When it comes to scary movies and TV shows, some viewers freak out the most with psychological fears, while others just can’t handle anything that jumps out at them on screen. If you fit into the latter category, you may want to avoid, or immediately watch, the new Netflix series. the midnight club. The new show, from the creator of some of the service’s other horror hits, is so full of jump scares that it actually set a Guinness World Record. Read on to learn more about the midnight clubwhich is airing now.
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the midnight club, which premiered on Netflix on October 7, is about a group of terminally ill teenagers living in a hospice home. The teenagers meet at midnight to share ghost stories and also agree that the first of them to die will communicate from the afterlife. It is based on the 1994 novel. the midnight club by Christopher Pike.
The first episode of the midnight club set a new Guinness World Record for the most scares in a single television episode, with a total of 21. According to entertainment weeklyA Guinness representative was on hand when the show’s first episode premiered at New York Comic Con on Thursday, October 6, and made the record official.
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mike flanaganwho co-created the show with leah fongHe said at Comic Con that he hates jump scares, but has been encouraged to include more of them throughout his career. Flanagan also directed the horror movies. oculus, Gerald’s gameY doctor sleepand the miniseries Midnight mass Y The Haunting of Hill Houseamong other projects.
In 2016, he told BuzzFeed, “I don’t even like to call them jump scares. They drive me crazy, because I think it’s just amazing. There’s no art to walking up behind someone and smashing a saucer behind their head and knocking them back.” The director also explained, “Horror itself is being confused with loud sounds. The more I can work against that, just career-wise, I’ll always want to.”
The jump scares in the first episode of the midnight club they’re not just there to make viewers nervous. Instead, there are so many included that they become less powerful over time.
“I thought, ‘Let’s do everybody of them at once, and then if we get it right, a jump scare won’t make sense for the rest of the series. It will just destroy it. Kill him finally until he’s dead,” Flanagan said at the premiere, as reported by entertainment weekly. “But that didn’t happen. They said, ‘Great! More [scares]!'”
According to ewthe first episode of the midnight club calls the use of jump scares within the show.
Listening to a ghost story from a fellow group member, a teen says, “Starked is not the same as scared. Anyone can bang pots and pans behind someone’s head. That’s not scary. It’s just amazing. And it’s lazy.” What [expletive].”
Flanagan might have set a record for something he doesn’t even like about the genre, but he sees a real benefit to it nonetheless.
“My whole career completely [expletive] about jump scares as a concept, and I wanted to make sure that it was also noticed by me, as well as by the show, by Netflix, and by all of us who have inflicted this on everyone,” he said. “Now, I have my name on the Guinness Book of World Records for jump scares, which means the 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.