In the wake of films like Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey and The Mean One, it seems that no family-friendly kids property is truly safe from the icy cold grip of the horror genre. It’s always fun to imagine beloved non-horror franchises taking a sinister turn, and fan Jared Pelletier has just whipped up his own faux trailer that reimagines Casper in that vein.
“This is a reimagining of Casper the Friendly Ghost as an elevated horror film,” Pelletier tells Bloody Disgusting. “I put this together as part of a contest to showcase how this IP revival could be reimagined – but I’m really just doing this as a massive fan of horror, the Halloween season we’re entering, and as a creative outlet as we navigate the strikes in our business.”
The trailer runs just 60-seconds long but perfectly captures the intended A24 vibe, with a sinister line repetition and dark, mysterious visuals really driving that atmosphere home.
“You just want a friend.” Watch the faux Casper horror movie trailer below!
What’s really going on with the Casper property? Believe it or not, it was just one year ago that Peacock announced a new Casper series with a bit of a “darker interpretation.”
In other words, this faux trailer may not be too far off the mark!
Deadline reported in April 2022, “Casper the Friendly Ghost is coming back to television in a brand new incarnation reminiscent of Riverdale‘s darker interpretation of the Archie comics. Peacock is developing Casper, a live-action, horror/adventure series, which reimagines the origin of Casper in a coming-of-age story that explores what it means to be alive.”
In the planned upcoming Peacock series…
“When a new family arrives in the small town of Eternal Falls, Casper finds himself entangled in a mystery uncovering dark secrets that have been buried for over 100 years.”
Stay tuned for more on Peacock’s new “Casper” series as we learn it.
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