![]() ![]() ![]() Like an American running a joke into the ground, the references are piled one on top of another, as if making some bizarre appeal to authority in order to establish the author's credibility. Now, there are a few good jokes in the footnotes, but for the most part these are as heavy-handed as Tarantino trying to convince us in Deathproof that he's seen Vanishing Point. There is a lot of homage paid to well-known horror films, mostly overt references (stuff like "bursts out of his chest like in Alien", though that may not specifically have been one of them) and. S G Jones knows what horror fans want, and why they want it, and boy does he give it to them. There is no point in trying to determine who the killer is, because at various points in the re-generating narrative you'll be either wrong or right, and the twist ending is pulled from nowhere. ![]() The trilogy is a franchise based on a slasher, or demons, or possessed coma patients, or something or other, in which sexed-up, boozed-up, and drugged-up twenty-somethings are being killed in pretty spectacular ways. The novel is broken up into three parts, each describing or retelling the events of a film in a horror trilogy. This is a novel - perhaps the novel - for horror film fans. ![]()
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