***Spoiler Warning *** I don't discuss plot points, but the themes may give some of them away. Horror Movie is the latest book by Paul Tremblay, and it initially got my attention because of the cover and the online review site Book Marks Reviews , where it has rave reviews praising it. Any given book on that site has a range of opinions from those who love it to those who don't, but this book received the literal highest praise from every participant reviewer. As for the cover, it features an old, cracked VHS tape; call me nostalgic but that combined with the theme of horror movies which have fascinated me ever since I was in high school, where I didn't have the guts to watch most of them but would religiously study the lore and plots through Wikipedia articles. I was intrigued, but also suspicious. Books that receive such positive accolades are usually ones that have a strong theme, one that the reviewers believe is 'important'. This is not to say that such books d...
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