and Brian Gunn, director David Yarovesky steps in to helm what the studio is calling “a startling, subversive take on a radical new genre.” Elizabeth Banks stars as a mother who discovers an extraterrestrial child (Jackson A. Dunn) who has crash-landed on Earth, much like DC’s resident Kryptonian. I’m torn on what I’ve seen of Brightburn thus far. On the one hand, using the superhero genre for horror is an interesting mashup. It’s one of the reasons I’… The post New ‘Brightburn’ Trailer Turns Superman’s Origin into a Horror Show appeared first on Collider.