Tobe Hooper, the legendary director of genre-defining horror films such as [amazon_link id=”B000FS9FE4″ target=”_blank” ]The Texas Chainsaw Massacre[/amazon_link] and [amazon_link id=”B001AQO41E” target=”_blank” ]Poltergeist[/amazon_link], has found his “lost” film. Tobe made Destiny Express when he was 15 and it hasn’t seen the light of day for more than 30 years. After a screening at South by Southwest, some horrible, even supernatural events start befalling all those who saw the movie that night. Soon, the audience members’ friends are affected, too. And their friends. And their friends. The effects grow exponentially, and before long, people are dying by the thousands. Suspecting that the solution to the movie’s strange power lies in his own past, Tobe begins a desperate quest to understand the film’s 30-year-old origins.
That’s the initial premise of Hooper’s funny, scary, entertaining and unforgettable debut novel, [amazon_link id=”0307717011″ target=”_blank” ]MIDNIGHT MOVIE[/amazon_link] (Three Rivers Press, Trade Paperback Original, on sale July 12). Publishers Weekly said, “Hooper demonstrates an undeniable talent, using established horror tropes with considerable skill and ingenuity.”
Like [amazon_link id=”0307346617″ target=”_blank” ]Max Brooks’ World War Z[/amazon_link] and [amazon_link id=”0446563072″ target=”_blank” ]Seth Grahame-Smith’s Abe Lincoln, Vampire Hunter[/amazon_link], [amazon_link id=”0307717011″ target=”_blank” ]MIDNIGHT MOVIE[/amazon_link] is a strange and surprising mix of fact and fiction. It tells the story of what happens when one of Hooper’s films causes a deadly, supernatural contagion to spread across America.
Like Hooper’s genre-defining 1974 film The [amazon_link id=”B000FS9FE4″ target=”_blank” ]Texas Chainsaw Massacre[/amazon_link], [amazon_link id=”0307717011″ target=”_blank” ]MIDNIGHT MOVIE[/amazon_link] will surely cause a stir. Hooper’s fans will especially love it as the book plays cleverly on numerous elements of the director’s real-life biography— including the car wreck that nearly killed him, and parallels to Hooper’s real lost film.
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