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HORROR MOVIE

Paul Tremblay

A chilling twist on the "cursed film" genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and The Cabin at the End of the World.

In June of 1993, a group of young guerilla filmmakers spent four weeks making Horror Movie, a notorious, disturbing, art-house horror flick featuring characters with the same names and backgrounds as the actors. The weird part? Horror Movie has grown a rabid fanbase, even though only three of the film's scenes were ever released to the public. Three decades later, Hollywood is pushing for a big budget reboot. The man who played "The Thin Kid" (an unnamed character) is the only surviving cast member. He remembers all too well the secrets buried within the original screenplay, the bizarre events of the filming, and the dangerous crossed lines on set. As memories flood back in, the boundaries between reality and film, past and present start to blur. But he's going to help remake the film, even if it means navigating a world of cynical producers, egomaniacal directors, and surreal fan conventionsdemons of the past be damned. But at what cost? HORROR MOVIE is an obsessive, psychologically chilling and suspenseful twist on the 'cursed film' that builds to an unforgettable, mind-bending conclusion. Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Massachusetts Book awards and is the national bestselling author of The Beast You Are, The Pallbearers Club, Survivor Song, Growing Things and Other Stories, Disappearance at Devil's Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, and the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland. His novel The Cabin at the End of the World was adapted into the Universal Pictures film "Knock at the Cabin." Two short stories "The Last Conversation" and "In Bloom" were Amazon Original shorts. His essays and short fiction have appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and numerous "year's best" anthologies. He lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts with his family and has a master's degree in Mathematics.

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Book Published 2024-06-11 by William Morrow

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Paul Tremblay is one of the most terrifying horror writers of his generation and his new chiller, HORROR MOVIE, is a reason for excitement.

Paul Tremblay's 'Horror Movie' is a brilliant piece about the masks we know about and the masks we don't, the ones we're forced to wear for a lifetime because of our depression and the things we create to make sense of terrible things. He captures the fugue of being young, of finding a bridge to immortality when you're invulnerable, of making mistakes you can't take back. It is intimately heartbreaking and beautifully written, and it's scary in a way that attaches itself to your shame and self-loathing and just starts eating away. It's extraordinary.

With each new book, Paul Tremblay has continued to grow and challenge himself as a writer, in the process building one of the most substantial bodies of work of his generation. HORROR MOVIE is a literary high-wire act, performed with aplomb high above the breathless crowd.

A profound, heart-wrenching, terrifyingly honest novel that's also a cinematic page-turner. HORROR MOVIE zooms in on creation and consumption, integrity and ego, admiration and obsession, and how the desperate search for connection through art can be beautiful, or disastrous. This book is a gift and a curse.

HORROR MOVIE IS not only a haunting, unsettling, and utterly absorbing novel - it is also a twisted manifesto for art and the parts of ourselves we shed in order to create it. It messed with my head and I loved every minute of it.

Macabrely funny and incredibly smart, HORROR MOVIE cements Tremblay's place as a master of horror. It encapsulates the unease of right now - a runaway culture of self-reference with bloody hands. It's everything a horror novel ought to be: lean, mean, and genuinely scary.

In the hands of Paul Tremblay the story of a lost movie becomes a reflection on fear, the monsters we all are, and an investigation of what is a 'horror novel.' It's bold, fearless, a bit sad, and very, very scary.