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“The Midnight Club”: Mike Flanagan Reveals What We Would’ve Seen in Season Two

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The Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong-created series “The Midnight Club” marked the first Netflix series for Flanagan that was intended to continue over multiple seasons, which meant that the inaugural season ended with multiple unresolved storylines and cliffhangers. The news of the series cancellation leaves fans disappointed that those loose ends will remain unresolved, or does […]

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“The Midnight Club” Season 2 Not Happening at Netflix as Mike Flanagan Moves to Amazon

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The news broke just yesterday that Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy‘s Intrepid Pictures has inked a new series deal with Amazon Studios, meaning Flanagan and Macy are no longer making horror shows for Netflix. The duo’s series projects will exclusively stream on Prime Video going forward, but what does that mean for a potential “The […]

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Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy Have Signed a Multiyear Series Deal With Amazon Studios

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After working exclusively with Netflix the past several years on “The Haunting of Hill House,” “The Haunting of Bly Manor,” “Midnight Mass” and “The Midnight Club,” Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy‘s Intrepid Pictures has found a new home at Amazon Studios, Deadline reports. As part of the exclusive multiyear overall series deal that Mike Flanagan […]

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‘The Midnight Club’ – How the Netflix Series Expands Upon the Christopher Pike Novel

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Mike Flanagan’s long-awaited adaptation of The Midnight Club has finally made its way to Netflix. Geared at a slightly younger audience, the series is an adaptation of Christopher Pike‘s novel about five teenagers living out their final days at Brightcliffe Manor, a hospice for terminal youth. Each night they gather in the ornate library to […]

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“The Fall of the House of Usher” – Mike Flanagan Says His Poe Series Delivers Blood-Soaked Giallo Mayhem

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Based on the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Mike Flanagan‘s next series for Netflix is “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and it’s going to be unlike anything Flanagan has ever done before. The limited series from Intrepid Pictures is “based on multiple works from Poe.” 8 episodes have been filmed, and Flanagan and […]

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Netflix’s “The Midnight Club” Sets Guinness World Record for Jump Scares in Single Episode

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Mike Flanagan typically shies away from jump scares in his horror, but he’s breaking all the rules with Netflix’s “The Midnight Club.” The premiere episode of Flanagan’s latest series, co-created with Leah Fong, just set a Guinness World Record for the most scripted jump scares in a single episode of television. “The Midnight Club” is […]

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‘Something Is Killing the Children’ – Mike Flanagan No Longer Involved in Netflix Adaptation

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It was announced last summer that Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy would be co-writing a pilot for a potential Netflix series adaptation of James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera’s comic book series Something Is Killing the Children, but it looks like those plans have changed. In a new chat with The Wrap this week, Flanagan […]

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‘The Midnight Club’ – All the Christopher Pike Stories the Netflix Series Adapts

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Mike Flanagan’s latest Netflix series, The Midnight Club is an adaptation of not just one Christopher Pike novel, but many of the prolific 80s and 90s YA author’s works. In the past, there has been only one adaptation: a 1996 made-for-TV movie of Fall Into Darkness starring Tatyana Ali and Jonathan Brandis (available for free […]

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“The Midnight Club” Review – Mike Flanagan Embraces Christopher Pike and the Power of Storytelling

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It makes sense why Christopher Pike’s 1994 novel, The Midnight Club, would appeal to Mike Flanagan. Its esoteric ruminations on death and storytelling feel like a natural extension of themes explored in Midnight Mass, only for a younger audience in mind. Series creators Flanagan and Leah Fong repurpose some of Pike’s prolific catalog, using The Midnight Club as a centerpiece, to explore what it […]

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Four New Horror Shows Premiere This Week Including “Chucky” Season 2!

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This first full week of October is a huge week for new horror, with 13 brand new horror movies arriving in theaters and on streaming. And the small screen is loaded with fresh horror, too. One of horror’s most beloved slasher franchise icons makes his grand return to the small screen, for starters, while three […]

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Netflix’s ‘The Midnight Club’ Trailer – Horror (Stories) Heal All Wounds!

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Netflix and Mike Flanagan (“The Haunting of Hill House,” “Midnight Mass”) introduce “The Midnight Club” this Halloween, a series adaptation of Christopher Pike‘s 1994 novel that will also adapt other Pike stories. “The Midnight Club” is set to premiere on October 7, and today we have the official trailer! In the series, “At a manor with a mysterious history, the […]

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Debating the Highs and Lows of the Stephen King Renaissance [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

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It’s been five years since It hit theaters and conquered the box office, becoming the highest grossing horror film of all time and tipping off a new Stephen King renaissance across Hollywood. Today? The scene is dire: Blumhouse’s Firestarter failed to ignite, while ‘Salem’s Lot has completely been vanquished from Warner Bros’ schedule. So, what […]

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Christopher Pike’s Book ‘The Midnight Club’ Gets a Brand New Tie-In Release for the Netflix Series

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While you wait for Netflix and Mike Flanagan’s “The Midnight Club” series, Christopher Pike‘s original book from 1994 is getting a Netflix tie-in re-release, we’ve learned this morning. The novel follows a group of five terminally ill teenagers whose midnight stories become their reality. The new edition arrives September 20, 2022 from Simon & Schuster. […]

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Meet Mike Flanagan’s “The Midnight Club” with New Image from Netflix’s Halloween Series

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Netflix and Mike Flanagan (“The Haunting of Hill House,” “Midnight Mass”) introduce “The Midnight Club” this Halloween, a series adaptation of Christopher Pike‘s 1994 novel that will also adapt other Pike stories. “The Midnight Club” is set to premiere on October 7, and Empire Online has just shared a new image along with fresh insights from Flanagan. “One […]

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Netflix’s “The Midnight Club” – Which Other Christopher Pike Stories Are Being Adapted? [Images]

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Up next from Netflix and Mike Flanagan (“The Haunting of Hill House,” “Midnight Mass”) is “The Midnight Club,” a series adaptation of Christopher Pike‘s 1994 novel that will also adapt other Pike stories. “The Midnight Club” is set to premiere on October 7, and a preview piece that just ran on Vanity Fair this morning is loaded with new insights […]

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