Satanic Panic Thriller From Good Fear & ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Duo Gets Straight-To-Series Order At Peacock

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Peacock has handed a straight-to-series order to Hysteria!, a coming-of-age satanic panic drama thriller from writer Matthew Scott Kane (It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia), Dungeons & Dragons filmmakers John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, Chris Bender and Jake Weiner’s Good Fear (My Spy, Mulan) and UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group.Written and executive produced by Kane, Hysteria!

explores American’s dark history of mass hysteria through the shocking story of the teenage Satanic Panic. The series follows a group of 1980s high school misfits as they exploit the growing hysteria around teen occult activity.Per the logline, in Hysteria!, 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.There are parallels in Hysteria!

to Netflix’s Stranger Things, also a 1980s supernatural series featuring a group of outcasts.Daley and Goldstein will executive produce and direct.

Chris Bender and Jake Weiner will executive produce for Good Fear. Scott Stoops serves as supervising producer. UCP is the studio.Good Fear developed the spec pilot and series pitch with Kane and then brought on Goldstein and Daley, with whom Bender and Weiner have a long relationship, to direct and produce.The “Satanic Panic” began in the U.S in the 1980s with thousands of unsubstantiated cases of Satanic ritual abuse, later spreading worldwide by the late 1990s, and still