NIGHTBOOKS: Stylish Kid's Horror with a Focus on Acceptance
Nightbooks, the newest entry in children's horror, honors classic horror films, focuses on themes of acceptance, and has awesome production design.

Society creates stereotypes, and people begin to obey them regardless of their will. The same society often decides that those who are not like the majority have no place in the same world. Nunik is a girl living in a small corner of this big world who is trying to change the world. Nunik brings his brother with autism to the guests at his older sister's wedding, ignoring his parents' ban. perhaps without realizing it deeply, but already with the inner conviction that by rejecting what is different from us, we reject nature and God.:
Nightbooks, the newest entry in children's horror, honors classic horror films, focuses on themes of acceptance, and has awesome production design.
As this critic continues to look back at some of this Summer's films I have taken in, I would be remiss if I didn't mention one of the most overall unsettling trends in Hollywood over the last several years.....sequels, reboots, and remakes. Look, I am all for seeing more than one film for certain originals that made a splash, ie: "Jurassic Park", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Transformers", etc.
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