The Midnight Club has met an early demise. Netflix has cancelled the mystery-thriller series, but one of the show's creators, Mike Flanagan, has given viewers a glimpse into what would have happened in season two.
Debuting in October, The Midnight Club was created by Flanagan and Leah Fong and is based on the works of Christopher Pike. It stars Iman Benson, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Annarah Cymone, Chris Sumpter, Adia, Aya Furukawa, Sauriyan Sapkota, Matt Biedel, Samantha Sloyan, with Zach Gilford and Heather Langenkamp. The story takes place at a hospice for terminally ill young adults. Every night at midnight, eight patients come together to tell each other stories. They also make a pact that the next of them to die will give the group a sign from the beyond. Read More…...
Debuting in October, The Midnight Club was created by Flanagan and Leah Fong and is based on the works of Christopher Pike. It stars Iman Benson, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Annarah Cymone, Chris Sumpter, Adia, Aya Furukawa, Sauriyan Sapkota, Matt Biedel, Samantha Sloyan, with Zach Gilford and Heather Langenkamp. The story takes place at a hospice for terminally ill young adults. Every night at midnight, eight patients come together to tell each other stories. They also make a pact that the next of them to die will give the group a sign from the beyond. Read More…...
- 12/3/2022
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Almost immediately following the news that Mike Flanagan and producing partner Trevor Macy would be leaving Netflix and heading over to Amazon Studios as part of a new overall deal, the streaming giant announced that they would not be pursuing a second season of "The Midnight Club," Flanagan's recent teen-horror series based on the books of Christopher Pike. The news was unfortunate but not all that surprising, especially as "The Midnight Club" didn't pull in as high critical reception as his previous series like "The Haunting of Hill House" or "Midnight Mass," but it certainly still had a pretty dedicated fanbase of younger viewers. The show centered on a group of terminally ill young adults who meet each night at midnight to trade scary stories, which provided a vehicle for other Pike stories to be told.
With over 85 books to choose from, "The Midnight Club" had enough material to last for plenty of seasons,...
With over 85 books to choose from, "The Midnight Club" had enough material to last for plenty of seasons,...
- 12/3/2022
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
Mike Flanagan kept his word and has revealed the answers to burning questions from the cliffhanger ending of “The Midnight Club,” following Netflix’s decision to cancel the show after one season.
“It’s a shame we won’t get to make it, but it would be a bigger shame if you guys simply had to live with the unanswered questions and the cliffhanger ending,” the executive producer and co-creator wrote in a Friday Tumblr post. He shared it on the heels of Thursday’s news that Netflix has opted not to pick up “The Midnight Club” for Season 2, just as Flanagan and producing partner Trevor Macy move their overall deal from Netflix to Amazon.
“The Midnight Club,” which launched Oct. 7, consisted of 10 episodes, the first of which broke the world record for most jump scares in a TV episode.
Flanagan took great care in laying out the broad strokes...
“It’s a shame we won’t get to make it, but it would be a bigger shame if you guys simply had to live with the unanswered questions and the cliffhanger ending,” the executive producer and co-creator wrote in a Friday Tumblr post. He shared it on the heels of Thursday’s news that Netflix has opted not to pick up “The Midnight Club” for Season 2, just as Flanagan and producing partner Trevor Macy move their overall deal from Netflix to Amazon.
“The Midnight Club,” which launched Oct. 7, consisted of 10 episodes, the first of which broke the world record for most jump scares in a TV episode.
Flanagan took great care in laying out the broad strokes...
- 12/2/2022
- by Jennifer Maas
- Variety Film + TV
This article contains spoilers for The Midnight Club.
With the cancellation of The Midnight Club after its first season, it seems as though Mike Flanagan’s Netflix era may be coming to a close. The upcoming limited series The Fall of the House of Usher appears to be Flanagan’s last TV project under his pact with Netflix, and he and his Intrepid Pictures Partner Trevor Macy just signed an overall TV deal with Amazon.
While most of Flanagan’s Netflix projects were designed to be one season miniseries, he had at least one more season in mind to tell The Midnight Club’s story and left some things unanswered on purpose. Even though we won’t get to see the story of Brightcliffe continue onscreen, Flanagan was kind enough to share answers to questions left by season 1 as well as how he and Leah Fong hoped to end the second season on tumblr.
With the cancellation of The Midnight Club after its first season, it seems as though Mike Flanagan’s Netflix era may be coming to a close. The upcoming limited series The Fall of the House of Usher appears to be Flanagan’s last TV project under his pact with Netflix, and he and his Intrepid Pictures Partner Trevor Macy just signed an overall TV deal with Amazon.
While most of Flanagan’s Netflix projects were designed to be one season miniseries, he had at least one more season in mind to tell The Midnight Club’s story and left some things unanswered on purpose. Even though we won’t get to see the story of Brightcliffe continue onscreen, Flanagan was kind enough to share answers to questions left by season 1 as well as how he and Leah Fong hoped to end the second season on tumblr.
- 12/2/2022
- by Brynnaarens
- Den of Geek
Even though the fireplace has been extinguished, the stories explored in Netflix’s “The Midnight Club” live on.
Co-creator and executive producer Mike Flanagan has made good on his promise to unfold the mysteries set up in the first season of the YA thriller series following its cancellation by the streamer, which TheWrap exclusively reported on Thursday. Flanagan and Trevor Macy’s Intrepid Pictures have been behind several beloved horror-tinged Netflix series, including “The Haunting of Hill House,” “The Haunting of Bly Manor” and “Midnight Mass,” as a result of their overall deal (now wrapping up as they head to Amazon Studios), but “The Midnight Club” marked the first show designed to be ongoing.
“My biggest disappointment is that we left so many story threads open, holding them back for the hypothetical second season, which is always a gamble,” he wrote in a Tumblr post. “So I’m writing this...
Co-creator and executive producer Mike Flanagan has made good on his promise to unfold the mysteries set up in the first season of the YA thriller series following its cancellation by the streamer, which TheWrap exclusively reported on Thursday. Flanagan and Trevor Macy’s Intrepid Pictures have been behind several beloved horror-tinged Netflix series, including “The Haunting of Hill House,” “The Haunting of Bly Manor” and “Midnight Mass,” as a result of their overall deal (now wrapping up as they head to Amazon Studios), but “The Midnight Club” marked the first show designed to be ongoing.
“My biggest disappointment is that we left so many story threads open, holding them back for the hypothetical second season, which is always a gamble,” he wrote in a Tumblr post. “So I’m writing this...
- 12/2/2022
- by Natalie Oganesyan
- The Wrap
Of all the shows Mike Flanagan and his production company Intrepid Pictures made for Netflix – The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Midnight Mass, The Midnight Club, and the upcoming The Fall of the House of the Usher – the Christopher Pike-inspired The Midnight Club was the only one that was designed to be an ongoing series. The finale left the story wide open to continue… so of course Netflix went ahead and cancelled it. But Flanagan had said that if the show wasn’t renewed, he would go online and spill all of the details on what they had planned for season 2. True to his word, Flanagan took to Tumblr to reveal the Midnight Club season 2 plans soon after Netflix confirmed the show is over.
What Flanagan wrote on Tumblr is too lengthy to be posted here, but he answers a lot of the questions that...
What Flanagan wrote on Tumblr is too lengthy to be posted here, but he answers a lot of the questions that...
- 12/2/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
The Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong-created series “The Midnight Club” marked the first Netflix series for Flanagan that was intended to continue over multiple seasons, which meant that the inaugural season ended with multiple unresolved storylines and cliffhangers.
The news of the series cancellation leaves fans disappointed that those loose ends will remain unresolved, or does it?
Flanagan fulfilled his promise on Twitter not to leave fans hanging in the wake of the cancellation news, providing detailed plans for what we would’ve seen had season two come to pass.
