It's Spooky Clown Summer With The First Are You Afraid Of The Dark Trailer

Remember whenever you used to be afraid of clowns? Nickelodeon's Are You Afraid of the Dark? reboot remembers.


Nickelodeon is bringing the most terrifying series of your childhood back with some decidedly newer, creepier content because the Midnight Society takes on a new story featuring Mr. Top hat and the Carnival of Doom.


Featuring Sam Ashe Arnold, Miya Cech, Tamara Smart, Jeremy Taylor, and Lyliana Wray, it looks like an even more unsettling riff on anything the show has done before in terms of clowns, which would be super traumatizing if you're still reeling over the weird things it did once you were a kid. It's the newest member of the Midnight Society, Rachel (Wray) who comes into the fray first with the new original story: "The Carnival of Doom," who finds that the carnival actually ends up coming to town – isn't that just the way?


Just if you may have mistakenly thought that the show had lost its frightening touch, the whole trailer for the upcoming show should assuage all fears. You've got creepy clowns on stilts. Spine-tingling things jumping up out of the water. A carnival barker that appears to have stepped right out of our nightmares. What is even going on here? Why is it so terrifying? Help.


A word of advice: ensure you don't watch it just before bed. Although it is a show aimed at kids, Are You Afraid of the Dark? has routinely deliveree adult-sized scares ever since it first aired. We expect the same out of this new version, and thus for now it looks like it's going to deliver.


The three-part limited series will start airing while in October, with the initial installment starting on Friday, October 11. Buckle in, because this show looks like it's about to up its horror quotient significantly.