Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen review – so scary it will send you hysterical

Review Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen review – so scary it will send you hysterical Abandoned babies, pink Barbie shoes and throat-slitting serial killers? This wedding horror from the makers of Stranger Things is so hellish I may never sleep again P ersonally, I have always broken off my engagements no more than halfway through a portent-filled night drive to meet my fiance’s parents for the first time in their sprawling, dark-corridor-laced ‘cabin’ in the woods. I might get through the true-crime podcast about a local blood-letting serial killer. I might survive finding a maggoty dead fox in the smashed toilet of a rest stop on the way. But at the first sign of a mysteriously abandoned baby in a parking lot and long before I find myself standing in front of a shrineful of taxidermied family pets in the cabin’s entrance hall, I’m outta there. I’m gone. I commend you all to have such boundaries, but none more so than twenty-something semi-orphaned Oregonian Rachel (Camila Morrone), who finds herself doing precisely that in the eight-part horror series Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen. To be fair to Rachel, she hasn’t seen the title. She and her perfectly nice beau Nicky (Adam DiMarco) are on their way to said cabin in the woods, where the little family-only wedding they have planned is to take place in five days’ time. However. Despite the podcasts about throat-slitting killers (who leave pink Barbie shoes at the scene), rotting vulpine corpses and abandoned babies on the way there, plus a peeping tom, stabbing the peeping tom through the hand with her keys as he asks her “Are you sure he’s the one?” and – before you can say “Holy recurring motif, Batman!” – finding a Barbie shoe on the rest stop floor, Rachel cleaves to the itinerary. To be fair to her, she doesn’t know that Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen is the creation of Haley Z Boston, writer on revenge horror series Brand New Cherry Flavour and the almost self-explanatory Guillermo del Toro’...