In a blog post, Flanagan answers the mysteries of Dr. Stanton (Heather Langenkamp) and her ties to Brightcliffe Hospice’s cult past, the true identity of the Janitor (Robert Longstreet), what the Shadow is, and the fates of central characters introduced in the inaugural season.
More than wrapping up story threads, Flanagan reveals more Pike novels planned for the second season.
The news of the series cancellation leaves fans disappointed that those loose ends will remain unresolved, or does it?
Flanagan fulfilled his promise on Twitter not to leave fans hanging in the wake of the cancellation news, providing detailed plans for what we would’ve seen had season two come to pass.
In a blog post, Flanagan answers the mysteries of Dr. Stanton (Heather Langenkamp) and her ties to Brightcliffe Hospice’s cult past, the true identity of the Janitor (Robert Longstreet), what the Shadow is, and the fates of central characters introduced in the inaugural season.
More than wrapping up story threads, Flanagan reveals more Pike novels planned for the second season.
- 12/2/2022
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
The news broke just yesterday that Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy‘s Intrepid Pictures has inked a new series deal with Amazon Studios, meaning Flanagan and Macy are no longer making horror shows for Netflix. The duo’s series projects will exclusively stream on Prime Video going forward, but what does that mean for a potential “The Midnight Club” Season 2?
The Christopher Pike-based horror series, which debuted this past Halloween season, will not be receiving a second season, Deadline confirms in a new report this morning.
Deadline notes of the Flanagan and Leah Fong-created series, “It’s all over for “The Midnight Club” on Netflix, as the young adult series has been canceled after one season.”
“The Midnight Club” followed a group of eight terminally ill patients at Brightcliffe Hospice, who begin to gather together at midnight to share scary stories.
Still to come from Mike Flanagan and...
The Christopher Pike-based horror series, which debuted this past Halloween season, will not be receiving a second season, Deadline confirms in a new report this morning.
Deadline notes of the Flanagan and Leah Fong-created series, “It’s all over for “The Midnight Club” on Netflix, as the young adult series has been canceled after one season.”
“The Midnight Club” followed a group of eight terminally ill patients at Brightcliffe Hospice, who begin to gather together at midnight to share scary stories.
Still to come from Mike Flanagan and...
- 12/2/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Mike Flanagan soared to horror success with his Netflix features, The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass. The director then tried his hand at capturing a younger audience with his first series, The Midnight Club. The show is adapted from the work of author Christopher Pike. The series is about a group of teenagers facing terminal illnesses and living at the Brightcliffe Hospice, where paranormal activities take place.
Variety has reported that Netflix has now canceled the YA drama after one season. Netflix is known for its business model of ending series in a limited amount of time. However, this is the first project that executive producers Flanagan and Trevor Macy intended to have multiple seasons. The show premiered in October with ten episodes. The pilot set a record for the most jump scares in a TV episode.
The cast included Iman Benson, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Annarah Cymone,...
Variety has reported that Netflix has now canceled the YA drama after one season. Netflix is known for its business model of ending series in a limited amount of time. However, this is the first project that executive producers Flanagan and Trevor Macy intended to have multiple seasons. The show premiered in October with ten episodes. The pilot set a record for the most jump scares in a TV episode.
The cast included Iman Benson, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Annarah Cymone,...
- 12/2/2022
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
It's game over for another freshman series at Netflix.
The Wrap reported Thursday that the supernatural thriller The Midnight Club has been canceled after a single season.
The adaptation of Christopher Pike's 1994 novel of the same name and premiered October 7 on Netflix.
"At a hospice with a mysterious history, the eight members of the Midnight Club meet each night at midnight to tell sinister stories – and to look for signs of the supernatural from the beyond," the logline reads.
The cast included Iman Benson, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Annarah Cymone, Chris Sumpter, Adia, Aya Furukawa, Sauriyan Sapkota, Matt Biedel, Samantha Sloyan, Zach Gilford, and Heather Langenkamp.
News of the cancellation came hours after Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy moved their overall deal from Netflix to Amazon Studios.
“Mike and Trevor are remarkable at telling immersive, suspenseful stories that masterfully keep audiences engaged from start to finish,” said Vernon Sanders,...
The Wrap reported Thursday that the supernatural thriller The Midnight Club has been canceled after a single season.
The adaptation of Christopher Pike's 1994 novel of the same name and premiered October 7 on Netflix.
"At a hospice with a mysterious history, the eight members of the Midnight Club meet each night at midnight to tell sinister stories – and to look for signs of the supernatural from the beyond," the logline reads.
The cast included Iman Benson, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Annarah Cymone, Chris Sumpter, Adia, Aya Furukawa, Sauriyan Sapkota, Matt Biedel, Samantha Sloyan, Zach Gilford, and Heather Langenkamp.
News of the cancellation came hours after Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy moved their overall deal from Netflix to Amazon Studios.
“Mike and Trevor are remarkable at telling immersive, suspenseful stories that masterfully keep audiences engaged from start to finish,” said Vernon Sanders,...
- 12/2/2022
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Netflix has opted not to renew “The Midnight Club” for a second season, TheWrap has learned exclusively. The YA horror-thriller series was co-created and executive produced by Mike Flanagan, along with creator Leah Fong, based on Christopher Pike’s creative works.
“The Midnight Club” premiered on Netflix on Oct. 7 to both positive critics’ and audience reviews; however, it only remained on the Netflix Top 10 for three weeks. At the end of the day, viewership numbers stacked up unfavorably with series cost. Upon its debut on the chart, it was ranked at No. 4, with 18.8 million hours viewed. It gained traction in week two with 49.9 million viewing hours, peaking at No. 3. After sliding back to No. 5 in its third week, the series dropped off the list entirely in week four, facing heavy competition from “The Watcher,” “Dahmer,” “Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities,” “From Scratch” and “Big Mouth,” among other titles.
“The Midnight Club” premiered on Netflix on Oct. 7 to both positive critics’ and audience reviews; however, it only remained on the Netflix Top 10 for three weeks. At the end of the day, viewership numbers stacked up unfavorably with series cost. Upon its debut on the chart, it was ranked at No. 4, with 18.8 million hours viewed. It gained traction in week two with 49.9 million viewing hours, peaking at No. 3. After sliding back to No. 5 in its third week, the series dropped off the list entirely in week four, facing heavy competition from “The Watcher,” “Dahmer,” “Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities,” “From Scratch” and “Big Mouth,” among other titles.
- 12/2/2022
- by Natalie Oganesyan
- The Wrap
Mike Flanagan’s long-awaited adaptation of The Midnight Club has finally made its way to Netflix. Geared at a slightly younger audience, the series is an adaptation of Christopher Pike‘s novel about five teenagers living out their final days at Brightcliffe Manor, a hospice for terminal youth. Each night they gather in the ornate library to tell scary stories, creating ghosts as they wait to become them. At just over 200 pages, the slim novel is a moving story of love, friendship, and death; perfect for Flanagan’s patented blend of sentimental horror.
True to form, the writer and director, along with co-creator Leah Fong, injected the original story with new characters, amplified plotlines, and extra moments of terror, expanding the narrative to deepen Pike’s original themes.
New Faces
The Midnight Club. Heather Langenkamp as Dr. Georgia Stanton in episode 102 of The Midnight Club. Cr. Eike Schroter/Netflix © 2022
Pike...
True to form, the writer and director, along with co-creator Leah Fong, injected the original story with new characters, amplified plotlines, and extra moments of terror, expanding the narrative to deepen Pike’s original themes.
New Faces
The Midnight Club. Heather Langenkamp as Dr. Georgia Stanton in episode 102 of The Midnight Club. Cr. Eike Schroter/Netflix © 2022
Pike...
- 11/2/2022
- by Jenn Adams
- bloody-disgusting.com
You’d think watching a television series about hospice as I gave end-of-life care to my dad would be a horrible idea. But I craved the familiar company of ghosts.
However, Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong’s The Midnight Club provided me with something else – the understanding I needed to put another morphine syringe into my father’s blistering mouth. What appeared on-screen mirrored what was unfolding in my home, which, yes, gave validation to how unbelievably hard this is. The writing whispered permission for me (like the show’s teens) to feel a range of conflicting emotions at the prospect of letting someone die on their terms … including relief.
But vitally, it reminded me that this is what he wanted. As volatile as my feelings were, this is a time to comfort him, to feel the warmth between our hands for as long as it lasts. For that and more,...
However, Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong’s The Midnight Club provided me with something else – the understanding I needed to put another morphine syringe into my father’s blistering mouth. What appeared on-screen mirrored what was unfolding in my home, which, yes, gave validation to how unbelievably hard this is. The writing whispered permission for me (like the show’s teens) to feel a range of conflicting emotions at the prospect of letting someone die on their terms … including relief.
But vitally, it reminded me that this is what he wanted. As volatile as my feelings were, this is a time to comfort him, to feel the warmth between our hands for as long as it lasts. For that and more,...
- 10/21/2022
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
On Netflix’s new horror show, the terrific and terrifying The Midnight Club from scare maestro Mike Flanagan, most of the characters are high school kids. And they are all facing something darker than evil spirits: none have long left to live. They board together at the storied Brightcliffe Manor, a special hospice for terminally ill teens. Despite the house’s sobering purpose, the atmosphere can verge on gleeful. These kids might be dying, but at least here there aren’t any parents nagging them to be a “fighter”.
There’s only two adults on staff (Heather Langenkamp as Brightcliffe’s founder and Friday Night Lights’ Zach Gilford as its nurse practitioner) and just one rule – a 10pm curfew that the patients treat like a suggestion. At midnight, they creep out of their rooms and into the old mansion’s library to trade scary stories and, like teens with longer life expectancies,...
There’s only two adults on staff (Heather Langenkamp as Brightcliffe’s founder and Friday Night Lights’ Zach Gilford as its nurse practitioner) and just one rule – a 10pm curfew that the patients treat like a suggestion. At midnight, they creep out of their rooms and into the old mansion’s library to trade scary stories and, like teens with longer life expectancies,...
- 10/17/2022
- by Amanda Whiting
- The Independent - TV
At this point, you've had time to finish Netflix's latest scary TV series, "The Midnight Club." Based loosely on the 1994 book of the same name by Christopher Pike, the show follows a group of eight terminally ill teenagers staying at the Brightcliffe Hospice Center who tell each other scary stories and vow to send the group signs from beyond the grave if they die first. But, as the dying teens come to terms with their mortality, they may also discover something supernatural afoot at Brightcliffe.
"The Midnight Club" season one ends on a massive cliffhanger, so fans are wondering if a second season full of more scary stories, more friendship, and maybe a few answers to the burning questions they have is on the way.
Read on to find out what the cast of "The Midnight Club" told Popsugar about a possible season two.
How Does "The Midnight Club" Season 1 End?...
"The Midnight Club" season one ends on a massive cliffhanger, so fans are wondering if a second season full of more scary stories, more friendship, and maybe a few answers to the burning questions they have is on the way.
Read on to find out what the cast of "The Midnight Club" told Popsugar about a possible season two.
How Does "The Midnight Club" Season 1 End?...
- 10/15/2022
- by Noelle Devoe
- Popsugar.com
The Mike Flanagan small-screen universe -- or Flanaverse, as Netflix has officially dubbed it -- is always growing. After impressing viewers with the emotional one-two punch of literary adaptations "The Haunting of Hill House" and "The Haunting of Bly Manor," the filmmaker created a profound and sweeping original story last year with the limited series "Midnight Mass." Now, he's back with "The Midnight Club," a series co-created by Leah Fong that pulls together the creepy YA stories of Christopher Pike.
Flanagan has long-since been known for employing actors he likes to work with again and again, often in the kind of richly layered roles that typically only come around once in a lifetime. More than most of his projects, "The Midnight Club" is like a playground for its performers, since its story-in-a-story structure lets its core cast play multiple characters, while guest stars can pop up at any given moment.
Flanagan has long-since been known for employing actors he likes to work with again and again, often in the kind of richly layered roles that typically only come around once in a lifetime. More than most of his projects, "The Midnight Club" is like a playground for its performers, since its story-in-a-story structure lets its core cast play multiple characters, while guest stars can pop up at any given moment.
- 10/9/2022
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Spoiler alert: The following article contains spoilers and discusses the entirety of “The Midnight Club” Season 1.
Episode 10 of Netflix’s “The Midnight Club,” aptly titled “Midnight,” ritualistically delivers on a plethora of promises the series made early on in the season: We learn quasi-cult leader Shasta’s (Samantha Sloyan) backstory; Sandra (Annarah Cymone), who was revealed to have a false terminal diagnosis, leaves Brightcliffe; Kevin (Igby Rigney) finally finishes his ever-winding tale of a teen forced to kill due to a generational curse, and Ilonka (Iman Benson) concludes her story about the bond between witch mother and daughter. Oh, and the two lovesick fools finally kiss!
But in the last moments of the episode, Dr. Georgina Stanton (“A Nightmare on Elm Street’s” Heather Langenkamp) — who had just rebuked Ilonka for her dangerous involvement with Shasta’s iteration of the mysterious Paragon — takes off her wig, revealing a bald head...
Episode 10 of Netflix’s “The Midnight Club,” aptly titled “Midnight,” ritualistically delivers on a plethora of promises the series made early on in the season: We learn quasi-cult leader Shasta’s (Samantha Sloyan) backstory; Sandra (Annarah Cymone), who was revealed to have a false terminal diagnosis, leaves Brightcliffe; Kevin (Igby Rigney) finally finishes his ever-winding tale of a teen forced to kill due to a generational curse, and Ilonka (Iman Benson) concludes her story about the bond between witch mother and daughter. Oh, and the two lovesick fools finally kiss!
But in the last moments of the episode, Dr. Georgina Stanton (“A Nightmare on Elm Street’s” Heather Langenkamp) — who had just rebuked Ilonka for her dangerous involvement with Shasta’s iteration of the mysterious Paragon — takes off her wig, revealing a bald head...
- 10/9/2022
- by Natalie Oganesyan
- The Wrap
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The Episode | “Prodigal Son” (Oct. 4, 2022)
The Performance | Amid a school shooting threat that hit way too close to home, Jubal Valentine this week had to juggle his roles as lawman, father and ex-husband — and Sisto made you feel as if the typically cool Assistant Special Agent in Charge was...
- 10/8/2022
- by Team TVLine
- TVLine.com
Netflix‘s latest horror series from Haunting favorite Mike Flanagan has officially dropped and the stars stopped by TV Insider and TV Guide Magazine‘s studio at New York Comic Con 2022 to spill all their behind-the-scenes secrets. The spoiler-free conversation helmed by Emily Aslanian features many of the young stars at the center of the series inspired by Christopher Pike’s work, as well as A Nightmare on Elm Street vet, Heather Langenkamp, who plays Dr. Stanton at the hospice home where the show is set. Sitting down for the interview, above are Igby Rigney, Langenkamp, Aya Furukawa, Sauriyan Sapkota, Chris Sumpter, Adia, Iman Benson, Annarah Cymone, and Ruth Codd. (Credit: Eike Schroter/Netflix) While they couldn’t spoil plot points, they took time to answer questions about working together and what viewers might think of their characters. As teased in the video, above, when it comes to being similar to their character,...
- 10/7/2022
- TV Insider
Mike Flanagan typically shies away from jump scares in his horror, but he’s breaking all the rules with Netflix’s “The Midnight Club.”
The premiere episode of Flanagan’s latest series, co-created with Leah Fong, just set a Guinness World Record for the most scripted jump scares in a single episode of television.
