They push her in and hold the door shut while she melts.Īlex introduces Yasmin and Lenore to his delighted parents as his best friends. Alex distracts her by pretending to read a story, then pauses on a cliffhanger and throws the empty notebook into the furnace. The ravenous witch pursues them to the basement. The front door opens into Alex's building. While the witches battle, Yasmin grabs Natacha's perfume bottle and flees with Alex and Lenore. The happy ending wakes the hideous witch. Natacha and the sleeping witch are mollified, but suddenly Alex says that he is glad he was kidnapped because he met Yasmin and Lenore, friends who value him. “They made him hate himself,” and Alex, ashamed and hurt, resolves to hide what made him special. Alex's parents are distressed when no one comes to Alex's. He begins:Īlex is used to being called names, but on his birthday, his supposed best friend, Josh, admits that Alex is too “weird.” Everyone is going to Cody's party instead. Alex's fear of telling his truth makes it the ultimate scary story. Alex has been helping her keep the witch unconscious with his own scary stories while Natacha harvests her magic. With nowhere to go, she returned, studied witchcraft, and eventually lulled the witch into a deep sleep, using scary stories due to her immense love for them. Natacha reveals that she was the Unicorn Girl, who after successfully escaping the original witch-who ate all her victims except Natasha-, was able to put her to sleep and returned to her home, only to find that her parents had moved away. Blue mist is being siphoned from a coffin containing a witchlike figure. Alex wakes to find Yasmin and Lenore caged in a room lined with countless skulls. They eat the gingerbread and fall unconscious. They soon realize they are still inside the apartment.Īn evil unicorn drives them to a gingerbread cottage that mesmerizes Yasmin. When she falls asleep, they steal her keys and open the door, revealing a forest. Lenore slips it into Natacha's perfume bottle. Her notes contain a recipe for a sleeping potion. None has a unicorn necklace Alex concludes that Unicorn Girl escaped. Yasmin tearfully reveals she was afraid to befriend him because Natacha killed the others by transforming them into little figurines, now displayed in Natacha's cabinet. Yasmin and Alex bond, and they eventually win Lenore's trust. Searching her vast library for inspiration, Alex finds notes in the margins of books detailing the escape plans of a trapped girl. She writes about her treasured unicorn necklace, so he dubs her "Unicorn Girl". She repeatedly asks why he wanted to burn his writings, but he manages to distract her. Natacha demands that Alex's stories end unhappily. If not, the apartment shakes. Her ill-tempered, sometimes-invisible cat, Lenore, spies on them. The doors respond only to Natacha's keys. The apartment moves around the world, seeking victims. She puts him to work alongside the housekeeper, a girl named Yasmin, who was lured into the apartment in Washington, D.C. Alex denies having any unique qualities but when he shows her his books, she demands that he read a new story to her each night, or die. He awakens to find himself in the magical apartment of a beautiful witch named Natacha who shows him a closet full of clothes belonging to children who were “not useful to her”. This made him eat the pie and pass out, making the door and television vanish. He enters and sees a piece of pumpkin pie that was not touched. The elevator suddenly stops- and stays-on a dark floor where an apartment's open door reveals a TV showing Alex's favorite show “The Lost Boys”. Plot Īlex Mosher, a young boy from Brooklyn, New York, overhears his parents talking about how worried they are about his preoccupation with writing scary stories and their fear of how he will react to a recent incident. Screaming in pain, Alex trashes his room, grabs his "Night books” and takes the elevator to the basement, planning to burn them in the furnace. Nightbooks was released on September 15, 2021, by Netflix. The film stars Winslow Fegley, Lidya Jewett, and Krysten Ritter. It is based on the 2018 horror-fantasy children's book of the same name by J. Nightbooks is a 2021 American dark fantasy film directed by David Yarovesky and written by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis.
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