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What Do We Know About the upcoming series adaptation of Stephen King’s novel Carrie? More than you may think. The Prime Video series from The Life of Chuck and The Haunting of Hill House filmmaker Mike Flanagan is set to be his fourth take on a work by King. From plot, casting news, and more, let’s dive in and look at what is coming up in the adaptation of the classic horror novel.

Why another remake of Carrie?

Despite Brian De Palma’s 1976 adaptation remaining a classic horror film, multiple variations of Stephen King’s debut novel have made their way to audiences. From a sequel in 1999 to remakes in both 2002 and 2013, as well as a stage musical, Flanagan’s series takes a “bold and timely reimagining” of the book. What this entails remains to be seen. But, we do know that Flanagan has a reverence for Stephen...

Exclusive: Netflix has laid off a handful of executives in its drama and overall deals divisions.

Deadline understands that the streamer has made a small number of cuts including Alex Sapot and Pete Corona.

Sapot has been with the company for over seven years and was director, original series. She was behind overall deals including with Kalinda Vazquez, who was on Star Trek: Discovery and Fear The Walking Dead and Dmz creator Roberto Patino. She previously worked out of London and was one of those responsible for commissioning Sex Education and The End Of The F***ing World.

Pete Corona was Director of Drama Series and was with the company for over five years. He also helped champion Afro Latino and Indigenous Latino filmmakers at the streamer and previously worked at Marvel. He was behind series including Fubar, Resident Evil and Haunting of Bly Manor.

Laura Delahaye, who was Director, Overall Deals,...

"No good thing lasts forever" feels like the sort of poignant theme you'd expect to pop up in a Mike Flanagan horror project. So it goes in real life, too, with Flanagan's latest series, the Edgar Allan Poe-inspired modern Gothic drama "The Fall of the House of Usher" (read /Film's review by Chris Evangelista here), slated to serve as his final Netflix offering.

Since his breakout success on the horror film "Oculus," Flanagan has become synonymous with the streamer's scarier output. In addition to directing Netflix's "Gerald's Game" (an all-timer among Stephen King film adaptations that features one of the gnarliest moments put to screen in recent memory), he created the company's acclaimed "Haunting" anthology series, as well as the polarizing but deeply fascinating religious horror drama show "Midnight Mass." So why is Flanagan done with Netflix? The short answer is that he and his producing partner, Trevor Macy,...

The Fall of the House of Usher is a new Netflix drama based on Edgar Allan Poe's classic tales, focusing on the Usher family and their corrupt pharmaceutical company. A new clip introduces the Usher family and their dynamic, showcasing some tension and banter between the characters. The series, created by Mike Flanagan, features both familiar and new collaborators, promising an intriguing and gripping story.

A new clip from the The Fall of the House of Usher shows the central family all together before a demon hunts them down. Consisting of eight episodes, the Mike Flanagan-created drama is based on Edgar Allan Poe's classic tales. In the series, the focus will be on the Usher family, who own the corrupt company Fortunato Pharmaceuticals. A string of unexplainable and cruel deaths begin to haunt the family, as their shady past emerges and leads to their downfall. To tell the story,...

A new poster for Mike Flanagan's upcoming horror series "The Fall of the House of Usher" has been released, featuring a bloody family portrait. The show, Flanagan's final project with Netflix based on several Edgar Allan Poe tales, follows the Usher family and their corrupt company, Fortunato Pharmaceuticals, as they face unexplainable deaths and their shady past. The ensemble cast includes familiar faces from Flanagan's previous works, as well as Mark Hamill and Carl Lumbly, and the series will debut on October 12.

A new poster for The Fall of the House of Usher reveals a bloody family portrait for Mike Flanagan's upcoming horror series. During his time at Netflix, which will come to an end with The Fall of the House of Usher, Flanagan has created several memorable shows that carry his signature style and speak to the themes that interest him most, including The Haunting of Hill House,...

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…...

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.

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...

Mike Flanagan has expressed his “disappointment” with Netflix’s latest cancellation.

The writer-director, who is known for his horror output, including Doctor Sleep, has made projects for the streaming service since 2016.

These included TV shows The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor and Midnight Mass.

