Up until the '20s, residents used to bury their deceased family members in their yards. The kitties' diet has been slightly unconventional. Some residents comment on seeing a huge albatross sweeping across the sky above the island, a bad omen.Ī wild-cat infestation is flourishing on the island, rumored to have been caused by people bringing pets from the mainland. When Riley stumbles, it gives the Angel enough time to disappear, presumably flying up into the air. The figure Riley Flynn chases on the beach during the big storm at the end of episode 1 is, of course, the Angel in Monsignor's signature fedora and long coat. Who wears Monsignor Pruitt's hat and coat? "Back in the days when I drank, there were times where I felt like the consequences weren't going to apply to me."įlanagan said his other influences include Stephen King's Salem's Lot, Needful Things and The Mist.
"The idea of a Catholic parish in an isolated community that appears to be going through some kind of miraculous religious revival - that's what came first."īut networks passed on the idea until the success of The Haunting anthology saw Flanagan receive the sweet green light from Netflix.įlanagan also said that Riley Flynn is based on himself in a way, that he's Flanagan's kind of "avatar" in the story. "Midnight Mass has been in my head since before I had a career," he continued. In this small-town setting, "midnight mass, that was a pretty big deal," Flanagan said in the Making of Midnight Mass Netflix featurette. Flanagan was raised Roman Catholic and served as an altar boy at his parishes on Governors Island in New York and in Bowie, Maryland. Midnight Mass comes from a very real place for creator Mike Flanagan and has been cooking for a while. I want all of to just be a big ball of rubber bands by the time we're done, just impossible to extricate from each other." "It's all becoming incredibly convoluted, really connected. "It's behind them in the profile on stage," Flanagan told Entertainment Weekly. The movie's titular possessed, antique mirror can be seen in the background, sitting on the stage during Riley's AA meetings. The antique mirror from Oculus appears in the recreation centerįor anyone who's seen Oculus - Flanagan revealed he embedded a huge nod to the 2013 horror starring Karen Gillan into scenes set in the recreation center. Oh - and Carla Gugino, who starred in Hill House and Bly Manor, has a brief voice cameo as the judge in the first episode. A member of the tour group on pilgrimage in the Holy Land, his character helps to direct the elderly, dementia-suffering Monsignor Pruitt.
"Īnother Easter egg: Flanagan himself appears in a cameo in episode 3. She continued, "If you look, there's a screengrab in Hush where you're looking at Maddie's computer screen and it says, 'The red and blue lights of the cop car twinkle off the Jesus fish.' That's the first shot of Midnight Mass. We can use that so we can use those pages and we can use that story." "Mike was like, 'Oh, I have this now-defunct idea for a novel called Midnight Mass. We needed a book that wouldn't cost us any money," Siegel told Pop Culturalist. "Because was a low-budget movie, we needed a story that Maddie, the main character could write - she's an author in the story. Kate Siegel, who plays Erin Greene, starred in the 2016 horror Hush as an author who writes a book titled Midnight Mass.
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