For many years, Henry Selick has been a reputation for teenagers to worry. The director behind The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas and Coraline (plus the suitably creepy James And The Large Peach adaptation) is accountable for numerous sleepless nights – and by the appears to be like of issues, he’s about to do it once more. The stop-motion filmmaker is again with Wendell & Wild, a demonic new animated journey, and his first function in 13 years, which appears to be like set to conjure up frights and delights on Netflix within the days operating as much as Halloween. The primary trailer has arrived, promising some critically spooky enjoyable – and you may have a look right here.

In addition to having Selick on director duties, this one is co-written and produced by Jordan Peele, who additionally lends his voice alongside longtime collaborator Keegan-Michael Key because the titular demon duo of Wendell (Key) and Wild (Peele) – brothers making an attempt to enter the Land Of The Dwelling with the assistance of Lyric Ross’s 13-year-old insurgent Kat. Selick’s work has all the time skewed in the direction of kid-friendly(-ish) horror, and it appears that evidently Wendell & Wild will proceed in that vein, with the trailer that includes glowing-eyed nuns, spooky shadow-puppet imagery, spectral visions, a freaky fairground, and one thing enormous rising from a graveyard. And did you see that little Jack Skellington-face Easter Egg in there? Properly accomplished! Notably, the movie has been given a PG-13 score within the States – so count on this one to work effectively for barely older children.

Wendell & Wild is arriving on Netflix from 28 October – bolstering a powerful exhibiting of Halloween arrivals on the streaming service, together with Mike Flanagan’s The Midnight Membership, anthology sequence Guillermo del Toro’s Cupboard Of Curiosities, Stephen King adaptation Mr. Harrigan’s Cellphone, and Paul Feig’s The College For Good And Evil. Deliver on the nightmares (earlier than Christmas comes round).