{"id":1250,"date":"2021-09-15T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2021-11-12T14:05:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T21:05:39","slug":"nightbooks-just-the-right-amount-of-scary-for-a-thrill-but-wont-keep-you-up-all-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/2021\/nightbooks-just-the-right-amount-of-scary-for-a-thrill-but-wont-keep-you-up-all-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightbooks * Just The Right Amount Of Scary For A Thrill But Won\u2019t Keep You Up All Night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/nightbooks.poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1251\" width=\"138\" height=\"205\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A young boy named Alex becomes the prisoner of a witch to avoid certain death, he convinces her to let him tell her a scary story every night. Upon meeting the witch&#8217;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. KIDS FIRST! Film Critic Katherine S. comments, \u201c<em>Nightbooks<\/em> is very entertaining, but has some slow moments. It\u2019s perfect for people who love a scary movie, but may regret watching it at night (like me!). It has the just right amount of scary moments to give you a thrill, but also doesn\u2019t keep you up at night.\u201d See her full review below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nightbooks <br>Katherine S, KIDS FIRST! Film Critic, age 13<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Nightbooks<\/em> is very entertaining, but has some slow moments. It\u2019s perfect for people who love a scary movie, but may regret watching it at night (like me!). It has the just right amount of scary moments to give you a thrill, but also doesn\u2019t keep you up at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Enjoy Katherine S.&#039;s review of Nightbooks\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zwT1S0tUI3k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Nightbooks <\/em>follows the story of a boy named Alex (Winslow Fegley) who loves to write scary stories. While trying to find the boiler room in his apartment complex, he is lured into a witch\u2019s (Krysten Ritter) house, who steals children. He meets Yasmin, who is also stuck there. Can they make it out before they face certain doom? Watch the movie to find out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Enjoy Katherine S.&#039;s interview with Lidya Jewett (Yasmin) and Winslow Fegley (Alex), Nightbooks\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pCi1prg4y8c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This filmis based on the book by the same title, so fans of the book should love the movie. The set has so much attention to detail and the costume design, especially for Natacha the witch, is immaculate because all of her outfits perfectly express her personality. The special effects, specifically for the monsters, are so realistic that it gave me chills. My favorite character is Lenore the \u201csometimes\u201d invisible cat because she has such a mind of her own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Enjoy Katherine S.&#039;s interview with Krysten Ritter about Nightbooks\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h6Hv4t2Ht_Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The message is to never lose hope and always be yourself. Just because people think you are different doesn\u2019t mean that you are bad. There is some bad language and some scary parts that young kids find scary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I give&nbsp;<em>Nightbooks<\/em>&nbsp;4 out of 5 stars and recommend it for ages 8 to 18, plus adults. This movie releases September 15, 2021 on Netflix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young boy named Alex becomes the prisoner of a witch to avoid certain death, he convinces her to let him tell her a scary story every night. Upon meeting the witch&#8217;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. KIDS FIRST! Film Critic Katherine S. comments, \u201cNightbooks is very entertaining, but has some slow moments. It\u2019s perfect for people who love a scary movie, but may regret watching it at night (like me!). It has the just right amount of scary moments to give you a thrill, but also doesn\u2019t keep you up at night.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[890,880,882,886,883,881,888,879,884,877,875,878,891,885,143,889,688,887,876],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-critics-blog","tag-anastasia-masaro","tag-corey-feldman","tag-corey-haim","tag-david-yarovesky","tag-dianne-wiest","tag-edward-herrmann","tag-j-a-white","tag-jami-gertz","tag-jason-patric","tag-jess-brown","tag-krysten-ritter","tag-lidya-jewett","tag-michael-abels","tag-mikki-daughtry","tag-netflix","tag-robert-mclachlan","tag-stephen-r-hart","tag-tobias-iacoris","tag-winslow-regley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1253,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions\/1253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}