Horror Movie

A Novel

English language

Published July 18, 2024 by HarperCollins Publishers.

ISBN:
9780063070011

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5 stars (1 review)

2 editions

reviewed Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay

"This movie is not for everyone. This movie is for some of us."

5 stars

Paul Tremblay might be my favorite horror author working today. And it is a golden age for horror in all forms. But Tremblay is consistently writing the kind of horror that keeps me up at night; sometimes because I'm too creeped out to sleep, but also because I want to keep contemplating what I've just read. His work has a unique emotional core that resonates deeply with me.

I think that may just be because we're a lot alike. We apparently have similar movie tastes (he starts this novel off with a quote from my all-time favorite director, Andrei Tarkovsky, like c'mon man) and similar tastes in music (based on his novel The Pallbearers Club, which engages with music much like Horror Movie engages with cinema). I also admittedly love the structure of this novel, which is partially a screenplay; novels about fictional films are definitely one of my all-time …