{"id":89587,"date":"2022-10-07T06:22:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T06:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/netflixs-midnight-club-breaks-jump-scare-record-for-tv\/"},"modified":"2022-10-07T06:22:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T06:22:01","slug":"netflixs-midnight-club-breaks-jump-scare-record-for-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/netflixs-midnight-club-breaks-jump-scare-record-for-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix’s Midnight Club Breaks Jump Scare Record for TV"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tMike Flanagan has faced his worst fear: The jump scare.<\/p>\n

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\tThe \u201cMidnight Mass\u201d and \u201cHaunting of Hill House\u201d mastermind packed 21 separate instances of the classic horror trope into the premiere of his latest Netflix series, \u201cThe Midnight Club,\u201d a tally so high it actually breaks the Guinness World Record for \u201c most scripted jump scares in a single television episode.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tA Guinness World Record officially presented at Flanagan and Co. their certificate for the achievement during the \u201cMidnight Club’s\u201d New York Comic Con panel Thursday night, which included a preview of the premiere episode ahead of the show’s Friday launch. <\/p>\n

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\t\u201cThis is particularly important to me because I hate jump scares and I think they are the worst,\u201d Flanagan told reporters during a press conference earlier Thursday. \u201cMy whole career, people have been like, put more jump scares in, and do them faster!\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tFlanagan’s Intrepid Pictures producing partner Trevor Macy jumped in: \u201cThere’s a breast about it, especially with movies, ‘Put more jump scares in the first act, it doesn’t work!’\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cAnd I hate them, because I feel like it’s very easy to walk up behind somebody and smash things,\u201d Flanagan said, with Macy noting that the \u201cMidnight Club\u201d character Spence (played by Chris Sumpter) is \u201cchanneling Mike\u201d in the show when he calls the storytelling move \u201clazy as fuck,\u201d and the storyteller, Natsuki (Aya Furukawa), proceeds to overuse the device to comical effect.<\/p>\n

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\tFlanagan says there was a method to the madness used in the \u201cMidnight Club\u201d premiere, because if he was going to do what he considered the wrong thing, he was going to do it the right way. <\/p>\n

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\t\u201cThe notes were already coming in of, ‘time to do jump scares.’ So I thought, we’re going to do all of them at once and, if we do it right, a jump scare will be rendered meaningless for the rest of the series and we’ll just destroy it and kill it, finally, until it’s dead,\u201d Flanagan said. \u201cBut that didn’t happen. They were like, ‘Great! More of those!’ So my whole career I’ve completely just shat on jump scares as a concept, and now I want to make sure that it was pinned to me as much as it is to the show and Netflix and all of us who have inflicted this on everyone , now I have my name in the Guinness Book of World Records for jump scares, which means the next time I get the note I can say, ‘As the current world record holder in jump scares, I can tell you I don’t think we need one here.’ And that’s my whole strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tBased on the work of YA horror author Christopher Pike, \u201cThe Midnight Club\u201d is set at a hospice for terminally ill young adults, where eight patients come together every night at midnight to tell each other stories \u2014 and make a pact that the next of them to die will give the group a sign from the beyond. The format of the show allowed Flanagan and co-creator Leah Fong to \u201cabandon tone at any point depending on who was telling the story,\u201d per Flanagan, which gave them the chance to hit 21 jump scares in the premiere, including the \u201cdumb throw-a-cat-across-the-foreground jump scare\u201d and the \u201cunexpected-teleport jump scare,\u201d among others. <\/p>\n

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\t\u201cFilming a jump scare is ridiculous, because just outside of frame everyone is just waiting to do the scare,\u201d Flanagan said, adding: \u201cWe got to have the kind of fun I never have at work.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cThe Midnight Club,\u201d which launches its 10-episode first season Friday on Netflix, stars Heather Langenkamp, \u200b\u200bIman Benson, Igby Rigney, Adia, Aya Furukawa, Sauriyan Sapkota, Annarah Cymone, Chris Sumpter and Ruth Codd.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n