Netflix’s new series ‘The Midnight Club’ has broken a world record for its overload of jump scares.
According to a news release from Guinness World Records, a horror mystery-thriller series recently broke a world record for its plethora of jump scares.
A jump scare describes the classic horror movie trope when a moment of tranquility is interrupted by a loud noise or a lightning-fast cut intended to make a viewer jump with surprise or fear.
The first episode of ‘The Midnight Club’ broke the record for the most scripted jump scares in a single television episode, the news release says. The episode features a bone-chilling 21 jump scares.
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The show’s creator, Mike Flanagan, joked that he wanted to break the record as a response to producers who continually asked him to add in more jump scares, despite his wishes, according to the release.
Based on a 1994 novel by Christopher Pike, the horror series is tells the story of eight teenagers with terminal illnesses. Set in a strange hospice in the 1990s, the teens start meeting up at late night to swap disturbing and supernatural stories. The series debuted on October 7 and its streaming on Netflix.
