A killer friendship! Mike Flanagan‘s horror universe continues to grow with Netflix’s The Midnight Club.“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,” a synopsis of the upcoming series reads. “One night they make a pact that the first one to succumb to their disease is responsible for communicating with the others beyond the grave.
After one of them dies, bizarre occurrences begin.”Flanagan has previously been involved with supernatural shows including The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor and Midnight Mass.
Netflix also collaborated with the filmmaker on several movies such as Before I Wake, Hush and Gerald’s Game. The Massachusetts native is currently adapting Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher for the streaming giants as well.After Midnight Mass debuted in September 2021, Flanagan opened up about how developing the story helped him address his struggle with alcoholism.“I let this go on far too long, quick to deny it was a problem even as it led to increasingly self-destructive behavior.
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