Jordan Peele is bringing back the hidden camera prank show.
The Oscar-winning Get Out filmmaker is reviving Scare Tactics, which originally launched on Syfy in 2003 and ran for five seasons. The series debuted just one month after MTV’s Punk’d and featured ordinary people being put into terrifying situations with the help of professional Hollywood special effects, stunt and makeup teams.
The official description: “Scare Tactics will turn unsuspecting individuals into the main characters of their very own horror movies. This heart-pounding show offers a cinematic approach to the hidden camera concept. Set up by their friends and family, these unwitting participants are put in hilariously twisted scenarios with fully immersive stories that blur the lines of reality, horror and comedy. As they navigate one unreal decision after another, audiences will laugh, jump and be left breathless for more.”
Win Rosenfeld, the president of Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions, said in a statement: “We’re so grateful at Monkeypaw to help reimagine one of our all-time favorite hidden camera shows. Working with showrunner Elan Gale, one of the most creative and mischievous minds in unscripted television, and Scott Hallock, the brilliant creator of the original Scare Tactics, has been an absolute blast. It’s cathartic and hilarious to watch people get a little scared, and the scenarios we cooked up for this season are really wild. We can’t wait to share a little light-hearted schadenfreude with audiences soon.”
Added creator Hallock: “Reimagining Scare Tactics with Jordan, Monkeypaw and UTAS has been a dream come true. Fans have been asking us to bring Scare Tactics back for years, and working with this team was an amazing opportunity.
The rebooted Scare Tactics is produced by Universal Television Alternative Studio and Monkeypaw and will debut on USA Network sometime this fall.