“The Midnight Club” is available to stream now on Netflix.
The episode that earned the distinction, “The Final Chapter,” clocks in 21 jump scares in rapid succession during a very J-horror inspired tale. Flanagan and his creative team were presented with a certificate by a Guinness representative for the accomplishment.
Flanagan told Deadline in a statement, ““I thought, ‘We’re going to do all of them at once, and then if we do it right, a jump scare will be rendered meaningless for the rest of the series.’ It’ll just destroy it. Kill it finally until it’s dead,...
The premiere episode of Flanagan’s latest series, co-created with Leah Fong, just set a Guinness World Record for the most scripted jump scares in a single episode of television.
“The Midnight Club” is available to stream now on Netflix.
The episode that earned the distinction, “The Final Chapter,” clocks in 21 jump scares in rapid succession during a very J-horror inspired tale. Flanagan and his creative team were presented with a certificate by a Guinness representative for the accomplishment.
Flanagan told Deadline in a statement, ““I thought, ‘We’re going to do all of them at once, and then if we do it right, a jump scare will be rendered meaningless for the rest of the series.’ It’ll just destroy it. Kill it finally until it’s dead,...
- 10/7/2022
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
“To those before, to those after. To us now and to those beyond. Seen or unseen, here but not here.” So goes the axiom that opens every story told by the patients of Brightcliffe Manor under the lights of the converted hospice’s hazy library fireplace in Netflix’s “The Midnight Club.”
Co-created and executive produced by Mike Flanagan, who counts the YA horror sci-fi series as his fourth at the streamer, the show marks a majority of the ensemble members’ first in their acting repertoire. For its main cast, the “pressure” to deliver to Flanagan’s fanbase (carried over from “The Haunting of Hill House” to “The Haunting of Bly Manor” and “Midnight Mass”) was real, but it’s one that they handled together and in stride, not unlike the eponymous crew they portray in the pulsating show.
Adapted from Christopher Pike’s creative work of the same name,...
Co-created and executive produced by Mike Flanagan, who counts the YA horror sci-fi series as his fourth at the streamer, the show marks a majority of the ensemble members’ first in their acting repertoire. For its main cast, the “pressure” to deliver to Flanagan’s fanbase (carried over from “The Haunting of Hill House” to “The Haunting of Bly Manor” and “Midnight Mass”) was real, but it’s one that they handled together and in stride, not unlike the eponymous crew they portray in the pulsating show.
Adapted from Christopher Pike’s creative work of the same name,...
- 10/7/2022
- by Natalie Oganesyan
- The Wrap
Mike Flanagan’s latest Netflix series, The Midnight Club is an adaptation of not just one Christopher Pike novel, but many of the prolific 80s and 90s YA author’s works. In the past, there has been only one adaptation: a 1996 made-for-tv movie of Fall Into Darkness starring Tatyana Ali and Jonathan Brandis (available for free on YouTube).
The series, by comparison, will see filmed adaptations of not just the titular book, but also The Wicked Heart, Gimme a Kiss, See You Later, Witch, Road to Nowhere, and The Eternal Enemy
So what do you need to know about the books before you dive into the series? Let’s break it down!
The Midnight Club (1994)
First and foremost, the series is an adaptation of Christopher Pike’s story about a group of teens in a hospice. In the book there are five main characters (compared to the series’ eight) and they’re all white…...
The series, by comparison, will see filmed adaptations of not just the titular book, but also The Wicked Heart, Gimme a Kiss, See You Later, Witch, Road to Nowhere, and The Eternal Enemy
So what do you need to know about the books before you dive into the series? Let’s break it down!
The Midnight Club (1994)
First and foremost, the series is an adaptation of Christopher Pike’s story about a group of teens in a hospice. In the book there are five main characters (compared to the series’ eight) and they’re all white…...
- 10/7/2022
- by Joe Lipsett
- bloody-disgusting.com
Whether you are a '90s kid or just came to respect the era thanks to the resurgence of its most prominent fashion trends and music, you'll love "The Midnight Club." The Netflix show follows a group of eight terminally ill patients at a hospice-care center called Brightcliffe in the '90s. They tell each other scary stories every night, each promising to send the group a sign from beyond the grave if they die. But along the way, haunting secrets about Brightcliffe are revealed.
The new show, which hit Netflix on Oct. 7, doesn't waste any time embracing the nostalgia. In the opening scenes, Iman Benson's character, Ilonka, hits up a college party, where "Insane in the Brain" by Cypress Hill plays over the loudspeakers. Later, when she learns she has terminal cancer, she uses a truly vintage desktop computer with dial-up internet to Yahoo search "surviving thyroid cancer.
The new show, which hit Netflix on Oct. 7, doesn't waste any time embracing the nostalgia. In the opening scenes, Iman Benson's character, Ilonka, hits up a college party, where "Insane in the Brain" by Cypress Hill plays over the loudspeakers. Later, when she learns she has terminal cancer, she uses a truly vintage desktop computer with dial-up internet to Yahoo search "surviving thyroid cancer.
- 10/7/2022
- by Noelle Devoe
- Popsugar.com
This article contains no spoilers.
Mike Flanagan has become Netflix’s go-to spooky season purveyor, dealing out annual horror miniseries that serve somewhat as Trojan horses for deep ruminations on life, death, and faith. After The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and Midnight Mass, Flanagan’s house style has crystalized. A Flanagan joint will have flowery monologues, complicated group dynamics, and harrowing backstories for the central characters that inform the scares being served in the main narrative. Flanagan’s latest outing for Netflix, an adaptation of Christopher Pike’s YA book series The Midnight Club, co-created by Bly Manor co-producer Leah Fong, unfortunately finds Flanagan’s usual tricks feeling stale in this Are You Afraid of the Dark?-meets-The Fault in Our Stars melodrama.
For those like myself who are unfamiliar with the book series, The Midnight Club centers on Ilonka (Iman Benson), a smart...
Mike Flanagan has become Netflix’s go-to spooky season purveyor, dealing out annual horror miniseries that serve somewhat as Trojan horses for deep ruminations on life, death, and faith. After The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and Midnight Mass, Flanagan’s house style has crystalized. A Flanagan joint will have flowery monologues, complicated group dynamics, and harrowing backstories for the central characters that inform the scares being served in the main narrative. Flanagan’s latest outing for Netflix, an adaptation of Christopher Pike’s YA book series The Midnight Club, co-created by Bly Manor co-producer Leah Fong, unfortunately finds Flanagan’s usual tricks feeling stale in this Are You Afraid of the Dark?-meets-The Fault in Our Stars melodrama.
For those like myself who are unfamiliar with the book series, The Midnight Club centers on Ilonka (Iman Benson), a smart...
- 10/7/2022
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
In 2017, a little-known Australian author published an unforgettable book about dying — not death, mind you, but dying. Diagnosed with Stage IV cancer, Cory Taylor’s memoir isn’t about how she “fights” for her life or “battles” a disease; it’s about grounding an experience that, one way or another, we’ll all share. “Dying: A Memoir” acknowledges the dread and sadness surrounding our ultimate fate, but the author steers her story toward advocacy over despair. She wishes more people could acknowledge the simple reality of death with empathy, acceptance, and an open dialogue. After all, it’s far more acceptable to reject news of a loved one’s damning diagnosis — “You’ll beat this thing” or “Don’t talk like that” — than to face the fear together via a real, practical exchange. And for those soon departing, spending your last days hoping and searching for a miracle isn’t...
- 10/7/2022
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
It makes sense why Christopher Pike’s 1994 novel, The Midnight Club, would appeal to Mike Flanagan. Its esoteric ruminations on death and storytelling feel like a natural extension of themes explored in Midnight Mass, only for a younger audience in mind. Series creators Flanagan and Leah Fong repurpose some of Pike’s prolific catalog, using The Midnight Club as a centerpiece, to explore what it means to live and die through stories.
