The makers The Haunting of the Hill House, bring a new horror mystery-thriller series to Netflix for the spooky season. The Midnight Club is a 10-episode long show based on the 1994 novel of the same name by Christopher Pike, along with references to 27 other books by the author. The series follows eight sickly teens in a hospice who meet up and tell scary stories while they deal with mysteries at the spooky hospice. It stars Iman Benson, Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard, William Chris Sumpter, and Sauriyan Sapkota as the patients. The show draws inspiration from the club like setting in various 80s and 90s stories such as the breakfast club and more. To add to the retro-horror spectacle, the series stars Heather Langenkamp, the scream queen of the 90s, as a titular character.
The midnight club is the perfect blend of horror, mystery and adventure
The Midnight Club is a series that does an excellent job of bringing in many references and elevating the genre of horror through different lenses. Each of the stories told by the members of The Midnight Club are adapted from different stories by Christopher Pike. The series centres around a young girl in the mid-1990’s called Illonka. Illonka is bright student who discovers she has thyroid cancer and has to forfeit the chance of heading off to college. Once she hears that her condition has now become terminal, she finds out about a hospice that has helped a former patient heal from thyroid cancer. Illonka heads off to Brightcliffe Hospice Care for Teenagers and meets a new set of teenagers not very different from herself.
The show explores various issues that stream from issues of perfection, queerness, faith, mental health and more. The midnight club is the perfect blend of horror, mystery and adventure. Although, the show does leave the audience with many unanswered questions. A season two is necessary to cover all the mysteries at Brightcliffe Hospice Care. There are some plot holes that form within the show, such as what about the attendants at Brightcliffe, do they have any idea about the history and events at Brightcliffe? And what about Illonka’s final story, how does it derive from her life or is it just a story? And finally, what are the dark shadows that loom over the teens who are at the edge of their lives.
A series that does an excellent job of bringing in many references and elevating the genre of horror
There has been a hint of a season two by the showrunner, Mike Flannagan - "This was designed to be ongoing. I don’t know if it will. We’ll see how it goes, and we probably won’t know for another month or so what Netflix wants to do", Flannagan tells Teen Vogue and other journalists.
The Midnight Club promises an ensemble of horror and mystery goodness for all the classic horror fans out there. Enjoy your Halloween with this spooktacular show.
