‘Tiny World’ firm Plimsoll & horror producer Blumhouse prep ‘Nightmares Of Nature’

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Tiny World outfit Plimsoll Productions has struck an unlikely partnership with US-based horror producer Blumhouse that will see the two companies working together on a new factual show.

Nightmares Of Nature explores how animal “battle to survive the true-life horrors only real nature can provide” using a narrative lens to tell the story.

The show has been filmed by natural history producers, with the footage then edited “through the eyes of horror filmmakers”, according to Blumhouse, with the show exploring trees that bleed, zombie snails and vampire fish.

Blumhouse TV and ITV Studios-owned Plimsoll are joint producers, with Jason Blum, Chris McCumber and Gretchen Palek attached as executive producers for the horror firm.

For Plimsoll, Grant Mansfield, Alan Eyres, Tom Hugh-Jones and Martha Holmes are attached.

“Plimsoll is best in class in the world of natural history and factual programming and in Nightmares Of Nature Plimsoll and Blumhouse are playing to our storytelling and producing strengths,” said McCumber, president of Blumhouse Television.

“It’s only natural to be scared about the things that go bump in the night, but Nightmares Of Nature isn’t a projection of the supernatural. Once you start looking at the natural world, you will find things as terrifying as anything in a horror movie,” says Eyres, head of Plimsoll USA.

“To tell that story, we could not hope for better collaborators than Blumhouse. Combining the world’s greatest horror filmmakers with some of the world’s best Natural History storytellers is a unique opportunity to create a more visceral, emotional point of entry to nature than anything we’ve seen before.”