A terminal diagnosis sends Ilonka (Iman Benson) spiraling; her college plans and bright future come undone by an unexpected illness. The determined hopeful begins researching a way to beat the odds, leading her to Brightcliffe, a hospice for teens like her. The remote hospice harbors a mysterious past, and as Ilonka seeks to uncover its secrets, she also bonds with her peers through the Midnight Club. Each night its members gather at midnight to tell each other stories...
A terminal diagnosis sends Ilonka (Iman Benson) spiraling; her college plans and bright future come undone by an unexpected illness. The determined hopeful begins researching a way to beat the odds, leading her to Brightcliffe, a hospice for teens like her. The remote hospice harbors a mysterious past, and as Ilonka seeks to uncover its secrets, she also bonds with her peers through the Midnight Club. Each night its members gather at midnight to tell each other stories...
- 10/7/2022
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Plot: At a hospice with a mysterious history, the eight members of the Midnight Club meet each night at midnight to tell sinister stories – and to look for signs of the supernatural from the beyond.
Review: It probably goes without saying that at this point, people are going to watch The Midnight Club simply because Mike Flanagan’s name is attached to it. After the acclaim for The Haunting of Hill House, Flanagan’s The Haunting of Bly Manor was met with a slightly less enthusiastic welcome. But, Flanagan’s Midnight Mass was a masterpiece of storytelling. If the pattern holds, The Midnight Club would be a weaker entry into the horror maestro’s oeuvre of shows. Luckily, I am glad to say that the series has broken expectations. The Midnight Club is nothing like any of Flanagan’s previous films or series but impresses nonetheless by combining an original...
Review: It probably goes without saying that at this point, people are going to watch The Midnight Club simply because Mike Flanagan’s name is attached to it. After the acclaim for The Haunting of Hill House, Flanagan’s The Haunting of Bly Manor was met with a slightly less enthusiastic welcome. But, Flanagan’s Midnight Mass was a masterpiece of storytelling. If the pattern holds, The Midnight Club would be a weaker entry into the horror maestro’s oeuvre of shows. Luckily, I am glad to say that the series has broken expectations. The Midnight Club is nothing like any of Flanagan’s previous films or series but impresses nonetheless by combining an original...
- 10/7/2022
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
Your mileage may vary with The Midnight Club, depending on how much nostalgia you have for Christopher Pike's pulpy YA horror novels.
Creators Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong clearly loved and respected the original material. The Midnight Club is an ambitious project, but the novel lends itself well to the semi-anthological format.
Recent high school graduate Ilonka is sent to live at a hospice for terminally ill young people who like to get together secretly every night and tell each other scary stories.
The stories within the story are transporting. In the original book, they served as windows into the minds and feelings of the storytellers.
Here Flanagan and Co. go one better and incorporate a range of Christopher Pike's novels -- Gimme A Kiss, The Wicked Heart, Witch, See You Later -- for the Midnight Club's stories.
Giving each story a different film style/genre is a nice touch.
Creators Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong clearly loved and respected the original material. The Midnight Club is an ambitious project, but the novel lends itself well to the semi-anthological format.
Recent high school graduate Ilonka is sent to live at a hospice for terminally ill young people who like to get together secretly every night and tell each other scary stories.
The stories within the story are transporting. In the original book, they served as windows into the minds and feelings of the storytellers.
Here Flanagan and Co. go one better and incorporate a range of Christopher Pike's novels -- Gimme A Kiss, The Wicked Heart, Witch, See You Later -- for the Midnight Club's stories.
Giving each story a different film style/genre is a nice touch.
- 10/7/2022
- by Mary Littlejohn
- TVfanatic
Click here to read the full article.
If “the sounds of stories are the sounds of life,” as one of its characters reflects, The Midnight Club is positively bursting with vitality. Nested within its central narrative, of a teen girl (Iman Benson’s Ilonka) arriving at Brightcliffe hospice after a terminal cancer diagnosis, are at least a dozen others: There’s the vaguely mystical history of Brightcliffe, and the biographies of Brightcliffe’s other young residents, plus the spooky fictional tales they share around the fireplace each night as they wait for someone, finally, to make good on their pact to reach out from the other side once they’ve passed on.
Not all of the stories contained in The Midnight Club work equally well, and a few purposely don’t really work at all. Collectively, however, they mount a compelling case for why stories matter and why scary stories in particular do,...
If “the sounds of stories are the sounds of life,” as one of its characters reflects, The Midnight Club is positively bursting with vitality. Nested within its central narrative, of a teen girl (Iman Benson’s Ilonka) arriving at Brightcliffe hospice after a terminal cancer diagnosis, are at least a dozen others: There’s the vaguely mystical history of Brightcliffe, and the biographies of Brightcliffe’s other young residents, plus the spooky fictional tales they share around the fireplace each night as they wait for someone, finally, to make good on their pact to reach out from the other side once they’ve passed on.
Not all of the stories contained in The Midnight Club work equally well, and a few purposely don’t really work at all. Collectively, however, they mount a compelling case for why stories matter and why scary stories in particular do,...
- 10/7/2022
- by Angie Han
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Mike Flanagan has, of late, distinguished himself as one of Netflix’s signature creators and as a generational figure in the horror genre; though his past series for the streamer, including “Midnight Mass” and “The Haunting of Hill House,” have been of various quality overall and from episode to episode, they’re consistently interesting. His willingness to engage ideas with his scares sets him apart, perhaps more than it should.
So it is with “The Midnight Club,” which Flanagan and Leah Fong co-created based on the work of YA novelist Christopher Pike. Here, Iman Benson plays Ilonka, a college-bound high school salutatorian who receives a diagnosis of terminal cancer. Ilonka is both a star student and an idealist; she researches Brightcliffe, a facility to which her foster father can take her to be placed into hospice, and holds in reserve a secret hope that there will, there, be a miracle cure for her.
So it is with “The Midnight Club,” which Flanagan and Leah Fong co-created based on the work of YA novelist Christopher Pike. Here, Iman Benson plays Ilonka, a college-bound high school salutatorian who receives a diagnosis of terminal cancer. Ilonka is both a star student and an idealist; she researches Brightcliffe, a facility to which her foster father can take her to be placed into hospice, and holds in reserve a secret hope that there will, there, be a miracle cure for her.
- 10/7/2022
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
A Guinness World Record for the most scripted jump scares in a single episode of television has a claimant. Coincidentally, it’s a new series premiering on Netflix.
Series cocreator Mike Flanagan and his creative team were presented with a certificate honoring the new record of 21 jump scares at Netflix New York headquarters on Thursday. That’s just a day before his new series, The Midnight Club, bows on the streamer.
A representative for Guinness, adjudicator Andrew Glass, was in attendance to make it official.
Flanagan isn’t really a fan of jump scares, but decided he’d shut up those clamoring for more of them by going over the top in the new series.
“I thought, ‘We’re going to do all of them at once, and then if we do it right, a jump scare will be rendered meaningless for the rest of the series.
Series cocreator Mike Flanagan and his creative team were presented with a certificate honoring the new record of 21 jump scares at Netflix New York headquarters on Thursday. That’s just a day before his new series, The Midnight Club, bows on the streamer.
A representative for Guinness, adjudicator Andrew Glass, was in attendance to make it official.
Flanagan isn’t really a fan of jump scares, but decided he’d shut up those clamoring for more of them by going over the top in the new series.
“I thought, ‘We’re going to do all of them at once, and then if we do it right, a jump scare will be rendered meaningless for the rest of the series.
- 10/7/2022
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Mike Flanagan has faced his worst fear: The jump scare.
The “Midnight Mass” and “Haunting of Hill House” mastermind packed 21 separate instances of the classic horror trope into the premiere of his latest Netflix series, “The Midnight Club,” a tally so high it actually breaks the Guinness World Record for “most scripted jump scares in a single television episode.”
