Director: David Yarovesky
Cast: Winslow Fegley , Lidya Jewett , Krysten Ritter , Jess Brown , Mathieu Bourassa , Trixie , Luxton Handspiker , Liam Couvion , Khiyla Aynne , Riley O'Donnell , Jill Frappier , Taylor Belle
Plot: Alex (Winslow Fegley) is a creative boy with a strong passion for writing scary stories. But when he's labeled weird and rejected for what he likes, he swears he'll never write again. That's when an evil witch (Krysten Ritter), captures him in her magical apartment in New York City and demands that he tell her a new tale every night if he wants to stay alive. Trapped inside with Lenore, the witch's spiteful cat watching his every move, Alex meets Yasmin (Lidya Jewett), another young prisoner who has learned how to survive the witch's wicked whims. With Yasmin's help, Alex must learn to embrace what makes him unique -- his love for scary stories -- and rewrite his own destiny to break them free.
My Movie Review: The movie is one for the books certainly push its audience to the limit with its unrelenting fusillade of jump scares a new Netflix original kids fantasy-horror movie based on the book under the same name. Alex who has a passion to write scary stories, get trapped in a wicked witch’s magical apartment and finds out that the only way to survive is by telling spine-tingling horror stories to the witch, Natacha. Meanwhile he also tempts to escape from the witch, together with another prisoner for a family horror Nightbooks did quite well for itself! If you have the opportunity to sit down, watch Nightbooks you should do because this family horror movie has something to offer everyone in the family often scary, occasionally disgusting, this film fails to clear the bar for safe, scary children's entertainment but that's what make it fun! Nightbooks is a lesson in self-acceptance disguised as an adventure where a young boy finds himself prisoner in a witch's enchanted apartment as the only way he can stay alive is to tell her a scary story every night note to mention the colorful backdrops in the dark made it pop:) Krysten Ritter is a sight to behold fit like a glove as her Natacha's bone keys have the power to open any magical door in her apartment and she make sure they never leave her side' killing it!
Critics Consensus: Its contents may be a bit busy and overly familiar, but Nightbooks offers a fun and actually fairly scary gateway to horror for younger viewers. Its whimsical touches, along with a reverence for creative young minds, gives the film a warmth that counterbalances its shocks. Yarovesky has a knack for tricks of light - shadows, neon night vision and motion cast in silhouette - and the movie is at its most deliciously chilling when it favors visual flair over jump scares. Nightbooks takes a while to warm up, but the back half brings the gateway horror fun. It's for the young and the young at heart, wrapping a very familiar tale in creative horror-fantasy packaging. 'Nightbooks', being a film about writing scary stories, pays notable respect to their long history and the core of what makes a good one. Didn’t know what I’d get from this one but I got a delightful, horror filled, family movie that reminded me of Goosebumps & Are you afraid of the dark. Krysten Ritter is perfectly cast (and outfitted by costume designer Peter P. Nicolakakos) in this fun and entertaining gateway horror film. While the book may be better, I'd happily watch a sequel in a heartbeat! The plot takes a few unexpected turns, Fegley is a great nerd-hero and Ritter has the most fun of all as a Punk-Rock Elvira in platform shoes:)
