From producer Sam Raimi and director David Yarovesky (Brightburn) comes Netflix’s Nightbooks, a kid-friendly gateway horror movie that’s NOW AVAILABLE on Netflix!
Meagan Navarro writes in her review for Bloody Disgusting, “Nightbooks takes a while to warm up, but the back half brings the gateway horror fun. It’s silly, whimsical, and creative, with a charming pair of leads. It’s for the young and the young at heart, wrapping a very familiar tale in creative horror-fantasy packaging.”
Want a taste? Check out an exclusive clip from Nightbooks down below, which teases the arrival of the “Shredder” and his nasty bite. And watch Nightbooks over on Netflix tonight!
In the film, “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.”
Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis wrote the script, based on the book by J.A. White.
