However, among the tapes willed to him, he finds a strange home-recording which he initially passes off as a low-budget "found footage" movie. As he repeatedly watches it, however, it works an insidious change over him, fracturing his perception of reality and revealing to him a blasted and terrifying version of the world he knows.
So, get comfy on the couch, pour yourself a drink, and pour another one for Joey, too.
It's very likely this will be his last horror movie marathon.
I think I enjoyed the nostalgia as much as I enjoyed the plot. This is a book that brought back a lot of great memories of Saturday mornings spent in the horror section of the video store picking out movies.
But alas the store managed by Joey Leonard is going the way of all the others, closing its doors forever. Joey has been given the store's entire horror collection and intends to settle in for a marathon and some heavy drinking. He finds something strange in his tote full of movies. A store bought blank tape on which someone has recorded something unexpected. Once Joey starts watching it he can't stop, and it brings on terrifying consequences.
This was a fast paced cosmic horror with an ending I never saw coming. At the start of the book it had me wishing I still had my old VCR but now I feel safer that we have parted ways.
Be careful what you watch, and always be kind, rewind!
My thanks to Kevin Lucia for the review copy.
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