Julie Bowen’s Hysteria!: What to Know About Spooky Satanic Panic Show

Spooky season is nearly right here, and what higher solution to have fun than with Peacock’s upcoming TV sequence Hysteria!

Set within the Nineteen Eighties, Hysteria! revolves across the Satanic Panic of the period as a high-school heavy steel band will get greater than they bargained for.

“Hysteria! is about either side of that generational concern. It’s in regards to the thrills of being younger, rebellious in spirit and aspirational at coronary heart — and the horrors of rising up and realizing that the world you thought you knew has shifted beneath your toes,” govt producers Matthew Scott Kane and David A. Goodman teased in an August assertion. “That concern haunts each era.”

The thriller is launched as the right watch for folks and kids.

“Youngsters of the Atomic Age went on to terrifying their households by turning on, tuning in and dropping out within the ’60s. Those self same ‘free spirits’ went on to vote for [President Ronald] Reagan and referred to as for censorship of the ‘obscene’ and ‘satanic’ heavy steel bands their very own youngsters worshiped,” the assertion continued. “Now, these youngsters are adults who rail in opposition to pronouns, TikTok and a film about Barbie. The cycle doesn’t finish. And it’s exhausting to flee the sensation that somebody, or one thing, is sitting by watching all of it, and laughing.”

Kane and Goodman concluded: “Our hope is that folks and kids (of the suitable age, after all) can benefit from the chills, the laughs, the music, and the guts of Hysteria! collectively. Rising up is horrifying. So is parenting.”

Hysteria! contains a star-studded forged together with Julie Bowen, Anna Camp and Bruce Campbell. Maintain scrolling for the whole lot to know in regards to the present:

When Is ‘Hysteria!’ Premiering — and The place?

Hysteria! premieres October 18 on Peacock, and the pilot will simulcast on USA Community and Syfy. New episodes will proceed to air on USA Friday nights.

What Is the Plot of ‘Hysteria!’?

Based mostly on the synopsis for the sequence, the story picks up “when a beloved varsity quarterback disappears through the Satanic Panic of the late Nineteen Eighties,” at which level “a struggling highschool heavy steel band of outcasts notice they’ll capitalize in town’s sudden curiosity within the occult by constructing a fame as a Satanic steel band.” The plan falls aside, nonetheless, when “a weird sequence of murders, kidnappings and reported ‘supernatural exercise’ triggers a leather-studded witch hunt that leads instantly again to them.”

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Who Else Makes Up the Forged of ‘Hysteria!’?

Along with Bowen, Camp and Campbell, Emjay Anthony, Chiara Aurelia, Kezii Curtis and Nikki Hahn spherical out the forged. Hysteria! additionally options Garret Dillahunt, Nolan North, Elijah Richardson, Milly Shapiro, Allison Scagliotti and Jessica Treska in visitor roles.

Will Issues Be Getting Spooky?

The primary glimpse on the present focuses on Bowen’s character dancing round her kitchen to Belinda Carlisle’s tune “Heaven Is a Place on Earth” earlier than an earthquake happens in her small city. She then sees a demonic face watching her from the microwave.

In the meantime within the first official trailer, Dylan’s mom, Linda (Julie), begins to query whether or not her son is concerned in one thing sinister. The sneak peek hints that Linda turns into the sufferer of the unseen power. She finally ends up being dragged up the steps — regardless of there not being anybody holding her. There’s additionally Camp’s character Tracy to look ahead to as she stirs up bother.

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Is This Julie Bowen’s 1st Horror Challenge?

Earlier than her involvement with Hysteria!, Bowen delivered a memorable efficiency in Prime Video’s Completely Killer. The actress particularly was concerned in an epic demise scene, which director Nahnatchka Khan solely broke down for Us Weekly.

“When speaking to Julie, [a fight scene] was the factor that she stated she by no means bought to do. So when she was in, she was one hundred pc recreation,” Khan advised Us in 2022. “She did all her personal stunts, by the best way. The one two issues she didn’t need to do is be thrown by a espresso desk and onto this concrete slab. However the whole lot else, she did during.”

Bowen has additionally appeared in horror motion pictures akin to An American Werewolf in Paris and Hubie Halloween.