Actually, Mike Flanagan is an absolute guarantee for atmospheric horror entertainment for Netflix. His latest series “Goosebumps at Midnight” is now being canceled anyway – horror record or not.

It doesn’t matter whether it’s “Haunted House” or “Midnight Mass”: When it comes to the horror genre, Mike Flanagan is not easily fooled. But past public hits are no guarantee of success. Netflix is ​​canceling Flanagan’s latest series, “Midnight Goosebumps,” after just one season, according to The Wrap.

The horror production only lasted three weeks in the streaming service’s top ten – apparently too short to justify a sequel. The decision may also have something to do with the fact that Mike Flanagan and his longtime creative partner Trevor Macy recently signed a multi-year deal with Netflix competitor Amazon.

“Goosebumps at Midnight” boasts Jump Scares

When “Midnight Goosebumps” debuted on Netflix in early October, the ten-part production caused quite a stir. The reason: In the opening episode, the audience expected 21 so-called “jump scares”. Such a high number of shocking moments had never before been contained in a series episode.

And that’s what Netflix horror is all about: After graduating from school, Ilonka (Iman Benson) has big plans. But the diagnosis of thyroid cancer suddenly pulls the rug out from under the young woman’s feet. There is no hope of recovery. And so her parents ship her to Brightcliffe Hospice, where she spends the final months of her life. The young woman soon found friends there – including in the “Midnight Club”.

From then on, in the walls of Brightcliffe, she met up with other terminally ill fellow sufferers every night at the witching hour to tell each other scary stories and “create ghosts”. Reality and imagined horror soon become disastrously blurred in “Goosebumps at Midnight”.

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