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Then came the big news that Flanaganwould be adapting Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher for Netflix. Also incorporating other works from Poe, the standalone limited series will run for eight episodes, four of which will be directed by Flanagan. Flanagan recently explained why Usher isn't part of The Haunting anthology -- simply, it has no ghosts. Still waiting for a premiere date announcement. Is Midnight Mass based on a true story?

The old newspaper clipping with a photograph of a younger Monsignor Pruitt. Netflix Is Father Paul the devil? On the same road Saul was traveling to Damascus, Monsignor Pruitt wandered from his tour group. Confused and lost in the desert, he was swept up into a sandstorm. The sandstorm uncovered the entrance to an ancient ruin of what Monsignor later believes to be a church. Monsignor stumbles inside -- and meets the Angel. With sharp-edged wings and a thirst for blood, the Angel bares a striking resemblance to a vampire. Vampires. Really?A wild-cat infestation is flourishing on the island, rumored to have been caused by people bringing pets from the mainland. The kitties' diet has been slightly unconventional. Up until the '20s, residents used to bury their deceased family members in their yards. During a particularly major storm, the Uppards area of the island would overflow and corpses would wash up on the beach... and the cats would feed. Somewhat helpfully, this infestation is handled in the days following the Angel's secret arrival. The tradition of a midnight Vigil on the eve of Christmas began in the East, and was observed in the late fourth century in Jerusalem by a Christian woman named Egeria on the night of January 5. The tradition reached the Western world in the year 430 under Pope Sixtus III in the Basilica of St Mary Major. [1] As is often the case with such fare, “Midnight Mass” begins as a creepy, provocative horror yarn and finally can’t deliver on its promise. Created by “The Haunting of Hill House’s” Mike Flanagan, the Netflix series deserves praise for its distinctive ambitions and jolting surprises but too often plays like a long-winded sermon, frittering around the edges of its homily. Rotten Tomatoes spoke with Mike Flanagan and the cast to find out more about the series. Here are eight things you need to know about Midnight Mass. The Mist has been brought to life onscreen twice, as a critically acclaimed 2007 movie and a less-liked 2017 miniseries remake. The gruesome story sees a group of small-town locals trapped in a supermarket after a storm sees the titular weather phenomenon descends on their town and brings with it inter-dimensional monsters. However, one of the locals is as much a threat to the heroes as the monsters, as a local busybody, Ms. Carmody, appoints herself the moral arbiter of the community and decides one of the group must be sacrificed to appease God. A transparently hypocritical Christian, Carmody’s character is echoed in the cruel but religiously devout Bev Keane of Midnight Mass.

F. Paul Wilson doesn't stop at one set of monsters. He also gives us the Cowboys / Vichy / Serfs. These are the dregs of humanity - biker gangs, drug dealers, violent criminals, city traders - who keep the vampires safe by day and wrangle the human cattle in exchange for being turned into vampires after ten years of service. The two main characters are a disgraced priest who was falsely accused of child molestation just before the end times, a nun who secretly loved him and his best friend a rabbi. Add in the priest's militant vegan feminist niece and it sounds like you have a set up for a joke. No punch line here, just fantastic and interesting characters. Wilson develops them well, and tests their various faiths as the world ends around them. Vampires control all of Europe, India, the Far East and the major cities in North and South America. It seems that nothing can stand in their way and that humanity will become cattle for the harvesting, the source of the blood of life.F Paul Wilson really puts these good guys through hell and he gives no guarantees that they'll survive the experience. These are not the romantic vampires of Interview with the Vampire or Twilight. That is shown very early in the book, but neither are these the drooling horrors of Nosferatu. Also, each "get" or generation of vampire is different from it's progenitor, a little less human. She theorizes that their blood -- and likely the once wheelchair-bound Leeza's -- contains "something that repairs damaged cells, is violently photosensitive and causes an insane anemia. A desperate hunger for iron. Iron in blood." As the ratio of this infection in the blood increases, the physical alterations become more pronounced. Why does Erin lose her baby?

The Church of Scotland observes a service just before midnight which involves the singing of carols, although it does not include Mass and is called a Watchnight service (held elsewhere on New Year's Eve). Horror is the genre that many look to when they want to see society stripped of its false narratives. The myth that technology is only benevolent. The myth that civilization can protect us. The myth that any long-term earthly consequences for humanity’s short-term greed don’t matter because God has a mysterious plan and will reward us in the afterlife.Critics frequently describe Mike Flanagan, the feted writer-director of The Haunting of Hill House and its follow-up The Haunting of Bly Manor, who also directed Doctor Sleep, Hush, and a bevy of other admired horror movies, as a “horror auteur.” His lofty reputation seems to be tied to his tendency to sidestep the darker elements of horror; as the New York Times noted in a recent profile, “Flanagan has earned a reputation for what might be called humanistic horror ... while never skimping on the nightmare fuel, [he] believes that horror can offer something deeper.” Yes. For those expecting another ghost story similar to Flanagan's The Haunting of Hill House or Bly Manor, a tale of vampires might come as a surprise. Where did the inspiration come from? Flanagan, who once served as an altar boy, has discussed in interviews how he found ideas of the supernatural in the Bible itself. In episode 7, as the vampiric townspeople run riot, Mildred Gunning and John Pruitt sit inside the church, ruminating over their days in love and the miracle of having a second chance to be together, as a family. It's implied that Mildred and John had an affair during the war, but Mildred chose not to disrupt her family with her then husband, letting her daughter Sarah believe he was her father. But Sarah's real father, as she finds out just before Sturge shoots her, was John. What other incidents have happened on the island? Bev’s complete readiness to usher in the book of Revelations might sound over the top, but it really isn’t. As I watched Midnight Madness, I was frequently reminded of Mississippi governor Tate Reeves, who recently defended his leadership of the state with the worst pandemic death toll in the US by claiming that people who believe in the afterlife “don’t have to be so scared of things.” Even relatively mainstream Christian voices have questioned whether the pandemic is God’s judgment.

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