AMEGA CRUISE SHIP, somewhere in the middle of the ocean. A missing crew member, and a brother who will stop at nothing to discover the truth. A masked killer, slaughtering a crew of teenagers in increasingly grisly ways…
No, that isn’t the preview of the latest Hollywood horror blockbuster; it’s the premise of Wreck, a six-episode black comedy slasher series from writer Ryan J Brown. And it’s British. Hang on… a British slasher TV show?
No one could have been more surprised than Brown himself. “I’ve always found that horror in general is the most difficult sell in the UK for television,” he tells SFX. “I was constantly told commissioners were not really looking for that, but I kept ploughing away.”
Brown, who was awarded a BAFTA New Writing Prize for TV Drama in 2016, insists “It’s my favourite genre. I’ve only been writing for five years, but from the off I wanted to create a horror series, a British horror series.”
Key to Brown’s pitch was. But it’s empty. It’s not a fully working cruise ship.
