Simon Pegg, Nick Frost return to horror-comedy roots with Fact Seekers teaser

Amazon’s new supernatural comedy collection Fact Seekers reunites Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

A bunch of part-time paranormal investigators workforce as much as uncover a lethal conspiracy within the first teaser for Fact Seekers, a forthcoming sci-fi/horror comedy collection from Amazon starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. The primary teaser was unveiled at the moment at San Diego Comedian-Con @House, which has needed to swap to an online-only, digital format this 12 months because of the persevering with pandemic.

Created by Pegg, Frost, James Serafinowicz, and Nat Saunders, the eight-episode collection is envisioned as a cross between The X-Recordsdata and the British TV collection Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World. Every episode will concentrate on a particular paranormal incident, a throwback to a traditional monster-of-the-week format. Quite than going with pure spoof, Fact Seekers will apparently take its horror features significantly.

“You must not make enjoyable of the horror,” Pegg mentioned through the Comedian-Con panel. “It’s tempting with style fare to parody that… however I feel the important thing for horror-comedy is to take the horror significantly.”

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