‘Escape Room’ And ‘Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension’ Filmmakers Are Creating New Netflix Horror Series ‘The Craving’
Escape RoomdirectorAdam RobitelandParanormal Activity: The Ghost DimensionwriterGavin Heffernan, who previously worked together on the creepy faux-documentaryThe Taking of Deborah Logan, are reuniting for a new Netflix horror series. Much like howDeborah Loganused Alzheimer’s as a springboard for a horror story, this new Netflix series, titledThe Craving, will examine “the real-world horrors of addiction through a genre lens.“Darren Aronofskywill executive produce.
Deadline has the scoop onThe Craving, a new Netflix horror series coming fromThe Taking of Deborah Loganteam Adam Robitel and Gavin Heffernan. The series will explore “the real-world horrors of addiction through a genre lens. It centers around a female sheriff in a Colorado ski town besieged by an unprecedented new threat.”
Robitel and Heffernan wrote the pilot forThe Cravingand are putting together a writers' room for season 1. Robitel will also direct the pilot episode, and other episodes should the series be officially picked up by the streaming giant. The team will also executive produce along with Darren Aronofsky and Elizabeth Gesas at Protozoa Pictures.
Blending real-world horrors with horror movie-style scares can often result in highly effective material. As I mentioned above, the two have some experience with this, having worked together onThe taking of Deborah Logan. The 2014 found footage/faux-documentary went straight to VOD, and it didn’t receive the biggest fanfare when it first arrived. Over time, though, horror fans discovered and embraced the flick, which has some genuinely unnerving moments. In that film, a team of film students is attempting to make a documentary about Deborah Logan, an aging woman suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. But the more time the film crew spends at the Logan household, the more they start to realize there’s something else going on here. Something supernatural. Here’s a trailer.
The Taking of Deborah Logan
If you’ve never seenDeborah Loganand are now curious, it’s currently streaming on Shudder and Amazon Prime Video. Go check it out! Robitel also directedInsidious: The Last KeyandEscape Room.He also helmed the upcoming sequelEscape Room: Tournament of Champions, which is headed to theaters on July 16. Heffernan wroteParanormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, which, if I’m being honest, wasn’t very good. But my curiosity has been piqued byThe Craving, and I look forward to checking this out when and if Netflix gives it a full series order.
