In a spooky new Netflix series from Mike Flanagan ( Divine ofThe Haunting of Hill HouseandThe Haunting of Bly Manor , among otherhorrorofferings ) and Leah Fong , a group of terminally ill stripling attempt to scare each other silly with trace stories . The Midnight Club , based on a novel by Christopher Pike , might make you jump with fear a disk - breaking telephone number of times — literally .
The first episode contain 21 saltation scares , plant aGuinness World Recordfor the most written jump scares in a singleTVepisode .
GWR adjudicator Andy Glass demo the honor to the show ’s creators when the instalment premiere at New York Comic Con earlier this month . It had n’t been an unintentional track record attempt : Flanagan had actively tried to farce as many surprisal scare into the initiative chapter as potential — but not because he loves them . In fact , it ’s precisely the opposite .
“ I just detest them , ” he said at Comic Con , per aNetflix news release . “ For most of my vocation , citizenry have come in to me while we ’re working on playscript and said , ‘ Add more jump scares . ’ On this project , we suppose we were just going to empty the missile silo , put as many leap scares as could ever go into one scene so that hopefully by the end , they would be nonmeaningful . ” He ’s hoping his newly acquired Guinness World Record can on the side let off him from includingjump scaresin the future .
Hisrecord - settingdays might not be over , though . harmonise toGuinness World Records , Flanagan “ expressed interest ” in setting a record for most on - screen deaths in a TV show — which would be a whole new GWR category .
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