Summary

Josh Malerman came up with the idea for one of the season’s biggest movies at the box office after his brother told him a brief story about his niece. “I was on the phone with my brother some 13 years ago, and he told me that he and his wife had put their kid Elliott to bed for the night,” he says. Elliott replied in kind to her mother and father, then, eerily, said “good night” to her mom again.

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