Television networks and streaming services are finally realizing that horror brings in viewers. That’s why this upcoming television season you’ll be seeing a lot of scary stuff on the small screen. Of course, fan favorites like American Horror Story will be back, but there’s going to be a lot of new programming as well. Fox will be launching a television remake of one of the most well-known horror films of all time, The Exorcist . And following in Fox’s footsteps, it was announced on Wednesday that the lesser-known Pop will be putting out a remake of a lesser-known horror series, Wolf Creek.
Wolf Creek was released in 2005 with a budget of only $1 million. The visually disturbing and horrifying Aussie film about a group of backpackers who are hunted down by a serial killer in the Outback ended up being a darling at Sundance over a decade ago. Director and writer Greg McLean followed up with Wolf Creek 2 in 2013, but the film was a financial failure. McLean and original Wolf Creek bad guy, John Jarrett have worked on the television adaptation which was originally aired on Australia’s VOD service Stan with Jarrett reprising his role as Mick Taylor. Pop, the struggling network which is in dire need for more cutting edge content said that Wolf Creek is about “a 19-year-old girl named Eve Thorogood who travels to the Australian Outback to avenge her family’s murders at the hands of a psychopath.” Vampire Academy’s Lucy Fry stars as Eve. The series will make its US debut on Pop on October, 14.
(Via Entertainment Weekly)