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Netflix’s ‘Night Books’ Tells Scary Stories from Sam Raimi and ‘Brightburn’ Director David Yarovesky!
Netflix is getting into the anthology game with another from producer Sam Raimi and his Ghost House Pictures.
Hot off directing the R-rated supervillain horror film Brightburn, David Yarovesky will get behind the camera on Night Books, which will star “Jessica Jones” fav Krysten Ritter, pictured, with Winslow Fegley (Come Play) and Lidya Jewett, reports Deadline.
Based on the J.A. White horror-fantasy children’s book “Nightbooks”, the family-targeted horror pic follows Alex (Fegley), a boy obsessed with scary stories, who is imprisoned by an evil young witch (Ritter) in her contemporary New York City apartment. He meets Yasmin (Jewett), who is also trapped there, and learns he must tell a new scary story every night in order to stay alive.
Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert will produce through Ghost House Pictures along with MXN Entertainment’s Mason Novick and Michelle Knudsen.
Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis will adapt the script. Ghost House Pictures’ Romel Adam will exec produce and MXN Entertainment’s Tracy Kopulsky will co-produce.
Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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