Wednesday, July 17, 2019

BOOK REVIEW How to Survive a Horror Movie All the Skills to Dodge the Kills by Seth Grahame-Smith


BOOK REVIEW
How to Survive a Horror Movie
All the Skills to Dodge the Kills
by Seth Grahame-Smith
Pub Date 24 Sep 2019

Description

Written by best-selling author, screenwriter, and producer Seth Grahame-Smith (The Lego Batman Movie; Stephen King’s It), with an introduction by horror icon Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street), this is a hilarious must-read for any horror movie fan...and it just might save your life.

Are you reading this in a cornfield, at a summer camp, or in an abandoned mental institution? Have you noticed that everything is poorly lit, or that music surges every time you open a door? If the answer is yes, you’re probably trapped in a horror movie. But don’t freak out—just read this book! With it you will learn how to overcome every obstacle found in scary films, including:

• How to determine what type of horror film you’re trapped in
• The five types of slashers and how to defeat them
• How to handle killer dolls, murderous automobiles, and other haunted objects
• How to deal with alien invasions, zombie apocalypses, and other global threats
• What to do if you did something last summer, if your corn has children in it, or if you suspect you’re already dead

Available Editions

EDITION
Paperback
ISBN
9781683691464
PRICE
$14.99 (USD)


How To Survive a Horror Movie is a revised copy of the book first published in 2007. If you have a copy of the 2007 issue I’d say that you wouldn’t really need to purchase the revised version. On the other hand, if you’ve never read this before then definitely pick yourself up a copy.

Seth has a great sense of humour and it shines through in this tome of surviving the common mistakes characters of modern horror films always seem to make. It is absolutely hilarious, with advice like “The horror movie day is still 24 hours, but 21 of those are night”, and “There are only three months in the horror movie year, July, October and December”.

We all yell the same things at the TV when watching horror movies, in total disbelief at the stupidity of the characters making the same mistakes over and over again leaving to their demise. Seth makes the same observations with his trademark humour.

I’d give this book a 5 out of 5

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