The vast majority of “Midnight Mass” takes place on a rundown island fishing community called Crockett Island. Some of Flanagan’s most ambitious elements here play with the idea that The Bible truly is a horror story, while also weaving very King-like themes into the fabric, primarily the conflict between human responsibility and the thinking that belief can wash away all sin. After all, horror and religion have a lot in common, often serving up similar themes of morality and vanquishing of evil, only in different cloth. Flanagan is playing with the darker side of religious scripture, connecting things like resurrection and drinking blood to a different kind of mythology. Again like a lot of sermons of my youth, “Midnight Mass” is abundant with connected themes and overt symbolism.
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