"Something is Killing the Children" Animated Series (News and Discussion)

[wonderfly]

From the front page of AnimeSuperhero.com:

"‘Something Is Killing The Children’ Animated Series In Development At Blumhouse"​

"What’s the next Walking Dead? Who’s gonna be the next Invincible? Does our next animated adaption of a gory adult comic book HAVE to be from Robert Kirkman? Maybe not, if this latest venture between Boom Studios, publishers of action-horror series Something Is Killing The Children, and Hollywood studiio Blumhouse works out.

Something Is Killing The Children was originally announced by Boom in 2019 as a limited series of just five issues. Something must’ve convinced them it had more potential than that, because it was then changed to an ongoing book before release. They were correct in smelling a hit. 45 issues have now been published, and Boom has committed to producing a hundred.

As for what it’s about…the title gives away a lot. Yes, something is killing the children, but who’s going to do something about it? There’s this world of monsters that only kids can see. The boogeyman, the thing in the closet and under the bed, all real and hungry for kindergartners. That’s where Erica Slaughter, a monster hunter with a very on-the-nose name, steps in. Where did Erica come from and who is she working for? Why can SHE see the monsters? These are questions the animated series may answer, if the comic doesn’t first."

Read the full article here.

 

[Frontier]

I hope they can capture the art style of the comic.

 

[PicardMan]

An adult horror cartoon. Well, the title implies that there will be graphic violence against children, which seems....trauma triggering.

 

[wonderfly]

An adult horror cartoon. Well, the title implies that there will be graphic violence against children, which seems....trauma triggering.

It could be implied violence, like....how Stephen King's "It" handled violence in the 90's version (the "made for TV" movie). The remake from a few years back got too graphic with the classic death of Georgie (but I enjoyed the rest of the remake film. I....just didn't care for Georgie's death).

I also didn't care for the death of the boy in the remake of Stephen King's "Salem's Lot" from last year. I'm sorry, but I remember reading the novel all those years ago. In the "Salem's Lot" novel, when the vampire killed the boy, the chapter ends with "It became unspeakable". We didn't need to see the killing of a kid (which is what we see in the new "Salem's Lot"). We also didn't need to see the death of a kid in Stephen King's "Doctor Sleep" film from just a few years back.

I think I'm getting sidetracked to say: Stephen King films have gotten a lot more graphic in the last 10 years, and I'm not fond of it.

But I don't mind a fictional horror universe (done in animation) where, say, "Children get stalked by a monster, which only they can see". That's basically the plot of Stephen King's "It". It can be done well. Just have the scene do a jump scare with the monster appearing and then cut to the next scene in the morning with police finding the body.

The plot description sounds like it has a touch of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" as well, with the female protagonist who has the capability to see (and fight) the monsters.

 

[Otakuninja2006]

This is interesting. Hopefully it comes out and is good. SIKTC looks like it could be a Western equivalent to say, Chainsaw Man or some of the other recent anime if that art in the article here is anything to go by.