NIGHTBOOKS MOVIE REVIEW

Many of us have fond memories of the movies that scared us as children. Movies that were seemingly kid films but contained haunting nightmare fuel. Goblin kings and The Skeksis, Artax drowning in the Swamp of Sadness, etc. Ah, children’s movies. But admit it, those scary movies were a lot of fun, because they were made for us little horror fans who went on to love Freddy and Jason and bigger and badder monsters. They were entry films into the genre, and “Nightbooks” just might be exactly that for a new generation of future frightening film fanatics. The film tells the tale of a young boy from Brooklyn named Alex who liked to write scary stories to chill and terrify his friends with. After running away from home, he becomes the prisoner of an evil witch (Krysten Ritter). To avoid certain death, he must tell her a scary story every night, and if he fails to frighten her, it will be the last thing he’ll ever do. Upon meeting the witch’s servant, Yazmin, the two must use their wits to escape her apartment, a magical labyrinth filled with various dangers, before the witch kills them both. Listen to T.C., Harmoni, Marco, and Trevor weave their own tale of terror as they review “Nightbooks”.

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DIRECTED BY: David Yarovesky

STARRING: Winslow Fegley, Lidya Jewett, Krysten Ritter, Jess Brown, Mathieu Bourassa,

 

YOUR REVIEWERS

 

T.C. De Witt (Screener Squad)

T.C. De Witt is a multi-awarded writer/director originally from Wisconsin and now based in Los Angeles. His life has been devoted to the arts since he was a child. He’s been a stage performer, playwright, stand-up comic, film and television actor, radio DJ, podcaster published author, recorded musician, and comic writer/illustrator. He is now a professional screenwriter and has been thriving for the past decade, regularly offering his talents to production studios in LA, Chicago, Milwaukee, and internationally in Sydney and Poland. He’s provided content for Amazon Prime, Netflix, and several YouTube partners. His films have screened internationally, and his stageplays have been performed across the country. In the last ten years, he has directed 57 films, 23 episodes of his series The One Minute Rewatch, 300+ episodes of podcasts, and his multi-award-winning short film Screen: Righter screened at the Festival de Cannes in 2016. He has released two feature films, The Princess Knight and A Christmas Sunset. He thrives on collaboration and the thrill of sharing stories in all forms.

 

 

Harmoni Anderson (Screener Squad, Highly Suspect Reviews, Unstabletop Gaming)

Harmoni is a mermaid-haired, millennial, rum drinking, Section 31, Slytherin (who’s divorced J.K. Rowling) preschool/nursery teacher and multi genre geek who also loves all things film, tv, fashion, makeup, and an embarrassingly huge BTS stan. Like really embarrassing. As in, mention them and then sit back and watch the insanity. Harmoni likes being able to game and talk movies/TV with people that aren’t 3 feet tall or all that demanding of her. Plus she can curse at us and not get fired….so bonus!

 

 

Marco Noyola (Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad, Audio Editor)

By day, Marco is a mild-mannered office worker, but by night he is a mild-mannered movie watcher. He does other mild-mannered stuff too.

“You don’t need to follow me. You don’t need to follow anybody!”

 

 

 

Trevor Trujillo (Screener Squad)

Trevor T. Trujillo is a One Of Us contributor in addition to being the co-host, co-founder, and co-producer of the Nighthawks Podcast. Trevor’s 17-year media career spans multiple arenas including televisio...