Netflix’s ‘The Midnight Club’ breaks world record for most jump scares in a TV episode
Netflix’s new spooky teen series is scaring the pants off people worldwide.
The Midnight Club is the fifth most popular TV show on the platform globally and third in the U.S. and U.K. It has already broken a Guinness World Record for most jump scares. With a ’90s setting at a creepy hospice and charming characters, it’s the perfect recipe for a seasonal scare.
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What is The Midnight Club on Netflix?
The teen horror series follows a group of seven terminally ill young adults living at Brightcliffe Home hospice. The teens meet every night at midnight to tell each other scary stories.
But when they make a pact that whoever passes first must communicate with the others as a spirit, it becomes the catalyst for a new mystery.
Why is everyone talking about The Midnight Club on Netflix?
The series’ popularity probably has something to do with how it delivers the spook. Created by Leah Fong and Mike Flanagan, the mind behind Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor, it has already broken a major horror record.
With 21 jump scares in the first episode, The Midnight Club holds the Guinness World Record for the most scripted jump scares in a single TV episode.
“The 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,” Flanagan told Variety. “But that didn’t happen. They were like, ‘Great! More of those!’”
the jumpscares in the midnight club jesus christ i’m only on the first episode
— elle (@thanefarrow) October 10, 2022
“The jumpscares in the midnight club Jesus Christ I’m only on the first episode,” @thanefarrow said on Twitter.
I didn’t think the midnight club would have me sobbing as hard as I am but there we go
— nic🐻 (@harringtvns) October 11, 2022
“I didn’t think the midnight club would have me sobbing as hard as I am but there we go,” @harringtvns wrote in a tweet.
TikToker @moviefiles praised the cast’s performances and the series for having characters to root for.
The user @cozzerfilms reacted to all of the jump scares in the first episode.
“I’m watching in fear knowing there could be a jump scare,” he said just before a jump scare startled him.
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