‘The Terror: Devil in Silver’ Review: Dan Stevens and Judith Light in AMC+/Shudder’s Creepy Critique of the U.S. Mental Healthcare Industry
The six-episode adaptation leans on psychological horror and healthcare criticism, but reviewers say its scares and themes are uneven.
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‘The Terror: Devil in Silver’ Review: Dan Stevens Battles the Horrors of American Healthcare
Chris Cantwell and Victor LaValle adapt the latter's book into a six-part series about a dilapidated psychiatric hospital where a new patient has to face down his demons — and perhaps one from the Bible, as well.
‘The Terror: Devil in Silver’ Review: Dan Stevens and Judith Light in AMC+/Shudder’s Creepy Critique of the U.S. Mental Healthcare Industry
Dan Stevens and Judith Light adapts Victor LaValle's novel about an asylum that may be harboring the Devil for 'The Terror: Devil in Silver.
Devil In Silver is an uneven entry into AMC's The Terror franchise
The horror genre is drawn to eerie-looking hospitals with suspicious employees like a moth to a flame. From Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (which gets a cool shoutout in this show) and Stephen King’s The Institute to American Horror Story: Asylum and Legion (also led by Dan Stevens), strange facilities make for a naturally spooky setting. They evoke claustrophobia and endless paranoia while also exploring primal fears of losing cont…
The Terror: Devil in Silver Review - Dan Stevens Battles Monsters Both Human and Horrific
This The Terror: The Devil in Silver review is Spoiler-Free. When the first season of AMC’s The Terror premiered in 2018, it seemed an odd choice for a franchise, likely because it wasn’t supposed to be one. An adaptation of Dan Simmons’ novel of the same name, the critically-acclaimed limited series dramatized the real-life story of the doomed 19th-century Franklin expedition with a supernatural twist, and was so successful that it almost immed…
The Terror: Devil in Silver Turns Institutional Horror Into Something Uncomfortably Real
At first glance, The Terror: Devil in Silver sounds like a fairly straightforward descent into horror. Pepper (Dan Stevens), a working-class man in Queens, is wrongfully committed to a crumbling psychiatric facility called New Hyde, where patients are overmedicated, overlooked, and largely forgotten. But it doesn’t take long for something even more unsettling to emerge — a presence moving through the halls at night, one that may or may not be …
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