The Most Pause-Worthy Father Paul Scene In Netflix's Midnight Mass
By Ava Barnes
Over on the r/HauntingOfHillHouse subreddit, the home for discussion of another popular Mike Flanagan series "The Haunting of Hill House," there is a series of discussion posts for the individual episodes for "Midnight Mass." A lot of fans were horrified by a particular scene involving Father Paul revealing his true identity as Monsignor Pruitt, the once-aging leader of the church for Crockett Island. This is the scene where he convinces the community to drink poison so that they can die and come back as vampires.
u/TheElStick wrote "that church scene was one of the most unsettling moments I've ever watched. I was uncomfortable from beginning to end." User u/GreasedTea echoed these sentiments, saying, "I felt sick when I realized what was about to happen, and it's been a while since horror has made me feel so genuinely horrified." u/JessBess700 offered some insight into the scene from the perspective of Flanagan, revealing that, "I was at the early screening and the Q&A. Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy said that was the most difficult sequence they've ever had to film (especially during peak Covid), but it's by far their favorite."
There are a lot of big moments in "Midnight Mass," but the church scene in Episode 6 clearly stuck with a lot of fans of the show, and is a pivotal moment in the character arc of Father Paul.