It was announced on Thursday (1 December) that Flanagan’s production company, Intrepid, had jumped from Netflix to Amazon Studios.

The following day (2 December), Netflix announced the cancellation of Flanagan’s most recent series, teen horror show The Midnight Club, less than two months after its debut. He co-created the series, which was based on the book by Christopher Pike, with Leah Fong.

Flanagan spoke out against the streaming service for its decision, writing on Twitter: “I'm very disappointed that Netflix has decided not to pursue a second season of The Midnight Club.”

He used the opportunity to clear up a selection...

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 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...

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,...

The Midnight Club has been canceled by Netflix after just one season. Debuting on Netflix back in October, The Midnight Club is an adaptation of the 1994 book by Christopher Pike. The story centers around a group of terminally ill teenagers at the Brightcliffe Hospice who meet up nightly as part of the titular club, commiserating and trading scary stories. As they form connections and try to come to terms with loss, strange occurrences begin to offer the group reasons to hope and reasons to be afraid. In contrast to previous shows from Mike Flanagan, who co-created the young adult drama with Leah Fong, The Midnight Club was intended as an ongoing series and even ended on a cliffhanger.

But now, as reported by TheWrap, Netflix has opted to cancel The Midnight Club after season 1. The news comes hours after the announcement that Flanagan and his creative partner Mike Tracy are...

Hot on the heels of the news that Mike Flanagan is departing Netflix in a new exclusive deal with Amazon Studios comes the unfortunate but not-so-surprising confirmation that "The Midnight Club" has been canceled.

Unlike Flanagan's previous Netflix efforts, "The Haunting of Hill House," "The Haunting of Bly Manor," "Midnight Mass," and the upcoming "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Midnight Club" was not meant to be a miniseries. Co-created by Flanagan and Leah Fong, the show, per the official Netflix synopsis, centers on "a hospice for terminally ill young adults," where "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." It's based on the book of the same name by Christopher Pike, but the central premise of teens meeting to tell stories allowed...

It’s all over for The Midnight Club on Netflix, as the young adult series has been canceled after one season.

Word of the cancellation comes on the heels of news that series’ executive producers Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy are leaving Netflix for an overall deal with Amazon Studios. Their Intrepid Pictures had been under a Netflix deal since 2019.

Adapted from a book by Christopher Pike, the story examined terminally ill teens living at Brightcliffe Hospice, a spooky mansion with its own secrets.

The 10-episode first season revolves a group of five young men and women who met at midnight and told stories of intrigue and horror. One night they make a pact that the first of them to die would make every effort to contact the others from beyond the grave.

Flanagan and Leah Fong co-created the series and executive produced with Intrepid’s Macy, along with Julia Bicknell and Pike.

The Midnight Club has told its final tale. The supernatural thriller has been cancelled at Netflix, mere hours after it was reported that series co-creator Mike Flanagan, along with Trevor Macy, has signed a production deal — via their Intrepid Pictures — with Amazon Studios.

The Wrap was first to report the news.

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Based on Christopher Pike’s 1994 novel — and co-created by The Haunting of Bly Manor...

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.

Warning: Contains spoilers for The Midnight Club season 1. Mike Flanagan's Netflix series The Midnight Club had an uncharacteristically open-ended finale, suggesting that there's more to come. Based on the novel by Christopher Pike, The Midnight Club centers around a group of terminally ill teenagers, who meet at midnight to share scary stories with one another. The anthology elements of each member of the club's horror story run alongside the larger story of the mystery behind the Brightcliffe Home hospice, which has historic connections to the mysterious Paragon cult.

The mystery of Brightcliffe and the Paragon cult isn't resolved at the end of The Midnight Club, which is at odds with the self-contained storytelling of earlier Flanagan miniseries like The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass. While those shows may have had endings that were open to interpretation, they didn't have the loose ends of The Midnight Club's finale.

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.

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The Midnight Club. Heather Langenkamp as Dr. Georgia Stanton in episode 102 of The Midnight Club. Cr. Eike Schroter/Netflix © 2022

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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,...

