Michelle 's Reviews > Horror Movie

A couple of young filmmakers have decided to make a movie called, Horror Movie. During the filming a death occurs. The film never gets released except for three small clips that were uploaded to Youtube. People claim the movie is cursed somehow since most of the crew members have also died since the filming. Needless to say this gives the non-film a cult following. So when they decide to make a reboot of the film decades later, The Thin Kid, as he was known in the original movie, now in his fifties, decides to reprise the role. Will the movie see the light of day this time around? You'll have to read this to find out.

This was one of my most highly anticipated books of the year so I'm a little bummed to tell you all that this was simply okay. Not terrible, I finished it after all, but far from great in my opinion. I never once found this scary or even creepy. A couple of unsettling scenes, sure, but nothing that would cause chills or heart palpitations. Most of the book reads as a screenplay and perhaps that's why I just couldn't get fully engaged. Maybe the unlikable characters kept me from being fully invested. I don't know. I think I loved the concept of the book more so than the actual execution.

A lot of readers have described this as a real mind-fuck of a novel which is why I stuck with it waiting for that jaw dropping moment. If you know me and my reading habits at all then you know how I love mind-fuckery in my books. However, when the ending finally rolled around, I didn't find it all that surprising in the least. The *WOW* moment for me failed to occur and my mind remains completely unfucked. Dammit! 3 stars.

Thanks to Overdrive for the loan!