If You Loved Netflix’s ‘Haunting Of Hill House’ And ‘Midnight Mass,’ ‘The Midnight Club’ Is Here

While I am frequently critical of many Netflix originals these days, there’s one thing that the service has gotten right, the nurturing of the career of Mike Flanagan, the man responsible for what I would consider some of the best horror TV ever made. Now he’s back with a new show, out today, The Midnight Club.

Flanagan started in horror movies, and you may have seen Oculus or Hush around a decade ago. But eventually, Netflix snagged him in a net, and he made the excellent Gerald’s Game for them with Carla Gugino. Then, he really got started.

Mike Flanagan is responsible for three excellent horror series on Netflix:

The first two were spins on the concept of the haunted house, laden with family drama and introspection. Midnight Mass was a somewhat gorier affair as the dark secret of an island community is unraveled in what is one of the most compelling pieces of genre horror I’ve seen in a long while. But I won’t spoil what genre it actually turns out to be.

Now, we have The Midnight Club, which is not an adaptation of Rockstar’s famed street racing game from my youth, but instead it’s based on the work of author Christopher Pike, a project that has been Flanagan’s white whale, as he’s wanted to do this forever. Here’s the synopsis:

“A group of seven close terminally ill young adults resides in the Rotterdam Home hospice run by an enigmatic doctor. They meet at midnight every night to tell each other scary stories. One night they make a pact that the first one to succumb to their disease is responsible for communicating with the others from beyond the grave. After one of them dies, bizarre occurrences begin.”

It’s a different format, with a bunch of different horror stories told over the course of the series connected by the singular thread of the Club, but early reviews are positive and I’m about to devour the entire series, given how much I loved his last three. Fans of his past work will also be glad to know that previous cast members like Rahul Kohli and Zach Gilford are set to reappear.

I don’t know if The Midnight Club is destined to shoot up to the top of Netflix’s charts to unseat Dahmer, as that show is a monster (in more ways than one), but it’s been clear that Netflix recognizes the value in their relationship with Flanagan, and they keep letting him do whatever he wants. I say…keep doing that, indefinitely. I’ll report back how Midnight Club is soon enough here, stay tuned.

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