Netflix is headed to Long Island with a new supernatural mystery series.
According to a press release from Netflix, the network has ordered eight episodes of Montauk, a new supernatural mystery series to premiere in 2016.
The show will be set in 1980s Montauk, Long Island, where a young boy goes missing and the search for him begins. But this leads into a mystery involving government experiments, supernatural forces, and "one very strange little girl." The show will be inspired by supernatural classics of the 1980s.
From that description mentioning top secret government experiments, the show will probably have something to do with the Montauk Project, claimed to be a series of secret experiments conducted at Montauk by the U.S. government to explore psychological warfare. Conspiracy theorists also claim that at Montauk the government made contact with extraterrestrials via time travel.
The show will be written and directed by Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer. The two brothers recently completed their first feature film, Hidden, about a family taking refuge in a fallout shelter.
This will not be Netflix's first foray into sci-fi/horror. The network also has horror series Hemlock Grove, as well as the upcoming sci-fi series Sense8 from the Wachowskis. Netflix currently produces 13 original shows, not counting continuations like Arrested Development, but has over 30 shows currently in development. Their latest show, Daredevil, premieres on April 10.
Montauk will premiere in 2016 with eight, hour-long episodes.