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On Friday, November 17, 2023, at 10:00 Pm on AMC, “Creepshow” returns with an intriguing double-feature episode: “George Romero in 3-D!; Baby Teeth.” This series continues to serve up chilling tales and dark humor, perfect for those who relish a good scare.

In the first story, a struggling bookstore owner stumbles upon a trove of unpublished works by the legendary George Romero. However, what should have been a literary treasure soon leads to a series of new troubles. Viewers can anticipate a spine-tingling journey into the world of the undead and the unknown.

The second part of the episode revolves around Shelby’s mom, who grapples with the reality that her baby is growing up. In an attempt to hold onto the past, she clings to childhood relics, believing it to be harmless. But as the story unfolds, it becomes clear that these relics might hold more sinister secrets than expected.

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Hey there, horror fans! Get ready for a chilling episode of “Creepshow.” On Friday, November 10, 2023, at 11:00 Pm on AMC, Season 4, Episode 5, presents “Something Burrowed, Something Blue” and “Doodles.”

In “Something Burrowed, Something Blue,” a young couple receives a gift that fulfills all their wishes. However, not everything is as it seems. This tale promises spine-tingling twists and turns.

In “Doodles,” we follow the journey of an aspiring comic artist who keeps running into obstacles. It’s a story that combines creativity and the supernatural in a way that’ll leave you guessing.

“Creepshow” is known for its creepy and suspenseful stories that often take unexpected turns. It’s a show for those who enjoy a good scare and a sense of mystery.

Tune in to AMC to catch these spooky stories. If you’re a fan of horror and the macabre, this episode is a must-watch. It’s a...

This Friday, November 3, 2023, at 10:00 Pm on AMC, viewers can delve into the world of horror and suspense with the latest episode of “Creepshow.”

In this episode, titled “Meet the Belaskos; Cheat Code,” two distinct and spine-chilling stories unfold. First, “The Belaskos” move next door to a suburbanite with an intense hatred for vampires. Their seemingly peaceful new neighborhood takes a dark and terrifying turn as they discover the true nature of their neighbor.

In the second story, a father and son share a bonding experience by playing an old video game. However, their innocent fun quickly turns into a nightmare as they uncover the sinister reason why the game was abandoned.

Horror enthusiasts and fans of suspenseful storytelling won’t want to miss this episode of “Creepshow” on Friday, November 3, at 10:00 Pm on AMC.

Release Date & Time: 10:00 Pm Friday 3 November 2023 on AMC

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On Friday, October 27, 2023, at 10:00 Pm on AMC, fans of spine-tingling tales can indulge in the macabre delights of “Creepshow” Season 4, Episode 3, titled “Parent Death Trap; To Grandmother’s House We Go.”

“Creepshow” is an anthology horror series that takes inspiration from the 1982 movie of the same name. Each episode features a collection of short stories that delve into the realms of terror, murder, the supernatural, and the unexplainable.

In “Parent Death Trap,” viewers can expect to be ensnared in a nightmarish scenario where parental duties turn into a ghastly ordeal. The chilling tales in “To Grandmother’s House We Go” will lead you on a journey fraught with suspense and dread.

For those who relish tales of the macabre and unsettling, “Creepshow” offers a captivating and eerie experience, with each episode presenting a new nightmare to send shivers down your spine. Don’t miss out on the latest frightful installments of...

On Friday, October 20, 2023, at 10:00 Pm, AMC will air Season 4, Episode 2 of “Creepshow.” This TV series is based on the 1982 movie and is known for its anthology-style horror stories.

In this episode titled “The Hat; Grieving Process,” viewers can expect two distinct tales of terror. “Creepshow” brings together a variety of vignettes, each exploring different aspects of horror, murder, the supernatural, and the unexplainable. The series offers a mix of spooky and eerie narratives.

If you love getting spooked and enjoy a variety of horror themes, “Creepshow” is a show to tune in to. It’s an opportunity to experience a range of terrifying and mysterious tales that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Watch it on AMC to immerse yourself in the world of “Creepshow” and its spine-tingling narratives.

