It doesn't happen very often, but once in a while, once in a great while, a book comes along that is a bountiful gift to horror movies lovers who also love to read. Oh, it is attempted fairly often, but rarely are the end results satisfactory. I'm thinking of Greg Kihn's Horror Show, David J. Schow's Silver Scream anthology. I'm sure there are more, but I'm coming up dry in trying to think of any.
Tobe Hooper's Midnight Movie is a total and utter joy from the first page to the very last page. It's a wonderfully entertaining story of a zombie apocalypse...
WAIT! I know, you're getting ready to click away from this page and I don't blame you. I've had enough of zombies to last several lifetimes. But there is still room for something new in the hoary, done-to-fucking-death zombie subgenre. And Tobe Hooper has honed right in on it, using the same cinematic style that made him a famous (and in some circles, infamous) horror director.
It was an ingenious stroke to have Hooper himself as the main character in his own story. He comes across as a slightly grumpy, humorous, essentially decent guy with a passion for filmmaking.
You see, according to Midnight Movie, Tobe Hooper made a ghastly zombie movie in his teens called Destiny Express. Of course it's a piece of shit, but somehow it survived the decades since the unpolished young director and his friends made it. An uncomely fan has unearthed a print and plans to show it at a dive of a nightclub. But something very odd happens. Everyone that attended the screening of Destiny Express has changed. A chaste young girl becomes a sexual predator. A man who works for Homeland Security becomes a terrorist. A horror-loving blogger becomes a cooker who causes meth explosions all across town. What is it about Destiny Express that created the so-called "Game" that is bringing society to its knees? You'll have to read Midnight Movie to find out.
I loved this book! I laughed on every single page, I gave a shit about the characters, I wanted to have a shot of Maker's Mark with Tobe Hooper. And now I want to go back and watch all of his movies all over again. Even the really shitty ones. Well, maybe I'll skip Coc-o-shit, I mean Crocodile.
What more could you ask for? Tobe Hooper as an unwilling and unlikely hero out to save the world from a trashy movie he made as a kid! What could be more perfect?
Tobe, if the suits won't give you money to make the movies you want to make, keep on writing books like Midnight Movie. I'll be the first to buy a copy of every one.
Tobe Hooper's Midnight Movie is a total and utter joy from the first page to the very last page. It's a wonderfully entertaining story of a zombie apocalypse...WAIT! I know, you're getting ready to click away from this page and I don't blame you. I've had enough of zombies to last several lifetimes. But there is still room for something new in the hoary, done-to-fucking-death zombie subgenre. And Tobe Hooper has honed right in on it, using the same cinematic style that made him a famous (and in some circles, infamous) horror director.
It was an ingenious stroke to have Hooper himself as the main character in his own story. He comes across as a slightly grumpy, humorous, essentially decent guy with a passion for filmmaking.
You see, according to Midnight Movie, Tobe Hooper made a ghastly zombie movie in his teens called Destiny Express. Of course it's a piece of shit, but somehow it survived the decades since the unpolished young director and his friends made it. An uncomely fan has unearthed a print and plans to show it at a dive of a nightclub. But something very odd happens. Everyone that attended the screening of Destiny Express has changed. A chaste young girl becomes a sexual predator. A man who works for Homeland Security becomes a terrorist. A horror-loving blogger becomes a cooker who causes meth explosions all across town. What is it about Destiny Express that created the so-called "Game" that is bringing society to its knees? You'll have to read Midnight Movie to find out.
I loved this book! I laughed on every single page, I gave a shit about the characters, I wanted to have a shot of Maker's Mark with Tobe Hooper. And now I want to go back and watch all of his movies all over again. Even the really shitty ones. Well, maybe I'll skip Coc-o-shit, I mean Crocodile.
What more could you ask for? Tobe Hooper as an unwilling and unlikely hero out to save the world from a trashy movie he made as a kid! What could be more perfect?
Tobe, if the suits won't give you money to make the movies you want to make, keep on writing books like Midnight Movie. I'll be the first to buy a copy of every one.
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