A Guinness World Record official presented Flanagan and Co. their certificate for the achievement during the “Midnight Club’s” New York Comic Con panel Thursday night, which included a preview of the premiere episode ahead of the show’s Friday launch.
“This is particularly important to me because I hate jump scares and I think they are the worst,” Flanagan told reporters during a press conference earlier Thursday. “My whole career, people have been like, put more jump scares in, and do them faster!”
Flanagan’s Intrepid Pictures producing partner Trevor Macy...
The “Midnight Mass” and “Haunting of Hill House” mastermind packed 21 separate instances of the classic horror trope into the premiere of his latest Netflix series, “The Midnight Club,” a tally so high it actually breaks the Guinness World Record for “most scripted jump scares in a single television episode.”
A Guinness World Record official presented Flanagan and Co. their certificate for the achievement during the “Midnight Club’s” New York Comic Con panel Thursday night, which included a preview of the premiere episode ahead of the show’s Friday launch.
“This is particularly important to me because I hate jump scares and I think they are the worst,” Flanagan told reporters during a press conference earlier Thursday. “My whole career, people have been like, put more jump scares in, and do them faster!”
Flanagan’s Intrepid Pictures producing partner Trevor Macy...
- 10/7/2022
- by Jennifer Maas
- Variety Film + TV
This first full week of October is a huge week for new horror, with 13 brand new horror movies arriving in theaters and on streaming. And the small screen is loaded with fresh horror, too.
One of horror’s most beloved slasher franchise icons makes his grand return to the small screen, for starters, while three brand new shows will be debuting this week as well.
Here’s all the new Horror TV arriving October 5 – October 9, 2022!
First up, “Chucky” Season 2 premieres on both Syfy and USA tonight, October 5, and the brand new season kicks off with a special Halloween-themed episode titled “Halloween II.”
“Chucky” is a continuation of the iconic film franchise chronicling the murderous escapades of the notorious killer doll. In the TV series, Chucky crosses paths with archenemies, old allies and new prey, as he seeks to inspire fear and mayhem wherever he goes. After his diabolical plan to...
One of horror’s most beloved slasher franchise icons makes his grand return to the small screen, for starters, while three brand new shows will be debuting this week as well.
Here’s all the new Horror TV arriving October 5 – October 9, 2022!
First up, “Chucky” Season 2 premieres on both Syfy and USA tonight, October 5, and the brand new season kicks off with a special Halloween-themed episode titled “Halloween II.”
“Chucky” is a continuation of the iconic film franchise chronicling the murderous escapades of the notorious killer doll. In the TV series, Chucky crosses paths with archenemies, old allies and new prey, as he seeks to inspire fear and mayhem wherever he goes. After his diabolical plan to...
- 10/5/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
The new live-action horror TV series "The Midnight Club", based on books by Christopher Pike, stars Iman Benson, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Annarah Cymone, Chris Sumpter, Adia, Aya Furukawa, Sauriyan Sapkota, Matt Biedel, Samantha Sloyan, Zach Gilford and Heather Langenkamp, streaming October 7, 2022 on Netflix:
"...in 1994, at a hospice with a mysterious history, the eight members of the 'Midnight Club' meet each night at midnight to tell sinister stories...
"...and to look for signs of the supernatural from the beyond..."
Click the images to enlarge...
"...in 1994, at a hospice with a mysterious history, the eight members of the 'Midnight Club' meet each night at midnight to tell sinister stories...
"...and to look for signs of the supernatural from the beyond..."
Click the images to enlarge...
- 10/3/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
The name "Mike Flanagan" might as well be a license to print money these days, with "The Haunting of Hill House," "The Haunting of Bly Manor," "Midnight Mass," "Gerald's Game," "Doctor Sleep," and just about anything else he's ever put his name on developing massive and dedicated fanbases. For the most part, Flanagain deals with the horrors of adulthood, but his new Netflix series "The Midnight Club" has him firmly in the teen sphere. Based on the book of the same name by prolific YA horror author Christopher Pike, "The Midnight Club" sees a group of terminally ill youngsters sharing scary stories with one another in hospice to pass the time, coming face to face with the ghastly horrors of their own creation.
Netflix released their final teaser trailer for the series today, prominently featuring a horror legend in her sinister supportive role. "A Nightmare on Elm Street" star and...
Netflix released their final teaser trailer for the series today, prominently featuring a horror legend in her sinister supportive role. "A Nightmare on Elm Street" star and...
- 9/30/2022
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
Image Source: Netflix
Another teen horror mystery is heading to Netflix this fall, and it's taking scary stories to a whole new level. During Netflix's Geeked Week on June 6, the streamer released the first look at its previously announced series "The Midnight Club," a TV adaptation of Christopher Pike's 1994 young-adult novel of the same name. Then, on Sept. 20, Netflix dropped the creepy first trailer for the series with a '90s-infused soundtrack to match the setting.
In it, a college-bound girl played by Iman Benson learns that she has terminal cancer. She's sent to Brightcliffe, a hospice with the aesthetics of a boarding school that caters to teenagers. She learns that most of the other residents have been there for a few months already. Eventually, she wants to explore the basement. She finds out the other residents have a club where they go to the library and tell ghost stories.
Another teen horror mystery is heading to Netflix this fall, and it's taking scary stories to a whole new level. During Netflix's Geeked Week on June 6, the streamer released the first look at its previously announced series "The Midnight Club," a TV adaptation of Christopher Pike's 1994 young-adult novel of the same name. Then, on Sept. 20, Netflix dropped the creepy first trailer for the series with a '90s-infused soundtrack to match the setting.
In it, a college-bound girl played by Iman Benson learns that she has terminal cancer. She's sent to Brightcliffe, a hospice with the aesthetics of a boarding school that caters to teenagers. She learns that most of the other residents have been there for a few months already. Eventually, she wants to explore the basement. She finds out the other residents have a club where they go to the library and tell ghost stories.
- 9/30/2022
- by Njera Perkins
- Popsugar.com
Netflix has launched the trailer for Mike Flanagan’s new horror series ‘The Midnight Club’ based on the novel by Christopher Pike.
At a hospice for terminally ill young adults, eight patients come together every night at midnight to tell each other stories — and make a pact that the next of them to die will give the group a sign from the beyond.
The 10-episode series stars Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard, William Chris Sumpter and Sauriyan Sapkota star alongside Heather Langenkamp as the enigmatic doctor presiding over Rotterdam Home.
Also in trailers – “I always wanted to be a part of something bigger…” Opulent trailer drops for Damien Chazelle’s ‘Babylon’
The series hits the streamer on October 7th.
The post Trailer lands for Mike Flanagan’s ‘The Midnight Club’ appeared first on HeyUGuys.
At a hospice for terminally ill young adults, eight patients come together every night at midnight to tell each other stories — and make a pact that the next of them to die will give the group a sign from the beyond.
The 10-episode series stars Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard, William Chris Sumpter and Sauriyan Sapkota star alongside Heather Langenkamp as the enigmatic doctor presiding over Rotterdam Home.
Also in trailers – “I always wanted to be a part of something bigger…” Opulent trailer drops for Damien Chazelle’s ‘Babylon’
The series hits the streamer on October 7th.
The post Trailer lands for Mike Flanagan’s ‘The Midnight Club’ appeared first on HeyUGuys.
- 9/21/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The new live-action horror series "The Midnight Club", based on books by Christopher Pike, stars Iman Benson, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Annarah Cymone, Chris Sumpter, Adia, Aya Furukawa, Sauriyan Sapkota, Matt Biedel, Samantha Sloyan, Zach Gilford and Heather Langenkamp, streaming October 7, 2022 on Netflix:
"...in 1994, at a hospice with a mysterious history, the eight members of the 'Midnight Club' meet each night at midnight to tell sinister stories...
"...and to look for signs of the supernatural from the beyond..."
