Netflix’s The Midnight Club breaks record for most jump scares
Entertainment Desk//
If you are easily spooked, you might want to be careful when browsing Netflix for your next binge-watching experience.
A new horror series on the streaming service, The Midnight Club, has broken the Guinness World Record for the most jump scares in a single episode – a total of 21 in the first nearly-hour-long episode.
The series was created by American film-maker Mike Flanagan, who also made The Haunting Of Hill House (2018) and Midnight Mass (2021) for Netflix.
Flanagan and his production team were presented with the official certificate marking their “achievement” by a Guinness representative at Netflix’s office in New York City last Thursday.
Flanagan was quick to disclaim that the other nine episodes will not come anywhere close to breaking the record set by the first part.
“Now, I have my name in the Guinness Book of World Records for jump scares, which means next time I get the note, I can say, ‘You know, as the current world record holder for jump scares, I don’t think we need one here’,” he is reported as saying by entertainment trade Deadline.
Ironically, he is known for minimising the use of jump scares in his other works, claiming that he does not find it effective in maintaining the tension needed in a horror film or series.
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