Release Date & Time: 10:00 Pm Friday 20 October 2023 on AMC

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On Friday, October 13, 2023, at 10:00 Pm on AMC, “Creepshow” returns for its fourth season with an episode titled “Cassandra; Smile.” This anthology horror series is based on the 1982 movie of the same name and is known for its chilling and suspenseful stories.

In “Creepshow,” viewers can expect a series of short vignettes, each delving into the realms of terror, murder, the supernatural, and the unexplainable. With each episode, the show explores a new set of eerie tales, making it a thrilling and spine-tingling experience for horror enthusiasts.

The show’s format allows for a variety of horror subgenres, from classic ghost stories to gruesome murders, ensuring there’s something to send shivers down the spines of all horror fans. It provides a perfect opportunity for viewers to get their weekly dose of scares.

Don’t miss the season premiere of “Creepshow” on Friday night, and be prepared for a hair-raising...

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…...

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,...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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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,...

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,...

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.

In our Q&a series Popsugar Crush, we get to know some of our favorite celebs' more intimate details - from their ideal first date to their most romantic gesture. This month, we're crushing on "The Midnight Club" and "Alexa & Katie" star Iman Benson.

Iman Benson has a personal connection to her role in "The Midnight Club," which premiered on Netflix in October and rose to No. 3 on the streamer's Top 10 list, from the start. Her character, Ilonka, discovers she has terminal thyroid cancer within the first 10 minutes of the series, and her experience coming to terms with her diagnosis and mortality lays the foundation for the show's meaningful, yet haunting events.

"I think most people have their own experience with cancer, whether a loved one had it or somebody they know had it," Benson tells Popsugar. "My mother had cancer, and I wanted to honor her . . . Through that lens,...

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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In cinematographer James Kniest’s eyes, psychology is the hidden element that makes a show like “The Midnight Club” spooky, along with other more obvious ingredients like a haunted hospice house, spiritual and religious symbols, the occult and, of course, the classic jump scare.

“To make things scary, a lot of it is not showing everything and letting things fall off into darkness with maybe areas that you don’t know what might or might not be there,” cinematographer James Kniest told TheWrap in a recent interview.

“I also think that lighting plays a huge role in that. And then sometimes like quick camera moves that reveal something or even orchestrating some blocking where you might see something barely move in the background or maybe even really close in the foreground. Hinting at things but not showing all of them so that people’s minds do a lot of the...

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,...

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,...

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...

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Season 1 of The Midnight Club.] If you’ve tuned into Mike Flanagan‘s latest Netflix series, The Midnight Club, you’re familiar with some of the unanswered questions Ilonka (Iman Benson) and Kevin (Igby Rigney) that linger after the finale. And if you haven’t tuned in, now is a good time to stop reading because we’re delving into spoiler territory. Unlike past Flanagan series on the streamer, The Midnight Club doesn’t wrap up every detail and instead, ends on a big cliffhanger, leaving viewers with questions about the characters, and what the revealing of certain secrets could mean moving forward. Although the show hasn’t been renewed for Season 2, Flanagan has confirmed The Midnight Club was written for television with the intent of continuing the story. (Credit: Eike Schroter/Netflix) One storyline we hope to see more of is the explanation behind Ilonka and Kevin’s bond, and why...

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.

Spoler Alert: Do not read if you have not yet watched through the Season 1 finale of Netflix’s “The Midnight Club.”

“The Haunting of Hill House” and “Midnight Mass” mastermind Mike Flanagan turned his attention to a younger audience for his new Netflix series, “The Midnight Club,” which launched Friday.

The new drama concludes its 10-episode first season with just a few answers, and many more questions about the fate of Ilonka (Iman Benson) and her fellow terminally ill teens at Brightcliffe Hospice, the Paragon cult’s mysterious connection to Dr. Stanton (Heather Langenkamp), the teens’ head caregiver and owner of the hospice, what actually happened to Julia Jayne/Shasta (Samantha Sloyan) and why those elderly ghosts are haunting Ilonka and Kevin (Igby Rigney).

