The seven young people who form the core of Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong’s upcoming horror mystery series The Midnight Club on Netflix are all aware that they will likely pass away before any of them are prepared to do so. But in the first complete trailer for the series, it’s not the idea of dying naturally that has all the children at Brightcliffe hospice screaming for cover; rather, it’s the way something from the hereafter appears determined to speed up their demise.
Though theoretically a place where children go to spend their last days, the new trailer presents Brightcliffe as the kind of isolated, occasionally picturesque boarding school setting that locals would find alluring. Brightcliffe’s boarders are supposed to spend their time unwinding, getting to know one another, and coming to terms with their shared fates under the watchful eye of Dr. Georgina Stanton (Heather Langenkamp). And in a technical sense, that’s what it looks like all of these kids are doing. But instead of getting closer via commiseration, they do so by slipping away in the middle of the night to talk about ghosts and make deals about returning as spirits once they die.
The Midnight Club’s trailer shows that whatever energies the kids are channelling aren’t exactly therapeutic or inconsequential as they initially look. While facing death head-on can be a perfectly valid way to deal with one’s mortality and being emotionally vulnerable with people, it’s also clear that whatever energies the kids are channelling aren’t exactly insignificant or unimportant as they initially look. Iman Benson, Igby Rigney, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Cymone, William Chris Sumpter, Sauriyan Sapkota, and Heather Langenkamp are among the cast members of The Midnight Club, which premieres on Netflix on October 7th.
Check out our whole show preview for The Midnight Club here for an overview of everything to look forward to. The Fall of the House of Usher and Something is Killing the Children are only two of the upcoming films that will be created as part of the Intrepid/Mike Flanagan overall contract with Netflix.
As you’ll see, Christopher Pike’s works serve as the majority of the titles for the new series. Regarding the series’ exploration of Christopher Pike’s other works, Flanagan said:
The main premise of The Midnight Club is that these youngsters meet at night to tell each other stories, which generated this tremendous chance for growth. That meant we could go through Christopher Pike’s massive library and take out more stories to weave into the story. We weren’t just reworking one book, but several. “The only boundary was the sky.”
Netflix’s The Midnight Club Episode Titles
Let’s go through all of the episode titles for the upcoming Netflix series:
Episode 101: “The Final Chapter”
Written for the Screen by Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong
Directed by Mike Flanagan
Episode 102: “The Two Danas”
Written for the Screen by Leah Fong, Julia Bicknell and Mike Flanagan
Directed by Mike Flanagan
Episode 103: “The Wicked Heart”
Written for the Screen by Elan Gale and Mike Flanagan
Directed by Michael Fimognari
Episode 104: “Gimme a Kiss”
Written for the Screen by Jamie Flanagan and Mike Flanagan
Directed by Michael Fimognari
Episode 105: “See You Later”
Written for the Screen by Julia Bicknell and Mike Flanagan
Directed by Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr.
Episode 106: “Witch”
Written for the Screen by Chinaka Hodge and Mike Flanagan
Directed by Axelle Carolyn
Episode 107: “Anya”
Written for the Screen by Jamie Flanagan
Directed by Axelle Carolyn
Episode 108: “Road to Nowhere”
Written for the Screen by Julia Bicknell and Mike Flanagan
Directed by Viet Nguyen
Episode 109: “The Eternal Enemy”
Written for the Screen by Elan Gale and Mike Flanagan
Directed by Viet Nguyen
Episode 110: “Midnight”
Written for the Screen by Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong
Directed by Morgan Beggs