🍿 2022-10-07 08:59:41 – Paris/France.
Netflix Premieres the midnight club (The Midnight Club), the new series of mike flangan based on the work of the novelist Christopher Pike which mixes terror and drama in a story featuring teenagers but with a subtext that will reach any viewer.
Trailer and synopsis for The Midnight Club
MIDNIGHT CLUB TRAILER | NETFLIX
In a hospice for terminally ill young people, eight patients who meet every midnight to tell each other stories make a pact: the next to die will send the others a sign from beyond the grave. Based on a 1994 novel by Christopher Pike and his other writings.
The Midnight Club Review
In recent years, Mike Flanagan has become one of the great representatives of terror thanks to productions like The Curse of Hill House, The Curse of Bly Manor, Midnight Mass Is doctor sleepsuite of the radiance in which he again invited the viewer to stay at the spooky Overlook Hotel. And all the while it turned out to be a real ace perfectly combining ghost stories and psychological horror with drama, thanks to the good development of its characters and dialogues, which, unfortunately, many lack. many current terror films.
In the midnight club (The Midnight Club) again Flanagan, with lea fongThey offer us a very good drama series that shines especially thanks to its main characters.
New friends and old acquaintances
The Midnight Club | Image courtesy of Netflix
The main cast consists of Igby Rigney, Annarah Cymone (which we have already seen in Midnight Mass), Ruth Codd, William Chris Sumpter, Sauriyan Sapkota, Aya Furukawa et Iman Benson. The young performers give life to a group of friends linked by the same destiny: everyone is terminal.
The chemistry between them is so brilliant that it won't take long to figure out each of them and their motivations.. All together, they offer situations that will make us shed more than one tear when watching the series. Also, we are talking about a multicultural cast very involved in the representation of certain minority groupssomething that is always appreciated.
They are accompanied by some familiar faces that we have already seen in other Mike Flanagan productions, although I prefer not to investigate this because their appearances and characters can come as real surprises. The person I was very happy to see is the actress Heather langenkampbest known for her role as Nancy in the franchise Nightmare on Elm Street and that here she returns to the genre to give life to the head of the palliative care home for these young terminally ill patients.
the midnight club
Every evening, the young friends gather around the fire to tell horror stories, as happened in the other adaptation of the midnight club from 1991.
In each of these stories, Flanagan immerses us in a new viewer experience, with new stories, new characters played by the same young people from the midnight club, and with an aesthetic that is completely different from the general story of the series. With the Midnight Club stories, Flanagan delves into other times (and, therefore, other visual styles), as well as genres beyond horror, such as science fiction or film noir.
Sometimes I've noticed that these stories go beyond the main plot of the show, which to be honest (and without getting into the plot itself) loses interest as episodes go by with an "ending (in quotes because everything points to a second season) which is not entirely satisfactory. This argument also contains several twists which, although seeking to surprise the viewer, become quite predictable, completely losing the possible impact of the plot. rebound.
constant referrals
The Midnight Club | Image courtesy of Netflix
Again, in the midnight club Mike Flanagan continues to make his love for the work of Stephen Kingwith constant homages to his novels and even the appearance of some of them in certain scenes.
Similarly, Flanagan doesn't hide his love for horror movies with other kinds of references like movie endorsements or posters whenever he gets the chance to catch them on screen. In addition, there is a certain influence of these other works in the anthological stories of the series itself, being able to consider them as a love letter to their favorite filmmakers.
The horror
What is certain is that, as happened in Mike Flanagan's later series after The Curse of Hill Houseconventional horror is left out to focus on character drama, which we saw in The Curse of Bly Manor and Midnight Mass.
In this case, the terror is also abandoned after a first episode that has some jump scare effective but which, after its constant repetition, ceases to be throughout the following chapters. However, we continue to move forward in the series for its most dramatic characters and plots that have certainly made me cry on more than one occasion.
In the same way, through very interesting characters, Flanagan and Fong return to talk to us about subjects such as Faith, death and family. Themes which, according to the director's filmography, appear to us as recurrent as they are captivating.
Finally
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Don't look for a horror series in the midnight club. I think this production offers much more than that. Although it is true that it is perhaps a little long (although with a very good pace) and that the main plot, which is carried by the mysteries that surround this house for the terminally ill, stops to be interesting throughout the series, I think we're talking about a more than remarkable product that is at the level of other works by Flanagan.
The characters and stories of the midnight club They managed to catch me from the first moment. Once again, thanks to this and to an aesthetic as neat as in the rest of his works, Mike Flanagan shows that he is always in top form and that he can continue to offer us productions as interesting as this- this.
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