The trailer for Teacup, a new series from producer James Wan and showrunner Ian McCulloch (Chicago Fire), packs a lot of not-uncommon horror elements into one small package. The animals are freaked out. The woods gets real creepy. Something is definitely in the basement. There’s a man in a gas mask who somehow comes across like a horrifying low-effort clown. A little kid comes bearing terrifying messages. And then there’s the matter of the blue line that the various characters must not cross. When someone does cross it—accidentally—we don’t see what happens. But we absolutely hear it.
Teacup is based on Robert McCammon’s bestselling 1998 novel Stinger, and if you would like to have a better idea what is happening in the series adaptation, the novel’s synopsis will certainly tell you. But the series seems to want to play it a little vague and extra horrifying—and quirky, too, with a gentle Harry Nilsson song as the trailer’s soundtrack. So we’ll allow them their vagueness for now. The synopsis says only, “Teacup follows a disparate group of people in rural Georgia who must come together in the face of a mysterious threat in order to survive.”
The disparate group of people includes Scott Speedman (Underworld), Yvonne Strahovski (The Handmaid’s Tale), Kathy Baker (Picket Fences), Rob Morgan (Stranger Things), Chaske Spencer (The Twilight Saga), and Boris McGiver (Evil).
Teacup will release with two episodes a week starting October 10th on Peacock.