You likely know horror icon Heather Langenkamp from her iconic final girl role as Nancy Thompson in the 1980s slasher franchise A Nightmare on Elm Street. Langenkamp has recently re-entered the horror stratosphere with her stand-out role in Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong's latest Netflix series The Midnight Club. What you may not know is that in the years between these two iconic roles, Langenkamp made a brief appearance in another legendary franchise: Star Trek. The actress recently sat down with Collider's Perri Nemiroff for an interview in which she told Nemiroff about her time in the Kelvinverse movie Star Trek Into Darkness.

Exclusive: Ron Perlman (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio), Yolonda Ross (The Chi) and Daniel Diemer (The Midnight Club) will star opposite Liam Neeson in the mob thriller Thug, reteaming the Oscar nominee with Cold Pursuit director Hans Petter Moland.

The film from Sculptor Media and Electromagnetic Production, which is currently shooting in Boston, revolves around an aging Boston gangster (Neeson) who attempts to reconnect with his children and rectify the mistakes in his past, though the criminal underworld won’t loosen its grip willingly.

Tony Gayton (Hell on Wheels) wrote the screenplay. Sculptor Media’s Warren Goz and Eric Gold are producing alongside Roger Birnbaum (Rush Hour franchise) and Michael Besman (About Schmidt) for Electromagnetic Productions, as well as Force Majeure (Copshop). Mark Kimsey is exec producing along with James Masciello, Matt Sidari and Mitchell Zhang of Raven, which has a slate financing and production partnership with Sculptor Media and is financing Thug.

This article contains Spoilers for The Midnight Club season 1The Midnight Club co-creator Mike Flanagan discusses that big twist involving Dr. Stanton. An adaptation of the 1994 book by Christopher Pike, The Midnight Club sees Flanagan turn his attention to younger audiences by following a group of terminally ill teenagers at a hospice who meet up nightly to connect and tell each other scary stories. The series, which debuted on Netflix earlier this month, also teases several supernatural occurrences that are taking place just underneath the surface.

The show does leave a lot open for interpretation, however. Even though The Midnight Club season 1 ends with a number of unanswered questions, especially about the elderly ghosts that may or may not be roaming the hospice, it is so far up to the audience to decide whether the supernatural component is legitimate. Flanagan has promised to address the lingering threads, even if Netflix...

Mike Flanagan is known for his heady, deeply emotional ventures into horror, with projects like "The Haunting of Hill House," "The Haunting of Bly Manor," "Midnight Mass," "Doctor Sleep," and "Gerald's Game" all generating massive fan bases and solidifying Flanagan as a modern horror master. His latest venture takes him out of his usual realm of adults dealing with the most and puts him into "The Midnight Club," inspired by the Christopher Pike novel of the same name. The series sees a group of terminally ill teenagers living at the Brightcliffe Hospice facility run by the mysterious Dr. Georgina Stanton, who meet at midnight to share ghost stories that become terrifyingly real.

Critics and audiences alike can't seem to agree on how to feel about "The Midnight Club," but with over 80 books to adapt from Christopher Pike's catalog, there's nothing that says "The Midnight Club" has to end after its debut season.

Anthology series are hard. In exchange for episode-to-episode variety in visuals, characters, and tone, TV creators working in the format have to make seemingly unconnected stories connect and matter together. It’s a risk to show an audience a storytelling mode and so thrill them that they start wishing the rest of the series did that too; when presented with a type of story they dislike, they might disengage until the credits roll. Because every story ends.

“The Midnight Club” raises the stakes for itself by nesting hair-raising tales from the catalog of Christopher Pike within a cultish conspiracy to maybe cheat death, hidden beneath the facade of a hospice for terminally ill teens.”We were really excited about the format — you know, the kind of Christopher Pike-Russian doll thing,” series co-creator Leah Fong told IndieWire. “It was a structurally very ambitious thing.”

That excitement extended into the writers’ room’s process,...

Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for all of Season 1 of The Midnight Club.“We are all stories in the end.” The Eleventh Doctor’s maxim rings truer than ever in Mike Flanagan’s new Netflix series, The Midnight Club, co-created with Leah Fong. Based on the book of the same title by Christopher Pike, the series tells the story of Ilonka (Iman Benson), a top-of-the-class teenager who moves to Brightcliffe Hospice after being diagnosed with terminal thyroid cancer. There, she meets a group of fellow kids that get together at night to share stories - most of them, spine-chilling tales about serial killers, deals with the devil, and screaming ghosts. But the stories of the Midnight Club aren’t mere works of fiction. They also tell us a lot about the children that came up with them. For instance, Natsuki’s (Aya Furukawa) tale about a girl that runs...

