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Hulu Returning to the Era of Satanic Panic With Drama Series “Demons”
We’ve learned tonight that Hulu is in development on a series titled “Demons,” set against the backdrop of the hysteria known as “Satanic Panic” in the ’80s/90s.
As outlined by Wikipedia, “Satanic ritual abuse was the subject of a moral panic that originated in the United States in the 1980s, spreading throughout many parts of the world by the late 1990s. Allegations of SRA involved reports of physical and sexual abuse of people in the context of occult or Satanic rituals.”
The series is written by Juliet Lashinsky-Revene, and it revolves around Marilyn Jones, the seductive “patient zero” in the frenzy surrounding Satanic Ritual Abuse, and her husband, Bennett Lewis, a brilliant but manipulative psychiatrist.
“In success,” THR notes, “each season of Demons would explore a twisted crime affected by the couple’s dark exploration into the fragile nature of memory and guilt.”
Revene will exec produce alongside Karyn Usher and Lisa Zwerling via their Carpoon Entertainment. Lionsgate is the studio on the drama. Amanda Tudesco will produce.
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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