Click the images to enlarge...
"...in 1994, at a hospice with a mysterious history, the eight members of the 'Midnight Club' meet each night at midnight to tell sinister stories...
"...and to look for signs of the supernatural from the beyond..."
Click the images to enlarge...
- 9/20/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
The Midnight Club, the latest Netflix series from Mike Flanagan – who previously brought us The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and Midnight Mass – will be reaching the streaming service on October 7th. Today, a trailer for the show has finally been released, and you can check it out in the embed above!
Drawing inspiration and its title from the 1994 novel by Christopher Pike (buy it Here), this ten episode series was created by Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong, who also serve as executive producers alongside Trevor Macy, Julia Bicknell, and Christopher Pike. The Midnight Club has the following synopsis:
At a hospice with a mysterious history, the eight members of the Midnight Club meet each night at midnight to tell sinister stories – and to look for signs of the supernatural from the beyond.
The show stars Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, William Chris Sumpter, Aya Furukawa,...
Drawing inspiration and its title from the 1994 novel by Christopher Pike (buy it Here), this ten episode series was created by Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong, who also serve as executive producers alongside Trevor Macy, Julia Bicknell, and Christopher Pike. The Midnight Club has the following synopsis:
At a hospice with a mysterious history, the eight members of the Midnight Club meet each night at midnight to tell sinister stories – and to look for signs of the supernatural from the beyond.
The show stars Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, William Chris Sumpter, Aya Furukawa,...
- 9/20/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Netflix gave fans their most extensive look yet at The Midnight Club on Tuesday.
The adaptation of Christopher Pike's 1994 novel of the same name is set to premiere on October 7.
"At a hospice with a mysterious history, the eight members of the Midnight Club meet each night at midnight to tell sinister stories – and to look for signs of the supernatural from the beyond," the logline reads.
"A new horror series from Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy’s Intrepid Pictures, and Leah Fong, based on the creative work of bestselling author Christopher Pike," Netflix teases.
The cast includes Iman Benson, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Annarah Cymone, Chris Sumpter, Adia, Aya Furukawa, Sauriyan Sapkota, Matt Biedel, Samantha Sloyan, Zach Gilford, and Heather Langenkamp.
Based on the official trailer, it looks like the series will be appealing to a younger audience than Flanagan's other works.
"One of the big things we...
The adaptation of Christopher Pike's 1994 novel of the same name is set to premiere on October 7.
"At a hospice with a mysterious history, the eight members of the Midnight Club meet each night at midnight to tell sinister stories – and to look for signs of the supernatural from the beyond," the logline reads.
"A new horror series from Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy’s Intrepid Pictures, and Leah Fong, based on the creative work of bestselling author Christopher Pike," Netflix teases.
The cast includes Iman Benson, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Annarah Cymone, Chris Sumpter, Adia, Aya Furukawa, Sauriyan Sapkota, Matt Biedel, Samantha Sloyan, Zach Gilford, and Heather Langenkamp.
Based on the official trailer, it looks like the series will be appealing to a younger audience than Flanagan's other works.
"One of the big things we...
- 9/20/2022
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Netflix has released the official trailer for Mike Flanagan’s new horror series “The Midnight Club.”
Based on novel of the same name by Christopher Pike, the 10-episode horror series follows a group of terminally ill patients in Rotterdam Home who gather at midnight to share scary stories. The group makes a pact to contact the others from beyond the grave should one of them perish.
The series stars Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard, William Chris Sumpter and Sauriyan Sapkota, with Heather Langenkamp as the enigmatic doctor presiding over Rotterdam Home.
The series is created by Flanagan and “The Haunting of Bly Manor” writer Leah Fong. Flanagan executive produces for Intrepid Pictures along with Trevor Macy and Adam Fasullo, Intrepid Pictures’ vice president of television. Fong also serves as an executive producer with Julia Bicknell and “The Midnight Club” author, Pike. Elan Gale, James Flanagan and...
Based on novel of the same name by Christopher Pike, the 10-episode horror series follows a group of terminally ill patients in Rotterdam Home who gather at midnight to share scary stories. The group makes a pact to contact the others from beyond the grave should one of them perish.
The series stars Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard, William Chris Sumpter and Sauriyan Sapkota, with Heather Langenkamp as the enigmatic doctor presiding over Rotterdam Home.
The series is created by Flanagan and “The Haunting of Bly Manor” writer Leah Fong. Flanagan executive produces for Intrepid Pictures along with Trevor Macy and Adam Fasullo, Intrepid Pictures’ vice president of television. Fong also serves as an executive producer with Julia Bicknell and “The Midnight Club” author, Pike. Elan Gale, James Flanagan and...
- 9/20/2022
- by Michaela Zee
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix has unveiled the official trailer for “The Midnight Club” series, and death abounds in the next show from “The Haunting of Hill House,” “The Haunting of Bly Manor” and “Midnight Mass” creator Mike Flanagan.
The show is based on the beloved Christopher Pike novel of the same name and takes place at a hospice with a mysterious history, where the eight members of the Midnight Club (all of whom are terminally ill) meet each night at midnight to tell sinister stories – and to look for signs of the supernatural from the beyond.
Mike Flanagan executive produces and directs the show alongside Trevor Macy through their Intrepid Pictures and Leah Fong. Flanagan and Fong are the show’s creators, while Pike serves as an executive producer.
The first season spans 10 one-hour episodes and stars Iman Benson, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Annarah Cymone, Chris Sumpter, Adia, Aya Furukawa, Sauriyan Sapkota, Matt Biedel,...
The show is based on the beloved Christopher Pike novel of the same name and takes place at a hospice with a mysterious history, where the eight members of the Midnight Club (all of whom are terminally ill) meet each night at midnight to tell sinister stories – and to look for signs of the supernatural from the beyond.
Mike Flanagan executive produces and directs the show alongside Trevor Macy through their Intrepid Pictures and Leah Fong. Flanagan and Fong are the show’s creators, while Pike serves as an executive producer.
The first season spans 10 one-hour episodes and stars Iman Benson, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Annarah Cymone, Chris Sumpter, Adia, Aya Furukawa, Sauriyan Sapkota, Matt Biedel,...
- 9/20/2022
- by Adam Chitwood
- The Wrap
Get ready, the Midnight Club is about to meet.
Young Adult horror is a very important, yet somehow rare thing. The horror genre is one of the most malleable ones out there, capable of adapting and molding to tell stories aimed at any demographic and offering something unique and valid. That's why it is especially important to have gateway horror stories for kids and young adults. Horror can help prepare young audiences for the real world in a way that is controlled and safe, offering a respite from real life and some understanding of the real world — all while scaring the hell out of them.
We've had some great YA horror in recent years, from the "Fear Street" movie trilogy and "There's Someone Inside Your House" and "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark." Truly, it feels like younger audiences are finally getting their due, and it's about to get better,...
Young Adult horror is a very important, yet somehow rare thing. The horror genre is one of the most malleable ones out there, capable of adapting and molding to tell stories aimed at any demographic and offering something unique and valid. That's why it is especially important to have gateway horror stories for kids and young adults. Horror can help prepare young audiences for the real world in a way that is controlled and safe, offering a respite from real life and some understanding of the real world — all while scaring the hell out of them.
We've had some great YA horror in recent years, from the "Fear Street" movie trilogy and "There's Someone Inside Your House" and "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark." Truly, it feels like younger audiences are finally getting their due, and it's about to get better,...
- 9/20/2022
- by Rafael Motamayor
- Slash Film
When the clock strikes midnight, the scary stories come to life.
Netflix’s “The Midnight Club,” adapted from Christopher Pike’s novel series of the same name, is created by “The Haunting of Hill House” and “Midnight Mass” showrunner Mike Flanagan. The series premieres October 7.
