Everyone pour one out for the Gore-Met tonight. The Rue Morgue columnist has passed away. Rue Morgue is something of a bible around these parts, and I was a devotee of the Gore-Met's (real name, Andrew Bailees) column. Although the explicitness of many of the movies he covered kept me from watching them, I often found myself seeing films in a new light after reading his opinions on them. He truly appreciated and loved the genre and will be greatly missed.
Book Review: Kill River
What a fun ride! Kill River by Cameron Roubique is the perfect slasher, just in novel form. Seriously, someone should make a movie out of this! The book begins with Cyndi, a quiet, somewhat shy teenager, being shipped off to summer camp on a bus by her parents. She meets three other teenagers on the bus: bubbly, pretty Stacy, jock Brad, and cute joker, Zack. Upon reaching camp, Cyndi and Stacy quickly bond, and when her three new friends decide to run away from camp on a raft, Cyndi joins them. The four teenagers get lost and end up at an abandoned water park, where they begin to get picked off one by one. I really liked the characters here. Rather than typical, one dimensional slasher victims, all four teens were pretty well rounded. Even Brad, the least likable of the group, seemed human. He could seem spoiled or irresponsible, but he clearly truly cares about Zack and Stacey. Meanwhile, the friendship between the lonely Cyndi and popular Stacey was probably the heart of the book. T...
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