Warning. Your connection to reality has suddenly quit. Now reconnecting. Stop whatever it is that you are doing and check out the trailer for Hulu’s new sci-fi/horror anthology series, Dimension 404.
“In the darkest depths of cyberspace, there is a lost dimension, home to wonders unseen, terrors unspeakable, and stories unlike any ever told.”
So says the eerie narrator (voiced by the one and only Mark Hamill). Each episode is self-contained, and will tell a story about an internet or technology-related terror. Going through the trailer, the great Patton Oswalt sets us up for something that is “going to suck.” But suck it did not, Mr. Oswalt. What follows for the next 75 seconds is a neon blast of old school scares and an array of familiar faces. Given the nature of these anthology series such as The Outer Limits, it will most likely not end well for these characters.
The show may hit a little too close to Black Mirror territory. However, Dimension 404 looks like it’s bringing much more popcorn fun and camp akin to an 80s sci-fi/horror flick than the hit British series.
Dimension 404 is produced by RocketJump, a digital studio founded in 2010 by Freddie Wong, Matthew Arnold, and Desmond Dolly. Their site has an impressive collection of original videos. Most notably, they are known for the action/comedy web series Video Game High School. The show takes place in a future where video gaming has become the world’s most popular sport, its best players are taken to stardom. The RocketJump team called Dimension 404 “the biggest project” they have undertaken to date – and for good reason.
Dimension 404 has a stellar cast including Lea Michele, Joel McHale, Patton Oswalt, Megan Mullaly, and Mark Hamill as the narrator. The first of the six hour-long episodes will stream on Hulu beginning, fittingly, on April 4 (4/04).