Set in 1994, the 10-episode season takes place at Brightcliffe Hospice, a home for terminally ill teenagers to pass away peacefully on their own terms. Yet Stanford University-bound teen Ilonka (Iman Benson) is skeptical after being admitted following a thyroid cancer diagnosis, and the hospice has its own spooky history waiting to be uncovered. As Ilonka and seven other patients form the Midnight Club, a storytelling group that meets at midnight, the halls of Brightcliffe coming to life…literally. The club makes a pact that the next of them to die will give the group a sign from the beyond and “make ghosts” of each other.
Netflix’s “The Midnight Club,” adapted from Christopher Pike’s novel series of the same name, is created by “The Haunting of Hill House” and “Midnight Mass” showrunner Mike Flanagan. The series premieres October 7.
Set in 1994, the 10-episode season takes place at Brightcliffe Hospice, a home for terminally ill teenagers to pass away peacefully on their own terms. Yet Stanford University-bound teen Ilonka (Iman Benson) is skeptical after being admitted following a thyroid cancer diagnosis, and the hospice has its own spooky history waiting to be uncovered. As Ilonka and seven other patients form the Midnight Club, a storytelling group that meets at midnight, the halls of Brightcliffe coming to life…literally. The club makes a pact that the next of them to die will give the group a sign from the beyond and “make ghosts” of each other.
- 9/20/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Netflix and Mike Flanagan (“The Haunting of Hill House,” “Midnight Mass”) introduce “The Midnight Club” this Halloween, a series adaptation of Christopher Pike‘s 1994 novel that will also adapt other Pike stories.
“The Midnight Club” is set to premiere on October 7, and today we have the official trailer!
In the series, “At a manor with a mysterious history, the 8 members of the Midnight Club meet each night at midnight to tell sinister stories – and to look for signs of the supernatural from the beyond.”
Flanagan is adapting Pike’s tales alongside Leah Fong (“Once Upon a Time”), and Flanagan directed some of the episodes. But he’s not the only director for the new series.
The full lineup of directors for Netflix’s “Midnight Club” also includes…
Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour (Black Box) Axelle Carolyn (“Bly Manor,” “Creepshow”) Viet Nguyen (“Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”) Morgan Beggs (“Once Upon a Time”) Michael Fimognari...
“The Midnight Club” is set to premiere on October 7, and today we have the official trailer!
In the series, “At a manor with a mysterious history, the 8 members of the Midnight Club meet each night at midnight to tell sinister stories – and to look for signs of the supernatural from the beyond.”
Flanagan is adapting Pike’s tales alongside Leah Fong (“Once Upon a Time”), and Flanagan directed some of the episodes. But he’s not the only director for the new series.
The full lineup of directors for Netflix’s “Midnight Club” also includes…
Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour (Black Box) Axelle Carolyn (“Bly Manor,” “Creepshow”) Viet Nguyen (“Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”) Morgan Beggs (“Once Upon a Time”) Michael Fimognari...
- 9/20/2022
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Netflix and Mike Flanagan (“The Haunting of Hill House,” “Midnight Mass”) introduce “The Midnight Club” this Halloween, a series adaptation of Christopher Pike‘s 1994 novel that will also adapt other Pike stories. “The Midnight Club” is set to premiere on October 7, and Bloody Disgusting has just shared a pair of new images.
The stills reveal our very first look at Falasngan regular, Matt Biedel, who also appears in “Midnight Mass” and the upcoming “The Fall of the House of Usher”.
Biedel is pictured with Iman Benson who plays Ilonka.
Incredibly smart and driven, Ilonka has her plan for the future, but that comes to a screeching halt when she receives her terminal diagnosis. Her determination to survive leads her to Brightcliffe, where she hopes past cases of miraculous recoveries will help her. Biedel plays her guardian in the series.
Flanagan is adapting Pike’s tales alongside Leah Fong (“Once Upon...
The stills reveal our very first look at Falasngan regular, Matt Biedel, who also appears in “Midnight Mass” and the upcoming “The Fall of the House of Usher”.
Biedel is pictured with Iman Benson who plays Ilonka.
Incredibly smart and driven, Ilonka has her plan for the future, but that comes to a screeching halt when she receives her terminal diagnosis. Her determination to survive leads her to Brightcliffe, where she hopes past cases of miraculous recoveries will help her. Biedel plays her guardian in the series.
Flanagan is adapting Pike’s tales alongside Leah Fong (“Once Upon...
- 9/9/2022
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Netflix’s 2022 “Netflix & Chills” lineup will include a documentary series on Jeffrey Dahmer, Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, and a thriller based on true events and starring Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne. The Halloween-inspired September and October slate also includes a feature film based on a Stephen King story as well as Wendell & Wild, a new animated film written by Henry Selick and Jordan Peele.
Marlon Wayans and Kelly Rowland serve up more family-friendly frights in The Curse of Bridge Hollow, while Charlize Theron and Kerry Washington lead the star-studded cast of the fantasy film, The School for Good and Evil. The 2022 “Netflix & Chills” schedule also offers a few kids series, a couple of action thrillers, and the return of Unsolved Mysteries.
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- 9/6/2022
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Nobody's telling horror stories quite like Mike Flanagan right now. His films and TV shows are equal parts heartbreaking and terrifying. His characters are often holding onto deep-seated emotional wounds, many of which are brought painfully to the surface in the face of some monstrous threat or supernatural danger. Even when he's adapting the works of literary titans like Stephen King and Shirley Jackson, Flanagan carefully re-works and re-purposes the source material, making it firmly his own.
His latest Netflix series, "The Midnight Club," once again sees Flanagan adapting someone else's work, this time that of Christopher Pike's 1994 young adult horror novel of the same name, with "Once Upon a Time" alum Leah Fong serving as the show's co-creator. Flanagan was among the young readers who took to Pike's book upon its release and he's been hoping to adapt it to the screen ever since. With its premiere...
His latest Netflix series, "The Midnight Club," once again sees Flanagan adapting someone else's work, this time that of Christopher Pike's 1994 young adult horror novel of the same name, with "Once Upon a Time" alum Leah Fong serving as the show's co-creator. Flanagan was among the young readers who took to Pike's book upon its release and he's been hoping to adapt it to the screen ever since. With its premiere...
- 9/1/2022
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
Netflix and Mike Flanagan introduce “The Midnight Club” this Halloween, a series adaptation of Christopher Pike‘s 1994 novel that will also adapt other Pike stories. “The Midnight Club” is set to premiere on October 7, and Empire Online has just shared a new image along with fresh insights from Flanagan.
“One of the big things we assumed was that the younger viewers could handle scares,” Flanagan tells Empire, indicating that the terror of his latest series hasn’t been toned down for a younger audience. He says of Pike’s work in general, “He wrote some pretty advanced stuff for his younger readers, and it was not at all uncommon for his teenage characters to die, pretty shockingly. His books were full of things I found really exciting and thrilling and dark.”
“So I became a bit of an addict,” Flanagan adds.
Flanagan is adapting Pike’s tales alongside Leah Fong...
“One of the big things we assumed was that the younger viewers could handle scares,” Flanagan tells Empire, indicating that the terror of his latest series hasn’t been toned down for a younger audience. He says of Pike’s work in general, “He wrote some pretty advanced stuff for his younger readers, and it was not at all uncommon for his teenage characters to die, pretty shockingly. His books were full of things I found really exciting and thrilling and dark.”
“So I became a bit of an addict,” Flanagan adds.
Flanagan is adapting Pike’s tales alongside Leah Fong...
- 9/1/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
The Midnight Club is coming soon to Netflix. The streaming service has announced a premiere date and released the first photos for the upcoming horror series. Iman Benson, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Annarah Cymone, Chris Sumpter, Adia, Aya Furukawa, Sauriyan Sapkota, Matt Biedel, Samantha Sloyan, Zach Gilford and Heather Langenkamp star in the series which is based on the works of author Christopher Pike.
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- 8/19/2022
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
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