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Alex, a boy obsessed with scary stories, is trapped by a witch in her modern, magical New York City apartment. His original hair-raising tales are the only thing keeping him safe as he desperately tries to find a way out of this twisted place.
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Contemporary, unpretentious, intimate and resolved.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
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Cast
- Winslow FegleyAlex
- Lidya JewettYasmin
- Krysten RitterNatacha
- Jill FrappierGrizelda
- Neil Emmanuel LuJoshua
- Jess BrownMom
- Mathieu BourassaDad
- Luxton HandspikerTodd
- Eden GjokaCody
- Khiyla AynneJenny
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- David YaroveskyDirector
- Mikki DaughtryScreenplay
- Tobias IaconisScreenplay
- J.A WhiteNovel
- Robert McLachlanDirector of Photography
- Michael AbelsOriginal Music Composer
- Peter GvozdasEditor
- Sam RaimiProducer
- Robert TapertProducer
- Mason NovickProducer
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