“If you’ve ever stayed up past bedtime with a scary story, Nightbooks is the horror film for you,” Netflix promises ahead of the new original movie’s premiere this coming Wednesday.
From producer Sam Raimi and director David Yarovesky (Brightburn) comes Netflix’s Nightbooks, a kid-friendly gateway horror movie headed to Netflix on September 15.
You can watch the first 3-minutes of Nightbooks below, which introduce a horror-loving kid whose bedroom walls are plastered with movie posters including The Lost Boys and A Nightmare on Elm Street. The former movie soon appears within Nightbooks itself, shown on a television in some sort of nightmare sequence that the young horror fan is plunged into…
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.
If you’ve ever stayed up past bedtime with a scary story, NIGHTBOOKS is the horror film for you.
From producer Sam Raimi, a boy must tell scary stories to save his life from an evil witch (Krysten Ritter).
Watch the first three minutes now before NIGHTBOOKS arrives Sept 15: pic.twitter.com/9s3HTz9EtR
— NetflixFilm (@NetflixFilm) September 13, 2021