Familiar Faces For Mike Flanagan Fans: Annarah Cymone, Igby Rigney, Samantha Sloyan, Zach Gilford, Matt Biedel, Rahul Kohli, Henry Thomas, Robert Longstreet, Jamie Flanagan.Mike Flanagan is known for collaborating with a rotating stable of on-screen talent, and The Midnight Club's cast continues that trend, though while adding several up-and-coming actors into the mix. The Cast Mixes Fresh Faces With Mike Flanagan Regulars, Plus Elm Street Icon Heather Langenkamp Despite its horror nature, The Midnight Club is also filled with humor and emotional trauma, so expect to laugh and cry as much as shiver in fear. That said, viewers can watch with the comfort of knowing that everything is thematically connected, with Christopher Pike's story details reworked to fit these characters. Given the story-within-a-story structure that the bulk of the episodes adhere to, TMC sometimes feels like an anthology, or even a horror procedural. The Tone Is A Unique One For The Horror Genre

By and large, they all last right around 50 minutes, give or take a few minutes, without any of them lasting longer than an hour. The Midnight Club's first season comprises ten episodes. The Midnight Club Season 1 Consists Of 10 Episodes While The Midnight Club is obviously the biggest hook here, the narrative's conceit - the teens meet each night at midnight to share spooky tales they've been conjuring - allows a handful of Pike's other novels to be brought to life (or death), including Gimme a Kiss, Witch, The Wicked Heart, The Eternal Enemy, See You Later, and Road to Nowhere. Beyond The Midnight Club, Mike Flanagan is also set to turn Pike’s adult novel The Season of Passage into a feature film. It’s The First TV Series To Adapt Author Christopher Pike’s Teen Horror Novelsĭespite horror adaptations being so prevalent in the decades since Christopher Pike (real name: Kevin McFadden) kicked off his career, only one of his books had been tapped for live-action prior to The Midnight Club: NBC’s very lackluster 1996 TV movie Fall Into Darkness, which starred Fresh Prince vet Tatyana M.

Sensitive viewers should also be aware of triggering elements such as self-harm and suicide.

As such, it's arguably better suited for older viewers, and is rated TV-MA for a variety of reasons, including disturbing violence, gory elements, language, and drug and alcohol use. While its core cast members are teenagers, The Midnight Club centers on characters coping with their impending deaths within a teen hospice, bonding together in a search for proof of life after death.

The Midnight Club by Christopher Pike