'Midnight Mass': Netflix Reveals Trailer for Mike Flanagan's Latest Series

Fans of director Mike Flanagan have heard the title Midnight Mass before. Whether that was in his 2017 film Gerald’s Game or even further back to his 2016 film Hush. Now the director of the Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House and Bly Manor has created a new limited series out of this title.

Today, Netflix announced that the series will premiere on the streaming platform on September 24, and also revealed a new teaser. Midnight Mass stars Zach Gilford (Good Girls) as a disgraced young man who returns to the small community on the isolated Crockett Island. Unfortunately, his arrival coincides with that of a mysterious priest, Father Paul (Hamish Linklater). The town, already divided, begins to descend into religious fervor after some unexplained and seemly miraculous events.

Flanagan is a director known casting actors with whom he had worked with previously. This new show is no exception, starring in Midnight Mass is Kate Siegel (Hill House, Bly Manor, Hush), Rahul Kohli (Bly Manor), Alex Essoe (Bly Manor), Annabeth Gish (Hill House), Robert Longstreet (Hill House), Samantha Sloyan (Hill House), Henry Thomas (Hill House, Bly Manor) and Michael Trucco (Hush).

Also cast are Annarah Cymone, Igby Rigney, Crystal Balint, Matt Biedel who are currently working with Flanagan on his other Netflix project, The Midnight Club, which stars Heather Langenkamp. In a statement released this morning Flanagan wrote:

“I’m just going to admit it… Midnight Mass is my favorite project so far. As a former altar boy, about to celebrate three years of sobriety, it’s not hard to see what makes this so personal. The ideas at the root of this show scare me to my core. There is darkness at work on Crockett Island. Some of it is supernatural, but the scariest is born of human nature.

“The darkness that animates this story isn’t hard to see in our own world, unfortunately. But this show is about something else as well… faith itself. One of the great mysteries of human nature. How even in the darkness, in the worst of it, in the absence of light — and hope — we sing. I hope you enjoy our song.”

You can check out the trailer for Midnight Mass below and the series will stream on September 24, 2021 only on Netflix. Be sure to follow ScaryNerd for more of all thing horror, sci-fi and more.