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Hysterical investigates a mysterious illness that spreads among a group of high school girls in upstate New York. What is causing their sudden, often violent symptoms? Is there something in the water or inside the school? Or is it âall in their head?â The series examines the outbreak in LeRoy, NY, believed by some to be the most severe case of mass hysteria since the Salem Witch Trials. In his search for answers, Dan Taberski (9/12, Missing Richard Simmons, Running from Cops) explores other seemingly inexplicable events of the last few years â CIA officers being crippled with nausea and vertigo; cops OD'ing from exposure to fentanyl â and discovers theyâre far more connected than we realize.
From Wondery and Pineapple Street Studios, this 7-part series forces us to grapple with the mysteries of our own minds, and reckon with a contagion that we thought was long dead, but may be the defining disorder of our time.
Follow Hysterical on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. You can binge all episodes of Hysterical early and ad-free right now by joining Wondery+ at wondery.fm/Hysterical_FD.
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Time for a deep dive into all things âPsychoâ with Rob Galluzzo, Sr. Editor at Blumhouse Productions, co-host of the SHOCKWAVES podcast, and creator of the documentary âThe Psycho Legacy.â Rob and host Mark Ramsey swap some stories, including things that didnât make the cut for Inside Psycho and tidbits about other films in the series. Itâs a great way to generate chills even in the steamiest of summers.
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Psycho fever overtakes America, and Alfred Hitchcock is suddenly a very rich man. And with this stunning success comes one haunting fear: What will I do for an encore? That question plagues Hitchcock for the rest of his career, through only six more films, a humiliating defeat at the Academy Awards, the specter of young directors vaulting past the old master, and a final appearance to accept a life achievement award thatâs too little and too late. Meanwhile, critical admiration for Psycho grows, and the filmâs legacy spawns sequels and remakes and a web of pop culture signposts, even today. We leave you in the cellar of terrifying old house on a lonely hill. Do you hear something?
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Hitchcockâs nightmares haunt him as he readies Psycho for release. He tussles with the censors to keep his precious shower scene - the one which does or does not contain nudity, depending on which censorâs opinion youâre listening to. Hitch maps out an elaborate and unprecedented publicity strategy and in the process reinvents the way America goes to the movies. He suffers a rash of scathing reviews from big name critics, one of whom calls Psycho âa very minor work.â Then, Psycho opens - and the world will never be the same. Hitchcock marvels at the lines around every block all across the country. Perhaps his fears were all wrong...or maybe this will be the huge success from which he will never recover.
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Itâs the inside story of the legendary shower scene, from the nudist on set, to Janet Leighâs unending efforts to maintain some decency, to the answer to the longstanding question: Do you actually see the knife disappear into a body or not?
We review the sounds of stabbing, the practical jokes that had everyone in stitches (except Janet Leigh), the novel introduction of a toilet to an American movie, the did-she-or-didnât-she blink moment, and the very real possibility that the entire shower scene could have played in silence. Plus, you meet the famous child actor from the 1950âs who helped glue hairs into the head of Normanâs motherâs corpse. All the while, Hitchcock is convinced that the picture heâs making is, in a word, awful.
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What do you do when your studio hates your next picture? If youâre Alfred Hitchcock, you put up your own money and risk everything on it. Psycho was a movie everybody in town said couldnât get made - it would be the movie that would ruin Hitchcockâs career, they said. Or would it?
Hitchcock casts his Norman Bates and his âperfectly ordinaryâ Marion Crane. Hear how the voice of Normanâs mother evolves from a series of hilarious celebrity prank calls, how Hitch navigates the performance of one actor he called âthe stiff.â Then, he swears the cast and crew to secrecy, and production begins on the biggest bet of Hitchcockâs career.
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When a struggling writer, Robert Bloch, discovers the story of a strange man in Wisconsin who killed and mutilated his victims, he transforms it into a story about the twisted relationship between a man and his mother: Psycho. Later, he realizes his fictions come closer to the dark truth than he ever could have imagined. Thatâs when his book is optioned by an anonymous Hollywood buyer for next to nothing.
That buyer turns out to be Alfred Hitchcock. We meet Hitch on his deathbed, rewind through key moments, and end with Hitch savoring only one of the 2,400 submissions his office had reviewed. This would be his next picture: Psycho.
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A mild and meek man who was unusually attached to his domineering mother. Thatâs the story of Ed Gein, who murdered numerous middle-aged women in and around Plainfield, WI in the 1950âs, and whose story inspired the character of Norman Bates.
The story of Psycho begins in a dingy, remote cabin, where Gein collected bits and pieces of his subjects and fashioned them into chairs, lampshades, or worse. All his victims were chosen because they reminded him of his mother. When he was buried, this was engraved on the headstone beside his: âAugusta Gein: Mother.â Geinâs story is a chilling beginning to one of the most famous stories in movie history.
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A deep dive into the mysterious and peculiar happenings that occurred during the filming of the legendary film Psycho. Mark Ramsey Media and Wondery create a magical mix of fact and fiction which transports you into the world of Hitchcock. Psycho is among the greatest thrillers in movie historyâand it nearly didnât happen!
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