Tag: The Midnight Club
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‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ Review — Mike Flanagan Is Back
This review was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the series being covered here wouldn’t exist.As much as Mike Flanagan has become synonymous with horror, his TV shows also heavily play on themes commonly found in classic Gothic literature. For some, horror…
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‘Fall of the House of Usher’ Trailer – Consequences Come for the Family
Spooky season is never complete without something from horror auteur Mike Flanagan. The creator has delivered one terrifying and delightful series after another ahead of Halloween, from 2018’s The Haunting of Hill House to 2022’s The Midnight Club. Now, there’s only a month left until the curtain rises on his Edgar Allen Poe adaptation The…
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‘The Fall Of The House Of Usher’ Trailer: Mike Flanagan Returns With An Edgar Allan Poe Horror Series
Mike Flanagan is back with his latest Netflix horror series. Sure, his last foray into Netflix horror, “The Midnight Club,” wasn’t the best, but this is still the filmmaker behind “The Haunting of Hill House,” so we’ll cut him some slack. Plus, there’s no denying “The Fall of the House of Usher” looks like a…
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This Is Mike Flanagan’s Best Scene
Writer/director Mike Flanagan has become a prominent figure in the horror genre over the past decade with movies like Hush and Doctor Sleep, and his four Netflix original limited series: The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Midnight Mass, and The Midnight Club, with a fifth, The Fall of the House of…
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Netflix Needs to Focus on Current Shows Instead of New Ones
Back when The Strain was first coming on the air, FX president John Landgraf revealed that the show was going to have a finite run between 39 and 65 episodes and, in revealing this news, noted, “What if a television show could be just the length that is optimal for that story?” Such a question…
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Robert Englund Inspired Heather Langenkamp to Wear Prosthetics in Star Trek
You likely know horror icon Heather Langenkamp from her iconic final girl role as Nancy Thompson in the 1980s slasher franchise A Nightmare on Elm Street. Langenkamp has recently re-entered the horror stratosphere with her stand-out role in Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong’s latest Netflix series The Midnight Club. What you may not know is…
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What We Can Expect If The Midnight Club Gets A Season 2
Mike Flanagan is known for his heady, deeply emotional ventures into horror, with projects like “The Haunting of Hill House,” “The Haunting of Bly Manor,” “Midnight Mass,” “Doctor Sleep,” and “Gerald’s Game” all generating massive fan bases and solidifying Flanagan as a modern horror master. His latest venture takes him out of his usual realm…
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The Midnight Club Episode 10 Recap: Seen or Unseen, Here but Not Here
The season finale of The Midnight Club begins with a flashback to a young Julia Jayne (Larsen Thompson) sneaking out of Brightcliffe. With Athena’s journal in hand, she appears at the door of Regina Ballard (Katie Parker), a.k.a Aceso. Julia begs Regina to teach her everything she knows, and Regina agrees as long as Julia…
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The Midnight Club Episode 9 Recap: Delusions Shared by Two
For once, this episode of The Midnight Club starts with good news – Dr. Stanton (Heather Langenkamp) tells Sandra (Annarah Cymone) that she gets to go home. Sandra still has intestinal polyps but has significantly fewer than when she arrived at Brightcliffe. This means that she was misdiagnosed with terminal lymphoma. Sandra is surprised at…
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The Midnight Club Deepens Mike Flanagan’s Exploration of Death
Editor’s note: The below contains spoilers for The Midnight Club.The Midnight Club is all about death. By following a group of terminal patients living the last months of their lives in a hospice, series creators Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong explore the existential dread of contemplating the oblivion that awaits us at the grave. It’s…