Mike Flanagan’s The Midnight Club Trailer Haunts Terminally Ill Teens
When midnight strikes, the scary stories come to life.
Adapted from the Christopher Pike novel comes The Haunting of Hill House creator Mike Flanagan’s first young adult project The Midnight Club. Set in 1994, the 10-episode series is led by Iman Benson who plays Ilonka, whose excitement to get into Stanford University is cut short when she is diagnosed with thyroid cancer. She moves to Brightcliffe Hospice, a home for teminally ill teenagers, with hidden secrets of its own.
The trailer gives off Are You Afraid Of The Dark meets Red Band Society energy as we see Ilonka join seven other hospice patience who come together every night at midnight to tell ghost stories or “make ghosts” — with a pact that the next of them to die will send a message from beyond the grave. But is there a way to save themselves from their illnesses altogether? “There are so many stories about this place, stories about people who thought they were going to die but didn’t,” Ilonka says in the trailer. “I don’t care what it costs. If there’s a way to save us, I’d bring the world down.”
Alongside Benson, the Midnight Club members consist of Igby Rigney, Adia, Annarah Cymone, Aya Furukawa, Ruth Codd, Sauriyan Sapkota, and William Chris Sumpter, with frequent Flanagan collaborators Rahul Kohli, Zach Gilford, Samantha Sloyan, and Matt Biedel also joining the series. A Nightmare on Elm Street icon Heather Langenkamp also takes on a significant role.
The haunts hit Netflix on October 7.
