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'The Midnight Club' on Netflix: Why eight children of the series always meet at night

Every night at twelve, a group of young boys and girls in hospice came together to tell stories

'The Midnight Club', which premieres during Halloween on October 7, is a horror mystery revolving around eight kids. It stars fairly new young adults likeIman Benson, Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard, William Chris Sumpter, and Sauriyan Sapkota as the titular patients aka the main cast. But the audience will see some old faces as well like Heather Langenkamp, Zach Gilford, Matt Biedel, and Samantha Sloyan who will have recurring roles in the series. 

The series began production on March 15, 2021, in Burnaby, British Columbia, and finished on September 10, 2021. The first two episodes are directed by Mike Flanagan, while the other episodes of the season were helmed by Axelle Carolyn, Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour, Michael Fimognari, Morgan Beggs, and Viet Nguyen. However, that is not it, read more to know why the eight kids met at night in Netflix's horror mystery series. 

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According to the novel of the same name, written by Christopher Pike, a section of the book reads, "Rotherham Home was a hospice for young people. A place where teenagers with terminal illnesses went to die. Nobody who checked in ever checked out. It was a place of pain and sorrow, but also, remarkably, a place of humor and adventure. Every night at twelve, a group of young guys and girls at the hospice came together to tell stories. They called themselves 'the Midnight Club,' and their stories could be true or false, inspiring or depressing, or somewhere in between. One night, in the middle of a particularly scary story, the teenagers make a secret pact with each other, which says, “The first one who dies will do whatever he or she can do to contact us from beyond the grave, to give us proof that there is life after death. To their surprise then one of them does die..”

However, it is a little different in the series as the synopsis of the series reads, "A group of seven close terminally ill young adults resides in the Rotterdam Home hospice run by an enigmatic doctor. They meet at midnight every night to tell each other scary stories. One night they make a pact that the first one to succumb to their disease is responsible for communicating with the others from beyond the grave. After one of them dies, bizarre occurrences begin."

It is going to be an interesting watch for horror movie lovers. 

Trailer

You can watch 'The Midnight Club' trailer below