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Five Nights at Freddy movie studio Blumhouse has found its next big hit with Something Is Killing The Children
Blumhouse swoops in and snatches Something Is Killing the Children from Netflix for movie & TV development.
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The horror studio Blumhouse has reinvented movie franchises such as Halloween, created new franchises in with Five Nights at Freddy's, The Purge, and The Black Phone. And now they think they've found their next star: Erica Slaughter, of the hit horror comics franchise Something Is Killing the Children.
Swooping in after Netflix's plans for the franchise lay fallow for years, Blumhouse is developing two adaptations of James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera's Something Is Killing The Children. In simultaneous development is a live-action movie version of the hit horror series, along with an animated series (adults-only, of course) - the latter of which Tynion is locked in as the creative shotcaller on it.
“It’s easy to see why audiences and critics alike have praised Something is Killing the Children,” says Blumhouse founder/CEO Jason Blum in the announcement. "James and Werther’s comic book series taps into our most primal fears, luring us into a fascinating world and introducing Erica Slaughter, the ass-kicking hero we all wish we had to fight the monsters that lurk in the dark."
Something Is Killing the Children is a long-running creator-driven series in which there are supernatural monsters lurking in the world - but they are monsters only children can see. Erica Slaughter is a hunter of those monsters, but she and the mysterious organization she works for has just as mysterious and complicated a past as the monsters.
All this comes as Something Is Killing the Children publisher BOOM! Studios (now owned by Penguin Random House) went all in on the series, announcing a commitment to a 100-issue run of the series (they're currently at issue #44), and a spinoff comics event in 2026 called Fall of the House of Slaughter.
“Something is Killing the Children is the comic book that changed my life and career forever.” Tynion says in the announcement. “Finding a partner who understood the potential of Erica Slaughter and world Werther Dell’Edera and I have built was crucial, and we have found that partner in Jason Blum. Nobody understands horror better than Blumhouse, and I can’t wait for the world to see what we all have planned together.”
I see some subtle shade there in the "finding a partner who understood" Something Is Killing the Children in light of a three-year deal they had with Netflix to develop the comic into a TV series. There were two publicly announced versions of the project at Netflix, but at the end of the deal in 2024 something was killing those from happening.
Maybe Blumhouse can see the monster-sized hit in Something Is Killing the Children that Netflix couldn't.
If you want spoilers (and I know you do), the best place to start is by buying Something Is Killing The Children Vol. 1.
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