No matter what kind of romantic movie suits your mood, there's something streaming to fit the bill. Relationships that persevere despite dangerous circumstances. Meet-cutes that blossom into something more despite lots of slapstick mishaps. Would you want a sequel for Nightbooks? Vote in our poll below.Star-crossed lovers you just know won't live happily ever after. Nightbooks was produced by Sam Raimi, who famously made the Spider-Man movies and Evil Dead franchise, so that’s a big name to have on the film’s side. If there was another Nightbooks movie, there is certainly more that Alex and Yasmin could explore, perhaps with more fairy tales and scary stories to be told and lived. Overall, the movie was well received by viewers, gaining positive reviews from critics and fans. Perhaps if Nightbooks is successful enough on Netflix it could happen. White is reportedly writing another book in the series called Gravebooks, but it has not hit shelves yet. Who knows? Who knows what the future holds? But I think that there’s a lot more story in this universe, and I think that this story could be the start of so much more. The author of the book, like baked into the book an allusion to more coming. When the film’s director David Yarovesky spoke to Decider about another movie possibly coming, he said this: I could see her venturing into their world in a sequel should it happen.Īt the moment, there is not a sequel greenlit for Nightbooks, but it’s perhaps too soon to know if it’s coming. Perhaps, she’ll want to get her revenge on them after they foiled her plan. At the very end of the movie, there’s a tease shot that seems to signify the return of Natacha somehow as her hand closes out of the movie. They’ve become best friends and Alex is writing stories again. Oh, and the cat named Lenore is now in Alex’s care.Īlex and Yasmin make it back home, with Yasmin apparently back to her parents after three years away. It was the ultimate happy ending and message of the film to be yourself and embrace one’s weirdness. He says he found his happy ending when she trapped him there because he finally found someone to understand him for who he is in Yasmin. As he finally shares, one of his best friends casts him out at school for being different than the other kids. Natacha forces Alex to tell the story he’d been keeping from her the whole time, which is actually his own. And inspired by the famous fairytale, Alex and Yasmin end up shoving her in a furnace and that kills her.īefore we get to the final tease, let’s also go back to a major element of the ending of Nightbooks. The movie doesn’t entirely clear up whether the witch is the same exact one from the Grimm’s Fairy Tale, but it’s clearly very similar if not. It keeps her asleep and no longer doing harm to others, you know… like eating children? What’s interesting about this Nightbooks backstory is it has roots in Hansel and Gretel. The reason that Natacha captured Alex was because scary stories are like lullabies to her. To avenge the tragedy and abandonment she went through, Natacha decided to return to the witch’s lair, place her in an encasement that would allow her to harvest her witch powers, but in the process she basically becomes her enemy. Natacha did in fact create that plan to escape and was successful, however once she returned home to her parents, they had moved on without her. She used to be the real witch’s pride and joy of a child and ate all the other children aside from her. When Natacha reveals her true identity, we learn her tragic origin story. The Real Identity Of Unicorn Girl And Natacha Now that we know a bit of Nightbooks origins, let’s talk through the ending of the movie. However, when he meets Scheherazade, she is able to keep him alive by telling him a new story every night. In the ancient text, a woman named Scheherazade becomes the newest wife of a violent ruler named Shahryar, who marries and kills a new lover each night. For context, it’s where the original version of Aladdin was written. Nightbooks is actually inspired by the ancient collection of Middle Eastern folk tales, known as One Thousand and One Nights or Arabian Nights. Now that you’ve clicked play, let’s break down everything that went down during the movie. The new September release follows a young storyteller, Winslow’s Fegley’s Alex and the horrible fate he finds himself in when an evil witch, Natacha ( played by Jessica Jones’ Krysten Ritter) captures him and demands that he writes dark stories to tell her each night. In the vein of Goosebumps, Netflix has released a cute take on telling scary stories this spooky season with an adaptation of J.A.
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