While Netflix has not yet renewed “Midnight Club” for a second season, Flanagan has a plan for multiple seasons of the series, which follows the teens...

Note: Spoilers for the final episode of “The Midnight Club” Season 1 follow below.

Fans of filmmaker Mike Flanagan’s other Netflix series may have been shocked to discover that, when it came to the Season 1 finale of “The Midnight Club,” there are a couple of huge plot threads left dangling. Indeed, this is the “Haunting of Hill House” and “Midnight Mass” creator’s first series that’s designed to be an ongoing show instead of a limited series, and in that regard the “Midnight Club” finale ending offers up a pretty massive cliffhanger.

The first season of the Christopher Pike adaptation concludes with Ilonka (Iman Benson) and Kevin (Igby Rigney) finally kissing as the kids of the Midnight Club have come to some semblance of acceptance with regards to Anya’s (Ruth Codd) death and Sandra’s (Annarah Cymone) miraculous recovery.

Julia Jayne (Samantha Sloyan), meanwhile, is in the wind...

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...

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...

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,...

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,...

“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,...

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for The Midnight Club, Season 1, Episode 7, “Anya.”] Netflix‘s The Midnight Club is filled with stories told around the group’s routine meet-up spot, but they’re coming to life for cynical cancer patient Anya (Ruth Codd) in the aptly titled seventh installment, “Anya.” In a move that has become a signature for co-creator and executive producer Mike Flanagan, the episode delivers quite the twist. And while it may come as a surprise to some viewers, Anya’s story hints at her fate throughout the installment. As viewers saw in Episode 6, “Witch,” Ilonka (Iman Benson) led her fellow Midnight Club members in a ritual in a last-ditch effort to create a miracle for Anya. But as the ceremony proceeded, Anya looked up in terror as shadowy hands reached for her. Did that mean the ritual worked? Did a miracle occur? When Episode 7 picks up, Anya’s undoubtedly healthier and works at...

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…...

As one of the characters points out in the first epsiode, what's scarier than finding out you have a terminal illness? Perhaps once you know you're going to die - the ultimate unknown, which is what drives much of fear - nothing else can terrify you just as much. Still, in Mike Flanagan's new television series The Midnight Club, a group of these patients do just that: try to scare each other, every night. Maybe it's just a necessary distraction, but as always, there's a greater mystery to be solved, about death and the beyond. Illonka (Iman Benson) is all set for her future: at the top of her class, she's on her way to her dream school, Stanford. Until she gets a diagnosis of...

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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.

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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...

A show about dying kids is always going to be a tough sell, and sure, Netflix’s “The Midnight Club” has most of the usual tropes. There are doomed romances and devastating deaths mixed in with the harsh side effects of cancer and all five stages of grief. And as an anthology of ghost stories, “The Midnight Club” is also not too revolutionary. It’s like a YA “Black Mirror” mixed with executive producer Mike Flanagan’s usual fare (he directs the first two episodes and wrote or co-wrote most of the season), with twists that most savvy viewers will see coming. But when you put those two things together — dying kids telling ghost stories — that’s when a show becomes something magical. And there is definitely a magic to “The Midnight Club.”

The series is based on the 1994 book by Christopher Pike and tells the story of a group...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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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,...

Mike Flanagan is one of the most interesting and prolific horror filmmakers working right now, so much so that he's developed his own brand. Especially on Netflix, where he continues to create horror series that usually go over like gangbusters. His most recent show, "Midnight Mass," was one of his best yet. And, having followed hs career since his debut feature "Absentia," I consider myself a big Flanagan fan. So believe me when I say I take no pleasure in stating that Flanagan's latest, the Netflix series "The Midnight Club," is a bust.

Co-created with Leah Fong, "The Midnight Club" is inspired by the work of Christopher Pike, who was kind of like the dark shadow to R.L. Stine back in the day when YA horror paperbacks were all the rage. But while Stine trafficked in ghouls and ghosts (and the occasional serial killer), Pike's books were always weirder, going...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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..."

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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...