That said, director David Yarovesky ( Brightburn) is up for making a sequel. This leaves things just open-ended enough for a potential sequel, but Netflix has yet to officially announce that a sequel is in the works. Natacha returns for one last scare in the final shot of the movie.
Natacha and Nightbooks 2Īlex and Yazmin get a happy ending, but it might not last. It’s a heartwarming message about identity and learning to be yourself that ultimately anchors this chilling tale. Instead, embrace the things that make you unique. People who are ordinary will always try to bring Alex down to their level, says Yazmin, but he should never let them. But as Yazmin explains, that would be a tragedy since it would mean that Alex would be shedding the things that made him interesting in the first place.
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But when his friend calls him weird and no one shows up at his party, Alex is so devastated that he decides to rip up his horror movie posters and burn all of his notebooks. When Alex decides that he wants to have a birthday, complete with spooky haunted house decorations and new scary stories he’s written for his guests, he expects that at least his best friend from school will show up. Subscribe Why Did Alex Want to Burn His Nightbooks?Įven after the Natacha twist and the real witch have been revealed, the movie’s biggest mystery remains unanswered: why did Alex want to burn his nightbooks in the first place? Natacha forces him to finally tell the tale he’s been trying to avoid, one that’s painfully real for the young horror fanatic who doesn’t fit in at school.
For example, why is the real witch so mesmerized by scary stories? Not only can they apparently put her to sleep - which makes you wonder why Natacha needed the potion in the first place - but she seems to really hunger for them, which is how Alex and Yazmin are eventually able to shove her into the furnace in the basement of the apartment building. Nightbooks doesn’t completely ape the Brothers Grimm, though, adding other elements to the basic fairy tale framework, none of which are really explained in the movie. It would make sense for Natacha to be inspired to re-create “Hansel and Gretel” since it’s clearly a tale that had an impact on her as a child. It’s unclear whether this is truly supposed to be the same witch from “Hansel and Gretel” or if Natacha simply used her powers to create the fantasy world of the fairy tale, with the addition of a creepy unicorn. Like in the story, Nightbooks‘ witch loves eating children, and isn’t tricked into a burning oven at the end of the oven. And if Natacha’s origin story sounds familiar to you, it’s because it goes all the way back to the fairy tale of “Hansel and Gretel” about the little siblings who are abandoned in the woods by a cruel stepmother and left to fend for themselves when the witch traps them in her candy cottage. The Real Witch and Hansel and GretelĬan you really blame Natacha the Unicorn Girl for turning evil? Years trapped inside a cannibalistic witch’s evil candy cabin will do that to a kid. Driven by anger and revenge, Natacha became the thing she hated. Natacha was so angry that she returned to the witch’s lair and encased her in a machine so that she could harvest her powers and pass them off as her own (this is why Natacha sprays herself with the blue mist each night).
And it worked! But when Natacha ran back home to her parents, she discovered that they had moved on without her, unknowingly abandoning the missing child who had fought so hard to return to them. Once the real witch’s favorite child - the witch had no problem eating all of the rest of the children - Natacha secretly hatched her plan to escape by using the sleeping potion on her captor. You see, she was once the Unicorn Girl from the journal entries. It’s in this moment, as the real witch threatens to escape her tomb once and for all, that Natacha reveals the truth about her past. When they come upon a cottage made of mesmerizing candy and fall under its spell, they come face-to-face with the real witch, one much older and more powerful than Natacha. But they soon discover that this isn’t the way out at all but a path to the truth. But things are much more complicated than that.Īfter knocking out Natacha with the help of her cat Lenore, the trio make their escape, out the front door and into the dark woods beyond the apartment.
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They theorize that since the Unicorn Girl isn’t on the witch’s display case full of children turned into figurines their pen pal from the past must have escaped. Alex and Yazmin believe that their plan will work because it’s worked once before.
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