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,...

Contrary to other Intrepid Pictures series, such as Midnight Mass and the Haunting of Hill House, The Midnight Club is very open-ended, which teases a second season might be on its way. That’s precisely how creators Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong imagine The Midnight Club, and they already have a clear direction to follow if Netflix decides to renew the show. In an exclusive interview with Flanagan, Fong, and Intrepid Pictures’ Trevor Macy, Collider’s own Perri Nemiroff got to talk about Season 2 of The Midnight Club and how the story will handle its cast of terminal characters.

A brand new Netflix show has just broken the world record for the most jump scares in a single episode.

The horror series, which is available to stream now, has been presented with the Guinness World Record after earning the achievement.

This is certainly good press for the new show, which is called The Midnight Club.

It comes from co-creator Mike Flanagan, whose previous projects for Netflix include The Haunting of Hill House, its follow-up The Haunting of Bly Manor and 2021’s Midnight Mass.

Flanagan has also directed the films Hush and the adaptation of Stephen King’s sequel to The Shining, titled Doctor Sleep.

The irony of the world record is that Flanagan has been vocal about his dislike of jump scares in the past.

“My whole career I completely s*** on jump scares as a concept, and I wanted to make sure it was pinned to me, too,...

A brand new Netflix show has just broken the world record for the most jump scares in a single episode.

The horror series, which is available to stream now, has been presented with the Guinness World Record after earning the achievement.

This is certainly good press for the new show, which is called The Midnight Club.

It comes from co-creator Mike Flanagan, whose previous projects for Netflix include The Haunting of Hill House, its follow-up The Haunting of Bly Manor and 2021’s Midnight Mass.

Flanagan has also directed the films Hush and the adaptation of Stephen King’s sequel to The Shining, titled Doctor Sleep.

The irony of the world record is that Flanagan has been vocal about his dislike of jump scares in the past.

“My whole career I completely s*** on jump scares as a concept, and I wanted to make sure it was pinned to me, too,...

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Season 1 of The Midnight Club.] Creator Mike Flanagan‘s latest Netflix series The Midnight Club is another turning point for the horror extraordinaire — one that dives deep into 1990s nostalgia. For starters, it’s Flanagan’s first open-ended series. It hasn’t been renewed yet for a second season, but it easily could be, unlike his limited series The Haunting of Hill House and Bly Manor and Midnight Mass. “We’ve done so much with limited series in the past, the idea of trying to make a show that would still wrap up in a satisfying way, but could continue, was something that was really tough,” Flanagan admitted to TV Insider during New York Comic Con, alongside fellow executive producers Leah Fong and Trevor Macy. The Midnight Club is also targeting a younger audience. The series follows a group of young adults in a hospice who struggle with a host of dilemmas...

Mike Flanagan is not one to repeat himself. The horror filmmaker hand been cranking out excellent horror films like “Oculus,” “Ouija: Origin of Evil” and “Gerald’s Game” when he started crafting horror shows for Netflix, carving out a niche with binge-worthy limited series like the Shirley Jackson adaptation “The Haunting of Hill House,” the Henry James love story “The Haunting of Bly Manor” and the religion-centric vampire drama “Midnight Mass.” And for his next trick, Flanagan is trying something he’s never done before: kick off an ongoing series.

“The Midnight Club” is based on the Christopher Pike book of the same name and follows a group of teens at a hospice for terminally ill kids who gather at midnight every night to tell each other ghost stories. Flanagan admits in an interview with TheWrap that leaving things off on a cliffhanger is not deeply comfortable for him, and he...

Mike Flanagan is known for keeping creative partners and cast members at arms reach, ensuring he always has a very talented team working with him on movies and TV shows. Even so, each new Flanagan production brings new people on board, in front and behind the cameras. For The Midnight Club, Flanagan found a series co-creator in Leah Fong while still producing the series with Trevor Macy through their Intrepid Pictures banner. In an exclusive interview with Flanagan, Macy, and Fong, Collider’s own Perri Nemiroff got to discuss how Flanagan and Macy choose their coworkers and how they always manage to find so many gifted cast and crew members.

