Ilonka is surrounded by colorful characters, but none of them are defined by their diseases. Annarah Cymone as Alice, Iman Benson as Sharon, Aya Furukawa as Patty in “The Midnight Club.” EIKE SCHROTER/NETFLIX Igby Rigney as Kevin, Annarah Cymone as Sandra, Adia as Cheri, Iman Benson as Ilonka, Ruth Codd as Anya, Chris Sumpter as Spencer, Sauriyan Sapkota as Amesh in “The Midnight Club.” EIKE SCHROTER/NETFLIX (The hospice is, naturally, a rambling old Victorian mansion, naturally). Stanton ( Heather Langekamp, “The Nightmare on Elm Street”) and is filled with other ill young patients who gather around the fireplace late at night to share wine and exchange scary stories - while pondering their own frightening proximity to the grim reaper. After finding Brightcliffe online, she gets her foster dad Tim - Matt Biedel, who looks like he gets the call when David Harbour is busy - to agree to take her to the mysterious hospice for a “trial run,” like “cancer sleepaway camp,” she says. Ilonka (Iman Benson) is a star student who gets a terminal-cancer diagnosis right when it feels like her whole life is ahead of her. Mike Flanagan has proven he’s a master at horror that’s more than just jump-scares with his Netflix series “The Haunting of Hill House,” “Bly Manor,” “Midnight Mass” and now “The Midnight Club.”īased on novels by YA horror author Christopher Pike (also an executive producer), “The Midnight Club” is set in 1990s California and follows college-bound students. Niecy Nash ‘biting my nails’ over new season of ‘Don’t Forget the Lyrics’

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The midnight club by christopher pike