Dan Stevens (Abigail, Downton Abbey) seems like a really good stepdad in the trailer for The Terror: Devil in Silver, the third and latest installment in the AMC horror anthology series The Terror, which now has its first run on streamers AMC+ and Shudder. It’s a real shame what happens to him in that (probably) haunted mental hospital.
The six-episode limited series — executive produced by Stevens, Ridley Scott, showrunners Chris Cantwell (Halt and Catch Fire) and Victor LaValle (The Changeling), the author of the novel on which the season is based, and Karyn Kusama (Yellowjackets), who directs the first two episodes — sends Pepper (Stevens) to the New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital, “an institution filled with those society would rather forget,” the season three synopsis reads. “There, he must contend with patients working against him, doctors harboring grim secrets, and perhaps even the Devil himself.”
Do NOT open that silver door.
Pepper, a working class moving man, must navigate “a hellscape where nothing is as it seems,” it continues. “He finds that the only path to freedom is to face the entity which thrives on the suffering within New Hyde’s walls — but doing so may prove that the worst demons of all live inside him.”
Well that’s no good.
The cast of The Terror: Devil in Silver also includes Judith Light (Before, Out of My Mind), Aasif Mandvi (Evil, This Way Up), Hampton Fluker (Shades of Blue, Instant Family), CCH Pounder (Rustin, NCIS: New Orleans), b (WeCrashed, You), Chinaza Uche (Silo, A Good Person), Stephen Root (Barry, Heads of State), Hayward Leach (Tom Swift, Love Life), John Benjamin Hickey (The Big C, Lilly), Michael Aronov (The Americans, Operation Finale), Philip Ettinger (First Reformed, I Know This Much Is True) and Marin Ireland (Sneaky Pete, Glass Chin).
In addition to Stevens, Scott, Kusama and the showrunners, The Terror: Devil in Silver is executive produced by David W. Zucker and Clayton Krueger for Scott Free Productions, Alexandra Milchan for Emjag Productions, Guymon Casady (Entertainment 360) and Brooke Kennedy.
Previous seasons of The Terror focused on (first) a British naval expedition stuck in the ice while searching for the Northwest Passage and (second) haunting events in a Japanese internment camp during World War II.
The Terror: Devil in Silver will debut Thursday, May 7 on AMC+ and Shudder, with new episodes airing weekly. It will air on AMC later in 2026.
