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Mike Flanagan’s The Midnight Club breaks world record for most jump scares in just one episode-Meghna Amin-Entertainment – Metro
It’s one of Mike Flanagan’s most haunting shows yet.
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Mike Flanagan’s The Midnight Club has officially landed on our screens, and broken a record at the same time.
Adapted from Christopher Pike’s 1994 novel of the same name, from the man behind The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass, the new spooky series follows a group of terminally ill teens grappling with their own existence and trying to scare each other with gruesome horror stories.
And they’ve also made a pact to try and communicate with each other after death, haunting the halls of Brightcliffe, as they hunt for signs of the supernatural from the beyond.
Just in time for Halloween, the haunting new series kicks off with an impressive 21 jump scares in the very first episode.
So many in fact, that it has broken the Guinness World Record for ‘most scripted jump scares in a single television episode.’
A Guinnes World Record official presented Flanagan, along with other members of the cast and crew, the achievement during The Midnight Club’s Comic Con panel on Thursday in New York.
The Midnight Club has landed on Netflix (Picture: EIKE SCHROTER/NETFLIX)
It has the most jump scares in the first episode than any other show (Picture: EIKE SCHROTER/NETFLIX)
‘This is particularly important to me because I hate jump scares and I think they are the worst,’ Flanagan claimed earlier that day.
‘My whole career, people have been like, put more jump scares in, and do them faster!’
He added: ‘The notes were already coming in of, “time to do jump scares.”
‘So I thought, we’re going to do all of them at once and, if we do it right, a jump scare will be rendered meaningless for the rest of the series and we’ll just destroy it and kill it, finally, until it’s dead.
The Midnight Club follows Christopher Pike’s novel of the same name (Picture: EIKE SCHROTER/NETFLIX)
It’s one of Flanagan’s most haunting works yet (Picture: EIKE SCHROTER/NETFLIX)
‘But that didn’t happen.’
Several episodes of The Midnight Club are based on Pike’s other works, including The Wicked Heart, Gimme a Kiss, Witch, See You Later, Road to Nowhere and The Eternal Enemy, all of which feature one of the characters telling their own haunting ghost story.
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Flanagan’s upcoming series The Fall of the House of Usher, based on Edgar Allen Poe’s work, is also in the making.
Several of the cast members including Kate Siegel and Rahul Kohli have teased that filming is well underway, although a release date has yet to be announced.
The Midnight Club is available to watch on Netflix.
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