*the midnight club spoilers ahead*
for me, the craziest part of the midnight club is that all the overtly supernatural stuff could be fake. it literally ends on a "you're just imagining things/it was all a dream" note, with only the ballerina leg left as a bit of "yes the other side possibly exists." unlike hill house, bly manor or midnight mass, it is heavily implied that there isn't actually anything supernatural happening. even the creepy grandma and grandpa who were the original owners of the property could be figments of ilonka and kevin's imaginations since they're the only ones who paid attention to the old photos (it's not as if mike f has ever been subtle about ghosts being more than just ghosts). literally, save the ballerina leg, there is nothing to concretely indicate that supernatural shit is going on. and the ballerina leg just adds to the theme of hope that the show pushes so hard - hope in the face of crushing despair, that there is possibly more. it's not about whether the supernatural exists or not but reinforces one of the main themes
what i mean by all this is that mike f made shows where ghosts explicitly exist and explicitly told us that they aren't ghosts, they are wishes, and that people become stories and dead doesn't mean gone
and then he made the midnight club which is basically a cinematic manifestation of these ideas and i think that's very sexy of him
