Gird your cock-a-doodie loins: Annie Wilkes has found herself waylaid in Castle Rock and she has enough syringes to go around. The official trailer for season two of J.J. Abrams and Stephen Kings Hulu series Castle Rock has dropped and it focuses mostly on the sinister nurse from Kings 1987 novel, Misery, here played by Lizzy Caplan.
Were searchers, you and me, Wilkes tells her daughter (Elsie Fisher) at the start of the clip. But you deserve a chance to make a place in the world. See, Im a searcher who just wants to settle. Wants it bad. Just cant seem to find that place that will live up to you, my perfection.
In this season of Castle Rock a show that melds myriad King storylines and characters Wilkes settles in the titular town, which is on the brink of war with the neighboring town of Jerusalems Lot, a.k.a. Salems Lot. Those who have read Kings 1975 novel by that name will know that the Lot has its share of demons as in, its literally infested with vampires.
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The creatures will likely make an appearance in the new season, as the trailer features a shot of the broken down Marsten house, otherwise known as Vampire Ground Zero.
Wilkes seems more than a match for the otherworldly denizens of the Lot, though. On the run from her murderous past (in Misery, she killed more than one patient), she first tangles with Reginald Pop Merrill (Tim Robbins), a crime family patriarch pulled from Kings novella, The Sun Dog, who claims that Annie has brought a host of problems to my town. Along with Pop, theres also an array of unseen victims whom Annie takes down with syringes and scissors in a shower of blood.
Creepy parades, pagan rituals and dire warnings that something wicked this way comes, Castle Rock season two looks to be a mlange of some of the best Kingian scares. The show premieres October 23rd, but a teaser will go live on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter Wednesday, October 2nd, at 9 p.m. ET. According to a release, it will feature a 13-minute drive (from the drivers POV) to Jerusalems Lot.
King has had a fruitful year in terms of new projects and adaptations: He just released his newest novel, The Institute, as well as the film IT Chapter Two, while aremake of Pet Sematary hit screens earlier this year.