Netflix scare-masters Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy taking their terrifying talents to Prime Video

The duo behind Midnight Mass and The Haunting Of Hill House are leaving Netflix

By Sam Barsanti | December 1, 2022 | 9:46pm

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Netflix scare-masters Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy taking their terrifying talents to Prime Video

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Netflix is about to get a little less scary, or at least it will remain about as scary as it is now and will not get any scarier after a certain point in the future, since the minds behind its annual run of critically acclaimed horror shows—The Haunting Of Hill House, The Haunting Of Bly Manor, Midnight Mass, The Midnight Club, and next year’s The Fall Of The House Of Usher—are leaving Netflix for Amazon’s Prime Video. We’re talking about Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy, whose development deal with Netflix through their Intrepid Pictures label has ended, with them choosing to move over to Prime Video instead.

This comes from Deadline, which says the two of them “met with studios and streamers” before deciding to go to Prime Video, which seems to imply that either they didn’t want to stay with Netflix or that Netflix didn’t want to keep them—though we could just be reading into that a little too much. Maybe everyone is still friends. Either way, Flanagan and Macy said in a statement that they have “long admired” Amazon as a studio, saying “Their commitment to engaging in groundbreaking series and content aligns with the ethos of what we have built at Intrepid.”