Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Nov 12, 2019 18:02:14 GMT -5
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So we have film/TV revivals for Point Horror, Fear Street, Goosebumps, Are You Afraid of the Dark and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
At this point, I can't wait for a new Bone Chillers TV show.
20th Century Fox announced its Fear Street film adaptation earlier this year, and now here comes with HBO—an arm of Fox competitor WarnerMedia—with its own stab at modernizing the teen horror of yesteryear. Variety reports that Point Horror—the YA horror anthology that helped launch the careers of R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike, Diane Hoh, and Caroline B. Cooney back in the early ‘90s—is being adapted into a series for HBO Max.
Lionsgate Television and Picturestart are rather hilariously rebranding it as Point Fear, and it will reportedly unfold as an “anthology series that exposes the horrors of being a teenager.” As such, here’s hoping they recruit Bo Burnham for an episode—each, Variety reports, will be inspired by one of the books in the series. That’s exciting—do A. Bates’ Party Line!—but perhaps disappointing for those wanting to spend a semester in Hoh’s ongoing Nightmare Hall series.
Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu is reportedly attached to direct and, along with Stine, executive produce. Fingers crossed nobody LOSES THEIR HEADS in the process.
Lionsgate Television and Picturestart are rather hilariously rebranding it as Point Fear, and it will reportedly unfold as an “anthology series that exposes the horrors of being a teenager.” As such, here’s hoping they recruit Bo Burnham for an episode—each, Variety reports, will be inspired by one of the books in the series. That’s exciting—do A. Bates’ Party Line!—but perhaps disappointing for those wanting to spend a semester in Hoh’s ongoing Nightmare Hall series.
Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu is reportedly attached to direct and, along with Stine, executive produce. Fingers crossed nobody LOSES THEIR HEADS in the process.
So we have film/TV revivals for Point Horror, Fear Street, Goosebumps, Are You Afraid of the Dark and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
At this point, I can't wait for a new Bone Chillers TV show.
