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the only Scream sequel I need

The Last Final Girl by Stephen Graham Jones

February 21, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Take the meta-horror-commentary of Scream and dial it up to eleven; there at the top of the stairs, silhouetted in moonlight and brandishing a rusty machete, you will find The Last Final Girl. Stephen Graham Jones is leaning hard into the tropes of teen slasher movies, and if you aren’t in on the joke it will fly over your freshly-severed-by-garage-door-head. The story is presented almost as a film treatment; close ups, pans, POVS, and audience responses are all written in and used with cheeky abandon. […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Horror Tagged With: black comedy, dark humor, friday the thirteenth, gore, halloween, horror homage, horror movies, meta, michael jackson, michael myers, murder, scream, scream queens, slasher films, Stephen Graham Jones, teen movies

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:28 · Genres: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Horror · Tags: black comedy, dark humor, friday the thirteenth, gore, halloween, horror homage, horror movies, meta, michael jackson, michael myers, murder, scream, scream queens, slasher films, Stephen Graham Jones, teen movies ·
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