Nightmares of Nature Season 1: Cabin in the Woods – Release date, streaming details and more about the upcoming Netflix documentary 

The world of wildlife documentaries is about to receive a spine-chilling addition as Netflix gets set to launch Nightmares of Nature Season 1: Cabin in the Woods.

Famed for its library of nature docs (My Octopus Teacher, Chasing Coral, and Seaspiracy), Netflix is no stranger to making visually luscious documentaries about life in the natural world. This time, the streaming giant is again making a bold move by mixing the awe of nature with the suspense of horror, resulting in an experience that will be hauntingly beautiful.

This adds more anticipated original documentaries and series to the streaming service’s expanding lineup of boundary-pushing non-fiction, but Netflix’s ongoing dedication towards innovating documentary formats (even for lesser-known stories) will no doubt make this a worthy addition.

Nightmares of Nature Season 1: Cabin in the Woods: Release date, narration and streaming details

Set to land as the autumn nights start to draw in, Nightmares of Nature is set out to disrupt traditional documentary storytelling. Throughout its two-season debut this fall, it will weave real-world natural history through a prism of psychological terror, treating audiences to a view of the animal kingdom unlike any they have seen before.

Nightmares of Nature will premiere worldwide on Netflix, with the series' first season, Cabin in the Woods, on September 30, 2025, and season 2, Lost in the Jungle, on October 28, 2025. There will be three 45-minute episodes per season. The series will be available globally on Netflix, allowing subscribers everywhere to experience this genre-defying blend of natural history and horror.

The chilling documentary will be narrated by Maya Hawke, one of Netflix’s most recognisable names from Stranger Things, Do Revenge, and Fear Street Part One: 1994. Her dulcet tone becomes part of a list that includes narrators as influential and recognisable as Barack Obama and David Attenborough, who have both voiced nature documentaries to Netflix’s acclaim.

In the first Season, the tale unfolds deep in the murky North American forest where a prospective mother mouse, a young bachelor raccoon, and a traumatised froglet are scouring for a safe refuge. Their search takes them to an enigmatic cabin, where they hope to find refuge, but it becomes the stage for their latest and most gruesome test.

The team behind Nightmares of Nature Season 1: Cabin in the Woods

Nightmares of Nature is the result of an extraordinary collaboration between Blumhouse Television and Plimsoll Productions, with Doug Mackay-Hope as series producer. The first season is directed by Nathan Small, with Charlotte Lathane on board for the second. The executive producers are Jason Blum, Martha Holmes, Mark Brownlow, Grant Mansfield, Gretchen Palek, and Matt Sarshik.

Alan Eyres, Head of Plimsoll USA, expressed his views about the upcoming Nightmares of Nature documentary, noting:

“It’s only natural to be scared about the things that go bump in the night, but Nightmares of Nature isn’t a projection of the supernatural. Once you start looking at the natural world, you will find things as terrifying as anything in a horror movie.”

With an aesthetic that recasts the animal kingdom as a domain of lurking dangers and ghostly tales of survival, the series aims to convey viewers into an atmosphere where even nature feels like a haunted terrain. Eyres added:

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“A unique opportunity to create a more visceral, emotional point of entry to nature than anything we’ve seen before.”

The daring hybrid of horror and nature telling that puts Nightmares of Nature among the most adventurous documentary projects on Netflix to date. Turning these standard rhythms of the natural world into something befitting of a dark and ominous thriller, the series is set to flip audiences’ expectations of wildlife documentaries on their head as it creates an unforgettable viewing experience.

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