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A review by minimicropup
How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive by Craig DiLouie
Did not finish book. Stopped at 21%.
Decided to DNF this (21%), I was procrastinating picking it up. Just not for me, but others may like it!
🇺🇸 Takes place in 1980s Hollywood, but I wasn't picking up any 80s vibes. It kept feeling like it took place in modern day.
I love horror movies, but don't really like the behind-the-scenes or franchise/lore stuff. This is almost info-dumping horror movie-making facts, but I think I just felt that way because I find that uninteresting.
Our main character is unlikeable, which I generally like, but he was too one-dimensional cranky chip-on-his-shoulder dude for me.
The narration felt like it was trying too hard to be scheming or foreboding. A character would do something and the narration would be like "___ did [insert thing here]. Oh yes, yes he did". It's just wasn't working for me.
The deaths were kind of satirical? They were graphic, gruesome and horrifying ways to go. But it read more like ridiculous, as if someone just described horrible things like guts and blood to gross you out. I didn't feel anything, it was kind of cartoony/comical (that's on my imagination, but I found it hard to imagine it any other way!)
Mood Reading Match Up:
🇺🇸 Takes place in 1980s Hollywood, but I wasn't picking up any 80s vibes. It kept feeling like it took place in modern day.
I love horror movies, but don't really like the behind-the-scenes or franchise/lore stuff. This is almost info-dumping horror movie-making facts, but I think I just felt that way because I find that uninteresting.
Our main character is unlikeable, which I generally like, but he was too one-dimensional cranky chip-on-his-shoulder dude for me.
The narration felt like it was trying too hard to be scheming or foreboding. A character would do something and the narration would be like "___ did [insert thing here]. Oh yes, yes he did". It's just wasn't working for me.
The deaths were kind of satirical? They were graphic, gruesome and horrifying ways to go. But it read more like ridiculous, as if someone just described horrible things like guts and blood to gross you out. I didn't feel anything, it was kind of cartoony/comical (that's on my imagination, but I found it hard to imagine it any other way!)
Mood Reading Match Up:
- Arrogant moviemaker
- Aspiring Final Girl starlett
- Say Cheese and Die Goosebumps-ish, but gorey
- Cursed camera
- Satirical supernatural body horror and gore
Content Heads-Up: Dog death. Body horror, gore, blood, dismembering. Sexual content (consenting). Eyeball stuff.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror and Gore
Moderate: Animal death
Minor: Sexual content