‘Shining Vale’: Courteney Cox Series Gets Spooky First Trailer [Watch]

Bonafide scream queen Courteney Cox (Scream) is back again to freak us out with Shining Vale. The STARZ series has finally released a trailer, and we are fully invested. Check out the first look footage below. Shining Vale premieres with two episodes on Sunday March 6th 2022!

The upcoming horror comedy is part family dramedy, part homage to classic horror. Shining Vale is created by Jeff Astrof (Trial & Error, Ground Floor,) and Sharon Horgan (Divorce, Catastrophe), starring Emmy Award® nominee Courteney Cox (Friends, Scream), Academy Award® nominee and Emmy Award® winner Greg Kinnear (As Good As It Gets, The Kennedys), and Oscar® winner Mira Sorvino (Hollywood, The Expecting).

The upcoming horror comedy also stars Gus Birney (Dickinson), Merrin Dungey (Big Little Lies, The Resident) and Dylan Gage (PEN15), and features Judith Light (Impeachment: American Crime Story) and Sherilyn Fenn (Twin Peaks).

Synopsis:

Pat and Terry Phelps (Cox and Kinnear) cash in their life savings and move from a cramped apartment in Brooklyn, to an old Victorian mansion in Shining Vale, Connecticut as a last-ditch effort to save their marriage after Pat’s torrid affair with Frank, their young hot handyman who came over to fix the sink while Terry was at work. To make matters worse for Terry, Frank never fixed the sink, yet still charged him for it!

A former “wild child” who rose to fame by writing a raunchy, drug-and-alcohol-soaked women’s empowerment novel (a.k.a. lady porn), Pat is now clean and sober 17 years later but totally unfulfilled. She still hasn’t written her second novel, she can’t remember the last time she had sex with her husband, while her teenage daughter, Gaynor (Gus Birney) wants Pat dead and Jake (Dylan Gage), their adolescent son, is so addicted to screens he’s completely checked out. 

Buying a 200-year-old house that was on the market for almost three years and sold for more than $250K below asking seemed like a good idea on paper, but Pat senses that the Phelps are not alone; especially when an old-fashioned-looking woman appears hovering outside their family room window.

The Phelps quickly learn why the agents were so motivated to sell the house for a fraction of the asking price. Seems a few details were glossed over, including a triple murder-suicide and a host of other atrocities they neglected to mention. But neither Terry nor the kids seem to notice that something is horribly wrong with their new home; only Pat can see things move and hear the bumps in the night. She’s also the only one who sees the spirit of the person who used to live there, Rosemary (Sorvino), a Fifties housewife who may or may not be trying to take over Pat’s body.  Is Pat depressed, or possessed?  Turns out the symptoms are exactly the same.

Everyone has their demons, but for Pat Phelps, they may be real. 

Check out the trailer for Shining Vale here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sbecEEZTEw

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