Hulu has renewed Blumhouse's horror anthology series of fright flicks INTO THE DARK for a second season. More specifically, Hulu has ordered nine more episodes of the monthly feature-length installments which offer a twisted take on an American holiday or tradition on top of the 15 episodes it previously greenlit, ensuring the series will remain in production through September 2020.
Blumhouse TV co-presidents Marci Wiseman says:
What we want to replicate is the kind of filmmaker-driven vision for the films. We’ve brought Hulu filmmakers who are vision first, script later, and they have been unbelievable partners in letting us build this collection. The idea is diversity of entertainment within the collection rather than sameness. We lean into the fact that it’s a fun experience to come every month and you don’t quite know what’s coming, rather than seeing something expected.
Truthfully I've never seen an episode of the series. I tried to watch Sophia Takal's NEW YEAR, NEW YOU sometime recently but I guess something stopped me halfway through and I forgot all about finishing it until right this moment. Maybe I'll get to finishing it tonight.
The last episode to air was director Mike Gan's SCHOOL SPIRIT. Gan wrote the screenplay with Patrick Casey and Josh Miller and the film stars Corey Fogelmanis, Annie Q, Jessi Case, Julian Works, Philip Labes, and Hugo Armstrong. Check out the trailer below. It followed:
a group of social outcasts who are stuck in weekend detention and then confronted by the school’s legendary hauntings.
Up next is Hannah Macpherson's Daughter's Day entry PURE, which follows
Several teen girls at a Purity Retreat who participate in a secret ritual, and then start to see a supernatural entity. The girls then need to focus on the demon that they have unleashed, as well as their fathers' expectations.
Macpherson wrote the episode's script based on a story by Paul Fischer and Paul Davis. The episode stars Jahkara Smith, McKaley Miller, Scott Porter, Annalisa Cochrane, Ciara Bravo, Jim Klock, and T.C. Carter. It hits Hulu on September 6, 2019.