Mike Flanagan takes on The Midnight Club (Netflix)

[Albright]

so this will be released before House of Usher?

 

[Sawyer]

so this will be released before House of Usher?

Considering it was shot well before and that the latter show is undergoing reshoots of the lead character, I’d say almost certainly.

 

[Sawyer]

Go rogue and drop us a trailer, dammit. We’re starving!

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Sawyer]

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Feels so long away...

I hate summer.

 

[henzINNIT]

Bring it on. Flanagan carrying Netflix on his back for me lately.

 

[Sawyer]

Was really hoping this was going to be a summer thing, but considering it’s a supernatural horror show with teen protagonists, they probably didn’t want the double shot of Stranger Things to overshadow it.

 

[Albright]

was surprised, that CSM from X-Files is in this (and even more surprised that he‘s alive )

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Sawyer]

“This is not the first time that I tried to adapt The Midnight Club,” Mike Flanagan says. His new Netflix series, based on a book by YA novelist Christopher Pike, will debut on October 7, but Flanagan’s original attempt to create was a long, strange odyssey itself, stretching all the way back to the early ’90s and involving a supposedly reclusive author and a sorrowful backstory that few have ever heard.

In 1994, Pike first published the book about a group of terminally ill teenagers in hospice care who gather every night to exchange frightening stories. They also make a shared promise: If/when any of them die, they will return in some way to prove there is life beyond the one being cut short. One of the book’s early fans was Flanagan, but back then the eventual force behind the Netflix hits The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and Midnight Mass was just another of Pike’s voracious teen readers. When he was a college student three years later, nourishing long-distance Hollywood dreams from Towson University in Maryland, he became convinced that The Midnight Club could be his first feature film.

Flanagan wrote a screenplay, and even drafted a business plan, offering friends and family a chance to invest their own money in his low-budget indie. Once it was all in place, he sent the proposal to Pike’s publisher. “They sent me a cease and desist letter,” he says.

Solid effort, though.

 

[Sawyer]

Kind of surprised I haven’t seen anything about the publishing company behind Pike’s stuff putting out a collection of the works that inspired the show yet.

 

[Iceman]

Bring it on. Flanagan carrying Netflix on his back for me lately.

I didn't know much about him till recently but have loved or at least liked everything I've seen from him so far.

 

[henzINNIT]

Solid effort, though.

Must have so satisfying to have the clout to do it this time around, haha.

I didn't know much about him till recently but have loved or at least liked everything I've seen from him so far.

He's the man. A fairly recent discovery for me too, but he's been very consistent.

 

[Kaleb]

 

[Sithborg]

Looks great.

 

[Sawyer]

Could just be the trailer, but considering it’s teen horror, this seems like a very different project for Flanagan.

Can’t wait.

 

[Man in the Suit]

Never thought I'd hear a dramatic trailer remix of "Possum Kingdom"

 

[Deck Rickard]

Not sure about this. I love Flanagan for the most part and it’s always great to hear some Toadies. But it bothers me that it doesn’t look like they did much research on papillary thyroid cancer. Movies and TV shows tend to depict all types of cancers in a similar way but the treatment and symptoms vary, and I say this as someone dealing with an aggressive form of papillary thyroid cancer.

First off, they don’t treat it with traditional chemo. There are chemo drugs that you can take that can cause hair loss but I’m going to guess that this show will depict the main character as getting traditional chemo (being hooked up to a machine) and losing her hair because of that. Additionally, coughing up blood is rare; with papillary, it’s often asymptomatic early on and tends to be discovered when you or your doctor feels a mass in your neck or the size of your neck lymph nodes increase. Lastly, it’s usually fairly treatable unless it is anaplastic. It is true that anaplastic thyroid cancer can arise amid other types of thyroid cancers but it’s rare and usually only occurs in people 60 and over. Anyway, nothing here indicates that she has anaplastic thyroid cancer. That’s not to say that papillary is some walk in the park. But even with the aggressive variants, there’s usually a treatment plan of surgeries, medications and therapies and they don’t just ship you off to a rest home and wait for you to die.

Now, it’s possible that the trailer doesn’t show us the full picture. And even if it does, obviously this is far from the only TV show or movie that gets a particular cancer wrong. But I guess since I’m living through this **** right now, this was really jarring for me.

 

[squeekness]

I like anything scary.

 

[Sithborg]

 

[squeekness]

Nice.

 

[Snow Queen]

Spoiler: Episode 2

Rewatching Midnight Mass just before this made a familiar face into a jump scare.

 

[green]

 

[Persona]

First episode was... OK.

Probably gonna be a bottom half Flanagan thing for me (which isn't surprising, it's YA source material and Flanagan isn't as involved with all the writing and directing as he was with Hill House and Midnight Mass). We'll see.