![]() ![]() When people are scared or outraged, their standards of evidence drop and they need someone to blame.” ‘The king of the twist’ It forced me to empathise and try to figure out why they were believing these things. “Bizarre … like that 5G gives you COVID, or that Bill Gates put a tracking device in vaccines. But then, when the COVID pandemic hit, if it gave me one thing, it gave birth to Wild Place because as soon as the pandemic hit I was shocked at the number of conspiracy theories, like with QAnon they were everywhere. ![]() “Every time I tried, it seemed a bit too far-fetched. “I was wanting to do something with Satanic panic for years and wanting to explore it. He knew there was an opening for another smash hit. ![]() White put his interest in satanic panic, and his memories of that time in the early 1980s, and matched it to what he could see unfolding at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. ‘Real-world effects … with real consequences’ There was never evidence but it stoked a fire,” White says. “She had hypnotic regression and had all these memories of being taken in by a cult, being abused, animal sacrifice. White says there were real-life high profile incidents of so-called Satanic panic – the infamous West Memphis 3 case and the McMartin pre-school sex abuse case in Manhattan Beach, California, and most interestingly the case of Michelle Smith who, in her debunked book Michelle Remembers, recalls being taken by a Satanic cult. It’s set right in that and explores that world.” “It came here as well, and it was about parents who all of a sudden had a real and genuine fear of their kids being brainwashed, listening to heavy metal music, afraid of roaming satanic cults. “It’s about a girl who goes missing from a very ordinary suburb on the Mornington Peninsula in the late 1980s and was at the height of Satanic panic, which was a form of mass hysteria which gripped the whole world, America in particular,” he says. His latest work of fiction is set in Victoria and based around the real-life 1980s hysteria-based phenomenon known as Satanic ritual abuse. Less than a year later, he co-wrote 2020 horror flick Relic, produced by Jake Gyllenhaal and starring Emily Mortimer. The Saturday Paper says: “A born storyteller, one who seems to instinctively understand the weave of a proper yarn.”Īfter White sold the rights and sealed a screen deal for his first novel The Nowhere Child, Netflix was knocking on the door in 2019 asking for his Clickbait script, which then became a $36 million eight-part thriller for the streaming giant. “Jaw-dropping … one of the best twists I’ve ever read,” wrote Michael Rowland from ABC News Breakfast. Speaking to The New Daily from his home on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, White, 40, is currently enjoying rave reviews for his most recent piece of fiction, Wild Place, which was released this week. Runtimes haven’t been confirmed.Writer Christian White: 'When the COVID pandemic hit, if it gave me one thing, it gave birth to Wild Place.' Photo: Lupco Veljanovski We have full confirmation that there will be a total of eight episodes. Where the Wild Things Are | The Suicide Theory | Prison Break The Reef: Stalked | Bad Mothers | SeaChange Orange Is the New Black | Doug | The Blacklist Seven Deadly Sins | Time Trax | The Killing off Angel Street Stateless | The Heights | Wentworth Prison Ruby Sparks | The Big Sick | The Ballad of Buster ScruggsĪ Moody Christmas | Dead Lucky | The Wrong Girl The Purge: Election Year | Get Out | Good Girls RevoltĮntourage | The Devil Wears Prada | Drive Me Crazy Snowpiercer | Law & Order: Organized Crime | Saturday Church R#J | American Pie Presents: Girls’ Rules | Malibu Rescue: The Next Wave Zero Dark Thirty | Revolution | Person of Interest The cast of Clickbait is not small by any means: Role at 5 million views, I do.” Has Nick declared his guilt for crimes his wife never knew about? Or has he been set up for something far more sinister? Nick’s wife and sister are in a race against time to save him, but as uncover secrets to Nick’s past, perhaps he isn’t the man they thought they knew after all. Badly beaten, and holding a card that declares “I abuse women. Loving and doting father Nick Brewer mysteriously vanishes, only to one day appear online. The wait for Clickbait isn’t long now, as the miniseries arrives on Netflix on Wednesday, August 25th, 2021. When is the Clickbait Netflix release date? ![]()
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