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Post by lynn on Jun 25, 2011 0:23:48 GMT -5
I just discovered that Seth Graham-Smith, famous for adding Zombies to Pride and Prejudice and beginning the current craze with adding horror things to regency novels (Emma and Vampires is apparently no good) has penned a guide to surviving horror movies. I've just downloaded it today, and bought Robopocalypse, so I'll pop some reviews up for everyone really soon!
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Post by lynn on Jul 8, 2011 5:49:51 GMT -5
I've read most of this now and I don't think the last few chapters are going to contain any big surprises.
It's a fairly good, if basic, look at some horror movie conventions that takes the approach that you're already in a horror movie and takes quite a long time in the beginning sorting out what movie you're in before moving on to various survival tactics. It's funny in places but fairly erratic, some things are covered in too much detail (Why so much time dedicated to Snakes on a Plane? Is it the only creature movie you've seen?) while others are skimmed over (like the very brief mention of aliens which turns into a post-apocalypse survival guide, oddly). There's some rudely amusing pictures. Nothing here has been too eye-opening, nothing that we haven't discussed on the show, apart from the book's insistence on trying to jerk yourself out of the movie moment by doing something outside genre expectations, which is an amusing idea the first time it comes up, but soon leads to just dead-ends.
All in all it's a fairly amusing little read and I'd recommend it for horror fans to kill few hours while bored, but it's not earth-shattering. Maybe this show has raised my expectations too high, making me find even hilarious literature pedestrian by comparison?
As a side note I read this in e-book format which became a little awkward because for some reason Adobe Digital Editions doesn't like you looking at pictures. But the hyperlinks to related sections are good fun.
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