Midnight Mass is difficult, disturbing, and beautiful. Here's what we can learn from it. If you know me, you know I love horror. There are a few horror filmmakers that I trust entirely to surprise and scare me, and Mike Flanagan is one of them. So it's safe to say his new show, Midnight Mass, was one of my most anticipated watches of the year. I stayed up late the night it hit Netflix and binged the entire series over a weekend. Was I crying and shaking alone in my living room at 1 a.m. the night I finished it? Yeah, okay, I was. The limited series is set on a small fishing island where the local Catholic parish looms large over the community. After a fatal car accident and jail time, Riley Flynn (Zach Gilford) returns to serve his parole and stay with his family. There's a charismatic new priest in the church, and soon strange, miraculous things begin happening on the island. Midnight Mass does a number of things extremely well, and I'd like to talk through some of these elements and how we can apply them in our own writing. Also I just wanna talk about how much I loved the show. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Wednesday, 29 September, 2021