How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

What gloriously campy fun. 
Gory deaths, hellish consequences, hauntings by grotesque corpses, a camera possessed by occult forces with a Faustian twist, and yet the true darkness is Hollywood and its way of doing business and consuming souls. 
The author obviously had a lot he wanted to say about horror movies, slasher films in particular, but I'll admit it was hard to take the discourse seriously, or identify as closely with the final girl or obsessive director-turned-perpetrator because everything was at one remove, analyzing how it all fed into ugly truths about the film industry, horror tropes, etc. It got and stayed too ridiculous for me to be anything other than entertained. If you like how the Scream movies critique horror but also ensure the endings stay true to the genre, I think you'll get a kick out of this. 
⚠️animal death, suicide, gore

This book might be my favorite horror book of this year and maybe ever? The story was impeccable from beginning to end. I found myself feeling so many emotions towards these characters. I felt joy, excitement, sorrow, pride, etc. I even cried a little at the end. For someone who loves horror movies and the genre of horror in general, this book spoke to me in a way that I have never had a book do so before.