Filmmaker Mike Flanagan’s signature slow-burn, character-centric style of horror is successfully applied to the work of YA novelist Christopher Pike, treating a terminal teens tale with a maturity that audiences of all ages should appreciate.
is another nod to the era of Nineties adolescent horror, this time revisiting the books of author Christopher Pike instead of R.L. Stine. Mainly based on the 1994 novel of the same name,Set in the mid-1990s, at Brightcliffe Manor, a hospice for terminally ill young adults, eight patients come together every night at midnight to tell each other stories — and make a pact that the next of them to die will give the group a sign from the beyond.
Iman Benson as Ilonka, Ruth Codd as Anya and Igby Rigney as Kevin in ‘The Midnight Club’. Image: Eike Schroter / Netflixis very character-centric. The series spends a lot of time delving into this anxiety-plagued collective of young people and fleshing them out, aided by credible performances from the young actors .