Midnight Movie: A Novel | 
It was only recently while browsing a library list online that I discovered that Tobe Hooper-director of Texas Chainsaw Massacre AND Poltergeist among others-wrote a book. MM is about his first effort Destiny Express which premieres during SXSW (in an interview in the afterword Hooper notes that an early film Eggshells had premiered at SXSW). Following the screening there is an outbreak featuring zombies & a lot of uh...strange spicy (CONT)
vivastory time side effects. (If the Smurfs got a series of spicy books, this might be the result) MM is wisely told in epistolary format .I can only imagine how tedious this would have been in regular prose format. I didn't think that I would dislike a book about cursed media more than Tremblay's “Horror Movie“ but here we are. I will admit that there were some clever lines. In one part Hooper says that if he was going to be killed & was in a Eli (cont) 5d
vivastory Roth movie, he'd be torn apart by a group of bloodthirsty businessmen, if he was in a Del Torro a vampire would materialize out of thin air & in one of his own it would be a jump scare featuring a woman holding an axe. I have to say that at the beginning the idea of only 60 people showing up to a screening of a TOBE HOOPER movie at SXSW is laughable. If this had been published a few decades ago, maybe. But the time it was pub. it would be sold out 5d
Reggie Soo speaking of Tremblay, he has a story in the Stand anthology and he brought back Art Barbara from The Pallbearers club, which I hated. But this short story is really good. But you kinda have to have read the PC to get it. And it low key bugs me. lol also, idk but some of these stories are a little crazy pants. 4d
vivastory @Reggie I actually liked TPC. Don't get me wrong, it's not my fave Trembnlyay. Did I like it more than Horror Movie? Absolutely. Did I like it more than the other stuff? No, (edited) 4d
vivastory @Reggie I have the Stand anthology, but haven't started it yet. I'm looking forward to it. I had the exact same issue with Tremblay's The Best You Are that you mentioned. I ended up bailing on it bc it seemed like half of the stories had references to his novels. It felt like he was writing fan fiction to himself. 3d
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