The Midnight Club Sets Guinness World Record For Most Jump Scares In One Episode
The Midnight Club, Netflix's latest offering from Mike Flanagan, has set a Guinness World Record for following a classic horror trope. According to reports, the show received the record for the most jump scares in just one episode.
Netflix's The Midnight Club, based on the novel of the same name by Christopher Pike, is being adapted to the screen by Flanagan and Leah Fong, with Flanagan serving as showrunner. It follows a group of teens with terminal illnesses — Ilonka (Iman Benson), Cheri (Adia), Kevin (Igby Rigney), Sandra (Annarah Cymone), Natsuki (Aya Furukawa), Anya (Ruth Codd), Amesh (Sauriyan Sapkota), and Spencer (Chris Sumpter) — at Brightcliffe Hospice. The eight teenagers meet every midnight to tell scary stories to one another and begin to discover that Brightcliffe might not be what it appears.
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According to Deadline, prior to the launch of the series, co-creator Flanagan and the creative team were presented with the record for the most jump scares in a single episode at Netflix's New York Headquarters. According to the report, Flanagan is not a fan of jump scares and instead decided to include so many to get them out of the way. Flanagan says, “I thought, ‘We’re going to do all of them at once, and then if we do it right, a jump scare will be rendered meaningless for the rest of the series.’ It’ll just destroy it. Kill it finally until it’s dead, But that didn’t happen. They were like, ‘Great! More [scares]!'”
Flanagan now presents himself as an expert on the subject. He further goes on to say, “My whole career I completely s*** on jump scares as a concept, and I wanted to make sure it was pinned to me, too, as much as it is to the show, to Netflix,
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