Horror Show
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Narrated by:
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Paul Brion
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Written by:
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Greg Kihn
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Schlock horror director Landis Woodley lives in a decaying mansion in the Hollywood Hills. When he abandoned the movie business—after being reduced to filming skin flicks and peep shows—he also left a laundry list of enemies, including the IRS. But avid fan Clint Stockbern is determined to write a piece on the alcoholic recluse for Monster magazine. Woodley agrees to the interview—for $600 in cash.
As the tape recorder starts rolling, Stockbern travels back in time with Woodley. He hears recollections of Attack of the Haunted Saucer, the worst movie of all time, and Blood Ghouls of Malibu. But he really wants to know about Woodley's masterpiece, Cadaver. Shot on location in the Los Angeles County morgue, the film was rumored to have used real corpses and everyone associated with the production has been fatally haunted since its 1957 release. But the truth is far more terrifying than Stockbern imagined. Is a dead Satanist, possessed by the devil, reaching out beyond the grave? Or is the reporter the final victim in a diabolical scheme dreamed up by mortals?
Horror Show is a wild and wacky romp that sends up mid-century Hollywood horror movies and schlockmeisters Roger Corman, William Castle, and Ed Wood.
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- Srijit
- 18-08-24
For the Love of Classic Horror
This is a love letter to the horror movies of 70s, the video nasties, the underground horrors of B movies, skirting the edges actual murder footage snuff films mixed with an otherworldly presence. Multiple themes abound, from Aleister Crowley type characters, to John Carpenter and John Landis archetypes, this book revels in the movie tropes of Ed Wood, Vampira and Bela Lugosi - all brought wonderfully together in a neat story that is in parts investigative, haunted, and thrilling. True horror or scary jump scares or disturbing elements are controlled and muted in the novel, but an overall pervasive sense of dread mixed with the love of filmmaking and the lengths to which a director may go to create an iconic horror film forms the fulcrum of the story. A good story, and quite thrilling.
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