kykNET (DStv 144) is adding a new and its first supernatural, horror drama series, Die Spreeus (The Starlings) from April, following investigators' search into children's abduction after following an ice-cream cart and other spooky, unexplained cases.
Similar to the new upcoming American crime series Tell Me a Story coming to M-Net (DStv 101) revolving around three bank robbers wearing pig masks and bringing a modern-day spin to classic fairy tales, Die Spreeus takes inspiration from original South Africa horror and ghost stories ranging from the tokoloshe to the Ghost from Uniondale.
Die Spreeus is layered with motifs, themes and characterisations that viewers in the mood for a good scare will recognise from traditional South African scary tales but with a new spin.
Die Spreeus, produced by Marche Media, will start on kykNET on Tuesday 9 April at 20:00 with Chris Vorster, known for his former longrunning role as Ryno in SABC2's 7de Laan soap, as well as Monique Rockman as Beatrice Mack, and Sandi Schultz from Binnelanders and Hotel fame on kykNET as boss Rosa Scheffers.
Part The X-Files, detectives Bas Koorts (Chris Vorster) and Beatrice Mack (Monique Rockman), weekly investigate different cases, following crime into otherwordly realms.
Cases range from a ghost army seeking revenge, a supernatural encounter in a ghost house, a woman who disappears, to a boy with autism seeing the future, a scary night creature and a visitor from the past who can't rest in peace.
