Midnight Mass Trailer: Be Not Afraid in Mike Flanagan's Original Horror Series

Midnight Mass Trailer: Be Not Afraid in Mike Flanagan’s Original Horror Series

September 8, 2021

Netflix has released the official trailer for Mike Flanagan’s (The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Doctor Sleep) original horror series Midnight Mass, debuting on the streamer on September 24.

On Instagram, Flanagan also shared a handful of new photos from the show, which you can check out below:

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“From The Haunting of Hill House creator Mike Flanagan, Midnight Mass tells the tale of a small, isolated island community whose existing divisions are amplified by the return of a disgraced young man (Zach Gilford) and the arrival of a charismatic priest (Hamish Linklater),” reads the official synopsis. “When Father Paul’s appearance on Crockett Island coincides with unexplained and seemingly miraculous events, a renewed religious fervor takes hold of the community – but do these miracles come at a price?”

Check out the official Midnight Mass trailer below:

Created and directed Flanagan, the seven-episode limited series also stars Kate Siegel, Rahul Abburi, Crystal Balint, Matt Biedel, Alex Essoe, Annarah Cymone, Annabeth Gish, Rahul Kohli, Kristin Lehman, Robert Longstreet, Igby Rigney, Samantha Sloyan, Henry Thomas, and Michael Trucco.

Flanagan recently spoke with Vanity Fair about the passion project, who was raised Catholic and served as an altar boy on Governors Island in New York as well as in Bowie, Maryland. His history “heavily inspired the setting,” along with “doubts and philosophies” the creator developed growing up while testing those his old beliefs. “This isn’t about just Catholicism, it’s about the traditions of all of our religions, especially ones that reach back into the ancient world,” Flanagan told the outlet. “The ancient world was a bloody and violent and terrifying place where we didn’t understand the nature or the weather, or whether we’d live through the night or through the season. And every single natural function of the planet could be made to feel like a supernatural attack.”

“It’s impossible to separate the Bible as a book from horror literature. It has everything in there,” Flanagan continued. “It’s overtly and unapologetically espousing supernatural, horrific events left and right. Even the hero of the story—God, the embodiment of love—drowns the world when he gets angry enough in the Old Testament.”

Vanity Fair further described the series as “a gateway to exploring zealotry and extremism, especially when those things are perpetrated with the best intentions.”

The series is executive produced by Flanagan and Trevor Macy for Intrepid Pictures.