Netflix Teases New Series From Tim Burton, Mike Flanagan, And Guillermo del Toro For Geeked Week
Horror fans, rejoice. Netflix released the first look at three of the most exciting and scary projects to come from acclaimed directors Tim Burton, Guillermo del Toro, and Mike Flanagan as part of the platform's Geeked Week.
Geeked Week is a five-day virtual event that runs from June 6 to June 10 and celebrates Netflix's genre entertainment with cast interviews, sneak peeks, and teaser trailers from various series, films, and games. On this occasion, the streamer teased three separate upcoming horror series: Wednesday from Burton, The Midnight Club from Flanagan, and Cabinet of Curiosities from del Toro.
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Wednesday is a coming-of-age horror comedy that centers around the precocious young daughter of the Addams family, played by Jenna Ortega (Scream, X). The short trailer shows Ortega's Wednesday Addams braiding her hair before walking towards the camera as Thing (the family's disembodied hand-servant) climbs to her shoulder. The pair then do the iconic finger-snap from the original series theme song. In addition to Ortega, Wednesday, which arrives on Netflix later this year, stars Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzmán, and Addams Family movie vet Christina Ricci (who famously portrayed the character in the 1991 film adaptation).
Meanwhile, the sneak peek at The Midnight Club shows several people in a creepy Victorian home raising their glasses and toasting to those «seen or unseen, here but not here» as thunder is heard in the background. The series, created by Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House) and based on a 1994 novel by Christopher Pike, follows a group of seven young adults living in a hospice for the terminally ill. The group, who call themselves The Midnight Club, make
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