The Terror S3 Earns 100% RT Score from First 7 Reviews

AMC's horror anthology series The Terror has earned a perfect 100 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes from its first seven critic reviews ahead of the Season 3 premiere on May 7.

The latest installment, subtitled The Devil in Silver, adapts Victor LaValle's 2012 novel of the same name. It centers on Pepper, a Queens resident and moving company worker played by Dan Stevens, who is wrongfully committed to the decrepit New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital after police intervene in a confrontation involving his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend. Rather than processing paperwork, officers opt for a 72-hour hold at the facility. Pepper's stay extends amid sedation and noncompliance claims, during which he uncovers eerie sounds, visions and rumors of a malevolent entity lurking behind a silver door, possibly feeding on patients.

LaValle co-created and co-showruns the six-episode season with Chris Cantwell, known for Halt and Catch Fire. Karyn Kusama directed the first two episodes, establishing a claustrophobic atmosphere in the underfunded hospital, filmed at a former correctional facility on Staten Island. The cast includes CCH Pounder as head nurse Miss Chris, Judith Light as longtime patient Dorry,...