Netflix kicks off New York Comic Con with more scares than people can handle.
Mike Flanaganhates jump scares.
Flanagan feels jump scares are a lazy genre trope, but that was part of the fun.
Annarah Cymone’s Sandra gets a scare in Netflix’s ‘The Midnight Club.'.Eike Schroter/Netflix
Executives have constantly pushed him to include more jump scares in his work.
So, forThe Midnight Club, he made a decision.
It’ll just destroy it.
“But that didn’t happen.
They were like, ‘Great!
More [scares]!'”
Anyone can bang pots and pans behind someone’s head.
That’s not scary.
It’s just startling.
And it’s lazy as f—."
The Midnight Clubcasts its shadow over Netflix this Friday.
Watch our video with the cast above.
