‘The Midnight Membership’ Now In The Guinness E-book Of World Data For A Traditional Horror Trope – Deadline

A Guinness World Report for probably the most scripted bounce scares in a single episode of tv has a claimant. Coincidentally (effectively, not likely), it’s a brand new sequence premiering on Netflix.

Collection cocreator Mike Flanagan and his inventive staff had been offered with a certificates honoring the brand new file of 21 bounce scares at Netflix New York headquarters on Thursday. That’s only a day earlier than his new sequence, The Midnight Membership, bows on the streamer.

A consultant for Guinness, adjudicator Andrew Glass, was in attendance to make it official.

Flanagan isn’t actually a fan of bounce scares, however determined he’d shut up these clamoring for extra of them by going excessive within the new sequence.

“I assumed, ‘We’re going to do all of them without delay, after which if we do it proper, a bounce scare will likely be rendered meaningless for the remainder of the sequence.’ It’ll simply destroy it. Kill it lastly till it’s useless, However that didn’t occur. They had been like, ‘Nice! Extra [scares]!’”

The Midnight Membership, cocreated by Flanagan and Leah Fong, is an adaptation of Christopher Pike’s teen novel. The story is ready at Brightcliffe Hospice, a spot for terminally sick youngsters with its personal eerie historical past.

Eight of the residents — Iman Benson’s Ilonka, Adia’s Cheri, Igby Rigney’s Kevin, Annarah Cymone’s Sandra, Aya Furukawa’s Natsuki, Ruth Codd’s Anya, Sauriyan Sapkota’s Amesh, and Chris Sumpter’s Spencer — collect every night time within the library on the stroke of midnight for gatherings of the Midnight Membership, a bunch the place members share ghost tales and search for indicators of life past loss of life.

“My complete profession I fully shat on bounce scares as an idea, and I wished to verify it was pinned to me, too, as a lot as it’s to the present, to Netflix, and all of us who’ve inflicted this on everybody,” Flanagan mentioned. “Now, I’ve my identify within the Guinness E-book of World Data for bounce scares, which suggests subsequent time I get the word, I can say, ‘You understand, as the present world file holder for bounce scares, I don’t assume we’d like one right here.’”