The seven young people who form the core of Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong’s upcoming horror mystery series The Midnight Club on Netflix
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
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
Brightcliffe’s boarders are supposed to spend their time unwinding, getting to know one another
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
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.