Exclusive: Godzilla x Kong Star Dan Stevens Finally Speaks Out on His Supernova Comeback and Unpacks a Chilling New Horror Series

Dan Stevens is back in the mind-melter lane. AMC is rolling out The Terror: Devil in Silver, a six-episode season adapting Victor LaValle's 2012 novel, and it puts Stevens somewhere he knows well: a creepy institution where reality frays at the edges.

The setup

Stevens plays Pepper, a Queens mover who gets wrongfully tossed into New Hyde Psychiatry Hospital for a 72-hour stay/hold. Inside this run-down maze, he clashes with the staff and grows convinced something genuinely evil lives in the building. A whisper-campaign about a patient known as the Devil, supposedly locked behind a mysterious door at the very end of a hallway, does not help. The hook is simple and nasty: is Pepper actually losing it, dealing with his own mental health crisis, or is there a real presence stalking the halls?

Stevens has spent plenty of time dancing with the genre already — The Guest, Legion, Beauty and the Beast, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Abigail, Cuckoo — and when he talked to ComicBook, he laid out why this story clicks and why horror keeps pulling him back.

Why horror fits this story

For Stevens, horror is a sandbox that lets you smuggle in bigger ideas without turning it into a lecture. He likes that the best filmmakers in this space play with the form, not just chasing a monster but sliding real-world critiques under the bed with it. In this case, he says they could have made a grim, issue-forward dirge about the American healthcare system and how we treat mental illness. Instead, they wrapped it in a monster story about an impulsive guy who gets locked up against his will — which lets the show work on two tracks at once: unsettling genre ride and pointed social commentary.

The psych ward advantage

Stevens jokes this is not his first stint in a mental institution on screen — and probably not his last — because these places are built for pressure-cooker storytelling. Any contained setting will do the trick (a hospital, a school, even a submarine), but a psychiatric ward supercharges it. You cannot leave. You are told to take the pills. Of course things get weird. The show keeps pressing on how much of what Pepper sees is real vs. imagined, whether the so-called Devil is a literal thing, a demon he brings with him, or the rot in the system itself. That tension, and the critique embedded in it, is the point. The setting is classic for a reason.

A slow burn on purpose

If you watched Abigail — where Stevens ends up lacquered in gallons of stage blood — this one flips the approach. Devil in Silver is a deliberate slow burn. It is not a jump-scare machine. What makes it work, he says, is character: the season lets you actually meet the people on both sides of the locked doors. The staff are part of the story too, and in some ways they have it just as rough as the patients, grinding through a chronically underfunded system. That fuller view adds heartbreak alongside the dread, which gives the scares more weight when they land.

Less splatter, more sting

There is some blood here, but nowhere near the Abigail levels. Stevens shouts out the Radio Silence guys as brilliant and jokes he just saw Ready or Not 2 and, somehow, it looks even bloodier than Abigail — which he thought was impossible. For him, psychological horror is the one that lingers. It is sneakier, it haunts you longer, and this story, in particular, carries a quiet heartbreak that builds and builds until, by the end, it hits harder than he expected when he first skimmed the pages. The big, silly, gory rides are fun (he cracks that Kathryn Newton might still be washing fake blood out of her hair), but the thornier psychological stuff is the bigger acting challenge — especially with a cast he calls stacked and ready to play.

Meanwhile in Monsterverse land...

Before diving into the asylum, Stevens also teased his return as Trapper in the next Monsterverse movie, Godzilla x Kong: Supernova. He kept it cheerfully vague, but he did drop this:

'I'm delighted to be back. Trapper is such a fun character and I really enjoyed bringing him back. This next one is gonna be out of this world. It's everything you love and more.'

Bottom line: AMC's Devil in Silver is not just another spooky-corridor haunted-hospital show. It is using the ghost story toolkit to poke at something very real — and with Stevens steering, it leans into the kind of reality-warping, ethically messy, quietly unnerving horror that tends to stick in your head long after the lights come up.