Streaming service Peacock has just announced that Julie Bowen (Hubie Halloween, An American Werewolf in Paris) will star in the straight-to-series coming-of-age thriller Hysteria!, a drama series that explores America’s dark history of mass hysteria through the shocking story of the teenage Satanic Panic.
If that’s not enough, Kong: Skull Island director Jordan Vogt-Roberts will helm the premiere episode!
About the series: “When a beloved varsity quarterback disappears during the “Satanic Panic” of the late 1980s, a struggling high school heavy metal band of outcasts realize they can capitalize on the town’s sudden interest in the occult by building a reputation as a Satanic metal band, until a bizarre series of murders, kidnappings, and reported “supernatural activity” triggers a leather-studded witch hunt that leads directly back to them.”
Bowen will play “Linda Campbell, the mother of a teenage outcast. Linda experiences a series of supernatural disturbances that force her to question everything she knows about her son, as well as the growing threat of Satanism in their small Midwestern town.”
The two-time Emmy Award-winning actress may have developed a reputation for comedy, but expect to see her dramatic chops in this drama series that explores America’s dark history of mass hysteria through the shocking story of the teenage Satanic Panic.
The series will be produced by UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group. Matthew Scott Kane serves as writer and executive producer. John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (Dungeons & Dragons, Game Night) will executive produce and direct. Chris Bender and Jake Weiner (Under the Silver Lake)will executive produce for Good Fear.
“This nail-biting thriller dives into a mass moral panic and all the fears, desires, anger, and dread that led to these dark days,” said Beatrice Springborn, President, UCP, previously. “Matthew’s script is original, intriguing and perfectly captures the frenetic energy of the Satanic Panic. We can’t wait for audiences to experience the show on Peacock.”
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