Steven Spielberg is creating a horror series that you can only watch at night, like a monster

By Shannon Miller | June 10, 2019 | 5:38pm

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Steven Spielberg is creating a horror series that you can only watch at night, like a monster

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Steven Spielberg’s next foray into the horror genre, Spielberg After Dark, is literally only fit for nightfall. Per The Hollywood Reporter, his next creepy project will be a series for Jeffrey Katzenberg’s forthcoming short-form video mobile service Quibi. Spielberg is currently writing it (though he confirms that a few “chapters,” each seven to ten minutes long, are already completed), but here’s the kicker: According to Katzenberg, users will only have the ability to view the episodes after dark.

“Steven Spielberg came in and said, ‘I have a super scary story’,” Katzenberg said on Sunday during the Banff World Media Festival. “But he said, ‘I only want people to watch it at midnight. It’s a creepy idea and when they watch it, I want it to be creepier.’” Quibi’s engineers are working on a way to integrate existing cell phone technology, which already tracks sunset/sunrise times according to our specific geographical locations. This might be creepier than the content itself, so A-plus for commitment.