Mike Flanagan invites you to Midnight Mass in teaser for new Netflix horror series
Get ready for island-based, bible-themed horror from the creator of The Haunting Of Hill House
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Mike Flanagan has hit a lot of the highlights of the horror genre, with non-supernatural thrillers like Hush, spooky ghost stories like The Haunting Of Hill House, Stephen King adaptations like Doctor Sleep, and, of course, board game adaptations like Ouija: Origin Of Evil. For his next project, Flanagan is dipping his toe into island-based, biblical cult terror, with the always-ominous detail of seemingly benevolent miracles that may actually be scary.
The new show is called Midnight Mass, and it’ll be coming to Netflix (which has been good to Flanagan for years) on September 24. The series takes place in an isolated community called Crockett Island and centers on a “disgraced young man” played by Zach Gilford (Matt Saracen from Friday Night Lights! He was so good at football and also drawing hands!). Unfortunately, weird things start to happen when a “charismatic priest” played by Hamish Linklater (he played Porter Collins in The Big Short, who is a real guy who is good at rowing, but we don’t know if he can draw hands). This news comes from a press release from Netflix, which also includes a statement from Flanagan in which he explains that this is his “favorite project so far” and that it hits on topics that are very personal to him, given his current sobriety and his past as an altar boy. He says the show is “about faith itself” and how “even in the darkness, in the worst of it, in the absence of light—and hope—we sing.”
In addition to Gilford and Linklater, the show will star Kate Siegel, Rahul Abburi, Crystal Balint, Matt Biedel, Alex Essoe, Annarah Cymone, Annabeth Gish, Rahul Kohli, Kristin Lehman, Robert Longstreet, Igby Rigney, Samantha Sloyan, Henry Thomas, and Michael Trucco. You can see the trailer for the show, with all of its spooky, island-based imagery, up above.
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Where is Carla Gugino? Show me Carla Gugino! If she’s not in this, Mike Flanagan is a VERY bad man.
as long as she doesn’t do that godawful accent from Bly Manor again, I’m fine with this
If anything happens to Matt Saracen I will riot!
I don’t know what it is about religion based horror that is so utterly terrifying to me, but I am 100% here for this series.
Same. Exorcist and The Omen scare the shit out of me and I will not watch them. And I am not overtly religious at all, or afraid of demons and devils per se. This will be a hard pass.
I could’ve sworn that was Steve Buscemi lighting that match. Alas.
from the creator of The Haunting Of Hill HouseShirley Jackson came back from the dead to create this? That’s what Shirley should have actually been about, rather than some fictional professor’s wife who wasn’t Shirley Jackson or even an undead revenant.
In context they are obviously talking about the television show, that was totally different than the book and other movies. Jesus Christ.
An article about a Netflix series making reference to another Netflix series from a few years ago? Unlikely. If the AV Club is known for anything, it’s a fixation on mid-century literature.
I think AV Club’s most known signifier are pedantic dicklord comments … oh look, found one!
It is a noble thing indeed to carry on a tradition.
hard to argue with that
“charismatic priest” played by Hamish Linklater (he played Porter Collins in The Big Short, who is a real guy who is good at rowing, but we don’t know if he can draw hands)Could it be any more obvious that you just typed names into Google until you had enough words to string together in a vaguely joke-shaped aside?But hey man, you hit 300 words! That’s cool!
Yes, please.
can’t wait for this, Hamish Linklater was the best thing about Legion
No disrespect to his acting talents, but considering how stupidly written his character was that doesn’t speak well of Legion.
the writing in that show was bafflingly stupid after season one, but the acting stayed great and Linklater was the constant highlight. his delivery of certain lines will stick in my head long after the rest of the show goes
Even in the first season, didn’t his organization respond to David wrecking their base all by himself by… just sending a squad headed by Linklater to walk right up to him and get wrecked again? And the person in charge back at their base was his husband, because they’ve never heard of “conflict of interest”?
He was IMO the best thing about New Adventures of Old Christine, and that’s saying a lot considering it starred Julia Louis Dreyfus.