From The Haunting of Hill House and Bly Manor to Midnight Mass and Gerald’s Game, filmmaker Mike Flanagan has become a horror icon with his Netflix productions. His latest project, The Midnight Club, is a distinct offering from the man who has become a Halloween mainstay on the streaming platform. Along with co-creator Leah Fong, Mike Flanagan has adapted the title novel by Christopher Pike into a ten-episode series that blends horror, drama, and a unique format to bring a series of tales to the screen that will surprise and frighten everyone who checks it out.

Set at an exclusive hospice called Brightcliffe, The Midnight Club follows a group of terminally ill teenagers assembled for their final days. Each night, the group meets to share scary stories with each other and promises that they will reach out from beyond when the first of them dies. As the series progresses,...

Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong’s The Midnight Club is filled with deeply emotional moments. In the case of Sandra (Annarah Cymone), her game-changing scene came in Episode 9, right before the season finale. So it’s no wonder that during an interview with the series’ main cast, Collider’s own Perri Nemiroff had to ask Cymone how she handled Sandra’s misdiagnosis discovery.

This post contains spoilers for "The Midnight Club."

"The Midnight Club" hit Netflix over the weekend, and the new horror series features more than just the many familiar faces of past Mike Flanagan works. On the cast list, nestled between Flanaverse favorites like Rahul Kohli and Henry Thomas and talented up-and-comers like Ruth Codd, is one of the best scream queens of all time: actor, producer, and special makeup effects coordinator Heather Langenkamp.

Langenkamp's name will likely be familiar for anyone who grew up on a steady diet of '80s horror films. The actress had her breakout role in 1984's "A Nightmare on Elm Street," where she played terrorized yet resilient 15-year-old Nancy Thompson. When Nancy and her friend Tina (Amanda Wyss) begin having nightmares about a knife-handed man who seems intent on hurting them despite living in their unconscious minds, the legend of Freddy Kreuger is born.

While...

Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong’s The Midnight Club follows a group of terminal young adults who gather together at night to share ghost stories. Each episode of the series doubles down as a horror anthology, in which a new horror story is told by one of the members of the Midnight Club. Unfortunately, the only member who never tells a story is Cheri (Adia), which got us thinking about what her horror story could be like. That’s why during an interview with the series’ main cast, Collider’s own Perri Nemiroff asked Adia how she imagined a Cherri story playing out.

The Midnight Club is shaping up to be one of the most significant new horror shows to join the ranks on Netflix this spooky season. Based on the 1994 novel of the same name by Christopher Pike, The Midnight Club has been in the works since early 2020, with Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong at the helm. The series premiered exclusively on Netflix on October 7, 2022.

Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for The Midnight Club.The Midnight Club is all about death. By following a group of terminal patients living the last months of their lives in a hospice, series creators Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong explore the existential dread of contemplating the oblivion that awaits us at the grave. It’s no wonder that the characters of The Midnight Club hold tight to any kind of hope, sometimes with dire consequences for all. Through magical rituals and alternative healing routines, the young adults of Brightcliffe fight as they can against the terrible end that waits for them. At the same time, they vow to reach out from the other side after their time comes, to tell their friends that death is not the end and there’s no reason to be afraid. The Midnight Club is a beautiful exploration of how faith and hope...

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.

Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers from The Midnight Club. Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong’s The Midnight Club follows a group of terminal young adults spending the last months of their lives together at a hospice. As expected, the series dives deep into the effects a terminal diagnosis has on a person, especially when the patients are so young, with so much to live for. However, while questions of mortality, and morality, are at the center of The Midnight Club, the series is actually all about storytelling. To help them pass the time and deal with their very complicated issues, the patients of Brightcliffe gather around in the library every night, just as the clock marks midnight. There is a pact among the patients, through which they promise to send signs from the beyond when they die, but the Midnight Club is mostly about telling horror stories. And every...

