Video streaming service provider, Showmax has dropped the trailer for its first original horror series, Pulse, which is set to premiere on June 23rd, 2022.
The series was produced by Emmy winner Steve Lanning, with six-episode survival horror series which follows an international group of game creators who discover that survival is no longer just a game when an electromagnetic pulse bomb fries every electrical circuit in their office high-rise building and people’s heads.
According to Lanning, he noted that in many instances, the fear people see on the screen is real “We’d be filming something, crawling through vents, and they wouldn’t tell me but they’d put the camera on me and they’d do a bang or explosion and I’d get an actual fright.”
“It would take a while to calm down afterward. There were a lot of pranks on set; it got quite funny behind the scenes with how people tried to spook each other. That was a definite highlight.”
Starring Sallas De Jager, Tarryn Wyngaard, and Thapelo Mokoena, Pulse is the third co-production between Showmax and CANAL+ and is set in a familiar setting which becomes steadily freakier thanks to production designer Waldemar Coetsee and the visionary VFX team of Laurent-Paul Robert (Harry Potter, The Dark Knight Rises) and Hilton Treves (Tomb Raider, Blood Psalms).