“The Midnight Club” is a new series from Mike Flanagan for Netflix. The horror mystery is the third series Flanagan created for the streaming service.
Let’s find out some trivia and facts about the series.
- The Midnight Club is an American horror mystery-thriller streaming television series
- The series is created by Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong
- With Flanagan serving as showrunner and executive producer along with Trevor Macy
- It is an adaptation of the 1994 novel of the same name by Christopher Pike
- The series follows eight hospice patients who meet up each midnight to tell sinister stories
- It stars Iman Benson, Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard, William Chris Sumpter, and Sauriyan Sapkota as the titular patients
- Heather Langenkamp, Zach Gilford, Matt Biedel, and Samantha Sloyan have recurring roles
- The Midnight Club premiered on Netflix on October 7, 2022
- A group of seven close terminally ill young adults resides in the Rotterdam Home hospice run by an enigmatic doctor
- They meet at midnight every night to tell each other scary stories
- One night they make a pact that the first one to succumb to their disease is responsible for communicating with the others from beyond the grave
- After one of them dies, bizarre occurrences begin
- In May 2020, it was announced an adaptation of Christopher Pike’s young adult novel The Midnight Club would be created for Netflix by Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong
- In an interview for IGN, Flanagan revealed that he was profoundly inspired by Nickelodeon’s horror anthology series Are You Afraid of the Dark?
- Flanagan confirmed the cast in a series of tweets on Twitter: Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard, William Chris Sumpter, Sauriyan Sapkota as the titular cast, and Heather Langenkamp as the doctor presiding over the hospice of the terminally ill
- Zach Gilford and Matt Biedel, and recurring Flanagan collaborator Samantha Sloyan will appear in recurring roles
- In April 2021, Iman Benson, Larsen Thompson, William B. Davis, Crystal Balint, and Patricia Drak joined the cast
- The project began production on March 15, 2021, in Burnaby, British Columbia
- It was planned to conclude on September 8, 2021
- But actually finished production on September 10
- The first two episodes of the series are directed by Flanagan
- Other episodes in the season were helmed by directors Axelle Carolyn, Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour, Michael Fimognari, Morgan Beggs, and Viet Nguyen
- The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 86% approval rating
- With an average rating of 7.3/10
- Based on 37 critic reviews
- The website’s critics consensus reads, “Mike Flanagan’s hot streak of heartfelt horror stories continues strong in The Midnight Club,a tale of terminal teenagers told with jolts and joie de vivre”
- Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 64 out of 100
- Based on 21 critics
- Indicating “generally favorable reviews”
- The first episode of the series broke the Guinness World Record for the most scripted jump-scares in a single episode of television at 21 jump-scares
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