Mike Flanagan has faced his worst fear: The jump scare. The “Midnight Mass” and “Haunting of Hill House” mastermind packed 21 separate instances of the classic horror trope …
,” a tally so high it actually breaks the Guinness World Record for “most scripted jump scares in a single television episode.”
“This is particularly important to me because I hate jump scares and I think they are the worst,” Flanagan told reporters during a press conference earlier Thursday. “My whole career, people have been like, put more jump scares in, and do them faster!” “And I hate them, because I feel like it’s very easy to walk up behind somebody and smash things,” Flanagan said, with Macy noting that the “Midnight Club” character Spence is “channeling Mike” in the show when he calls the storytelling move “lazy as fuck,” and the storyteller, Natsuki , proceeds to overuse the device to comical effect.
“The notes were already coming in of, ‘time to do jump scares.’ So I thought, we’re going to do all of them at once and, if we do it right, a jump scare will be rendered meaningless for the rest of the series and we’ll just destroy it and kill it, finally, until it’s dead,” Flanagan said. “But that didn’t happen.
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