Editor's Note: The following article contains spoilers for Season 1 of The Midnight Club. Created by Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong, The Midnight Club follows a group of terminal patients of Brightcliffe, a hospice dedicated to young adults. The series follows the group as they come to terms with their unfair situation and learn how to embrace death as a way to enjoy the little life that’s left on them. One of the main tools these young people use for dealing with the hardships of life is horror stories, tales they share in the library when the clock rings at midnight. That’s where the series name comes from, as the members of the Midnight Club take turns to scare their friends and share horror stories closely related to their personal experiences with death and sickness.

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Episode 7 of The Midnight Club.

If your heart hadn’t already been shattered by The Midnight Club, “Anya” surely finished the job.

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A brand new Netflix show has just broken the world record for the most jump scares in a single episode.

The horror series, which is available to stream now, has been presented with the Guinness World Record after earning the achievement.

This is certainly good press for the new show, which is called The Midnight Club.

It comes from co-creator Mike Flanagan, whose previous projects for Netflix include The Haunting of Hill House, its follow-up The Haunting of Bly Manor and 2021’s Midnight Mass.

Flanagan has also directed the films Hush and the adaptation of Stephen King’s sequel to The Shining, titled Doctor Sleep.

The irony of the world record is that Flanagan has been vocal about his dislike of jump scares in the past.

“My whole career I completely s*** on jump scares as a concept, and I wanted to make sure it was pinned to me, too,...

The following contains mild spoilers for The Midnight Club.The Midnight Club keeps Mike Flanagan’s tradition of using horror to explore trauma and existential dread. Created by Flanagan and Leah Fong, the series deals with these complex subjects by giving voice to a group of terminal teenagers and young adults. While there’s a lot to unpack in The Midnight Club, the series deviates from Flanagan’s previous works by mixing the expected horror drama with an anthology format, in which each episode presents a brand new story to the audience. Contrary to most anthologies, though, every story of The Midnight Club is excellent. And that’s not only because each tale explores a different horror trope but mainly because each story has meaning. Since each individual story connects to the overall drama of The Midnight Club, the anthology format actually serves a greater purpose. For that reason, The Midnight Club...

In Netflix’s The Midnight Club, a terminally ill girl meets a group of kids that will forever change her life… whatever’s left of it, at least.

Based on Christopher Pike’s 1994 novel — and co-created by The Haunting of Bly Manor vets Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong — the story centers on eight ailing teenagers who reside at Brightcliffe Hospice, “a place for terminal teenagers to transition on their own terms.” Upon arriving at Brightcliffe and meeting her sick peers, thyroid cancer patient Ilonka (played by Alexa & Katie‘s Iman Benson) is welcomed into the titular club, which meets at...

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,...

Editor's note: The below contains major spoilers for the ending of The Midnight Club.The Midnight Club has a depressing background, as it tells the story of a group of terminal young people who meet at a hospice, a place they go to wait for death. Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong’s new series might be grim and even depressing sometimes. Still, by the end of the season, it becomes clear this is another horror tale about accepting death as a natural part of life, just like Flanagan’s previous shows, especially Midnight Mass.

Mike Flanagan is as sentimental about storytelling as he is about horror, for better and for worse. Sometimes that has led to a unique heartbeat in his work—the aching pain in his landmark Shirley Jackson adaptation “The Haunting of Hill House,” or his dedication to making us see the demons of “The Shining” in a different light with his unfairly maligned feature “Doctor Sleep.” But his latest project, co-created with Leah Fong, shows that affinity getting the better of him.

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Jump scares are an essential part of horror, but it's one of those things that a lot of people feel can be cheap or unnecessary. There is certainly a conversation to be had in that regard but when done correctly, they can be incredibly effective -- just watch "The Exorcist III." Now, quantity over quality isn't always the way to go but Mike Flanagan, the man behind "The Haunting of Hill House" and "Doctor Sleep," just set the record in that department (literally) with his new show, "The Midnight Club."

As reported by Variety, Flanagan and his collaborators now hold the Guinness World Record "most scripted jump scares in a single television episode." There are a grand total of 21 jump scares packed into the premiere episode of the show, which is the filmmaker's latest collaboration with Netflix. "This is particularly important to me because I hate jump scares and I think they are the worst,...