
The seven terminally sick youths on the middle of Netflix’s upcoming horror thriller collection The Midnight Club from Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong all know they’re most likely going to die earlier than any of them are prepared. But in the present’s first full trailer, the factor that has the entire children at Brightcliffe hospice running scared isn’t the prospect of assembly their ends naturally — it’s how one thing from the good past appears intent on hastening their deaths.
Though Brightcliffe is technically a facility the place younger individuals go to spend their remaining days, the brand new trailer establishes it because the form of distant, sometimes scenic boarding faculty scenario that residents may discover virtually charming. Under the watchful eye of Dr. Georgina Stanton (Heather Langenkamp), Brightcliffe’s boarders are supposed to spend their time enjoyable, bonding with each other, and making peace with their shared fates. And technically, that is what all of those children seem like doing. But somewhat than rising nearer to at least one one other by commiseration, it’s by sneaking off in the nighttime to share ghost tales and make pacts about coming again as spirits after they die.
While trying loss of life squarely in the attention generally is a completely legitimate manner of grappling with one’s mortality and being emotionally weak with individuals, The Midnight Club’s trailer makes clear that no matter energies the youngsters are tapping into aren’t precisely therapeutic or inconsequential as they initially look. The Midnight Club stars Iman Benson, Igby Rigney, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Cymone, William Chris Sumpter, Sauriyan Sapkota, and Heather Langenkamp and hits Netflix on October seventh.