Horror movies are back in the trend with the new generation’s obsession with spooky vibes. It’s finally Halloween season and people are back at binging horror movies with their peers. Among all the releases this month, Netflix came up with the 10-episode-long ‘The Midnight Club‘ on October 7, 2022.
Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong are the creators of the series. It is an adaptation of a book by the author Christopher Pike of the same name. ‘The Midnight Club’ now holds The Guinness Book Of World Records for the most scripted jump scares in a single episode of television.
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The Scariest Horror Trope Record
At the Netflix New York headquarters, the creative team and co-creator Mike Flanagan got the certificate for the new record of 21 jump scares. He said, “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, But that didn’t happen. They were like, ‘Great! More [scares]!’”.
“My whole career I completely shat on jump scares as a concept, and I wanted to make sure it was pinned to me, too, as much as it is to the show, to Netflix, and all of us who have inflicted this on everyone,” added Flanagan. “Now, I have my name in the Guinness Book of World Records for jump scares, which means next time I get the note, I can say, ‘You know, as the current world record holder for jump scares, I don’t think we need one here.‘”
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‘The Midnight Club’ Plot And Cast
‘The Midnight Club’ is a new horror mystery-thriller American series on Netflix. The series follows a group of eight young adults. They are the residents of Rotterdam Home hospice run by an enigmatic doctor. The people hold a daily meeting at midnight to tell each other scary stories.
As their friendship grows, they sign a pact that the first to die due to their chronic illness will communicate to others from beyond the grave. However, after one of them dies, nothing remains the same. Supernatural instances start to occur. The series stars Adia, Iman Benson, Igby Rigney, Aya Furukawa, Ruth Codd, Annarah Cymone, William Chris Sumpter, Sauriyan Sapkota, and Heather Langenkamp in the main cast.
