Dark creators making a horror show about migrants coming to America for Netflix
Aux Features NetflixNetflix shepherded the German sci-fi thriller Dark to American audiences, turning a very strange show that likely wouldn’t have turned many heads outside of its native country into a global hit. The show’s success resulted in a second season, as well as an overall deal between Netflix and creators Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar. Now, the fruits of that deal are beginning to sprout.
Birth.Movies.Death reports that Friese and bo Odar are making another horror series for Netflix, this one being a period horror story following European migrants on their way to America in 1899. The tale unfolds on a steamship that discovers another ship adrift in the ocean, and, according to Netflix, “what they find on board will turn their passage to the promised land into a horrifying nightmare.”
The setting and timeline evokes AMC’s recent The Terror, but the themes are plucked right from today’s political landscape, where right-wing pundits the world over bloviate about the need to secure borders against the “very bad people” that want to “infiltrate” our way of life. According to a statement from the creators, the show centers around “the question of what unites us and what divides us. And how fear can be a trigger for the latter.”
As tends to often be the case with sensitive, divisive issues, horror is the perfect vessel for which to explore them.
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Can’t they get Netflix anywhere?
They mean if the show didn’t get picked up by Netflix then it wouldn’t have been shown outside of Germany.
Re-read the headline. I was about to make the jokey comment.
I really liked Dark and I also enjoy the “haunted house at sea” type story, so I’ll be looking forward to this.
It’s easy to make something set in the 1800s supercreepy, but a real challenge would be to set this in the 1950s and have everyone talk like Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Hudsucker Proxy.
Nothing’s scarier than a room filled with Victorian/Edwardian-era dolls. By far the most frightening part of the film version of The Woman in Black
I liked Dark until the final two episodes… I didn’t feel excited or shocked when the season revelations were shown, it was pretty obvious from a mile away, and the final scene just screamed angst and edgy hunger games… at least for me
Nothing is worse than the friend that keeps bringing up the subtitled Netflix show and trying to make it a thing.Also, I am their leader! Dark is sooooooooo good you guys don’t start Bodyguard get on Dark already! Oh you just had it on while you were making dinner? IT’S NOT THAT KIND OF SHOW YOU HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION THOMAS.
I admittedly liked Dark and loved Babylon Berlin. But subtitled shows aren’t for everyone. They are, however, great for watching at a low volume on your tablet while your toddler naps on your lap lol.
It must suck to resent people who care about things.
dark was good. i will watch this. that is all.
“horror show about migrants coming to America”so this is a documentary set in Texas?
*America
The setting and timeline don’t evoke “The Terror” so much as the much-older ‘immigration by ship’ section of “Dracula” – which is, actually, an interesting re-focus.