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twerkingtobeethoven's review against another edition
2.0
I didn't like "The Scream" one bit.
I'm an eighties kid, alright. One of my all time favourite movies happens to be Trick or Treat , a monumental, humongous piece of crap of a horror movie about a snuffed rockstar coming back from the dead because some bullied high-school kid spins his records backwards. Pure, unadulterated & delicious eighties cheese, boyos. Check this out: https://youtu.be/pjOnfKvqGEQ ("Gonna drive my long steel missile down on your love channel")
Even though "Trick or Treat" is so utterly stupid watching it will make you a total idiot (and that's the main reason I love it so much), it features one of the most magnificent soundtracks evah, this:
Fastway's "Trick or Treat" is an underrated hard rock masterpiece from the eighties, featuring Flogging Molly's Dave King's pipes and "Fast" Eddie Clarke's smoking stratocaster.
That said, I went through "The Scream" hoping to find the same sort of mindless Trick-or-Treat fun, but was sorely mistaken.
Unfortunately this book is a mess, and not in a good way. In my worthless opinion, it would have been a whole lot better without all the flashbacks, the pointless Vietnam bits, and the couple of hundred pages dealing with the interior turmoil of the characters.
Two disappointed stars.
I'm an eighties kid, alright. One of my all time favourite movies happens to be Trick or Treat , a monumental, humongous piece of crap of a horror movie about a snuffed rockstar coming back from the dead because some bullied high-school kid spins his records backwards. Pure, unadulterated & delicious eighties cheese, boyos. Check this out: https://youtu.be/pjOnfKvqGEQ ("Gonna drive my long steel missile down on your love channel")
Even though "Trick or Treat" is so utterly stupid watching it will make you a total idiot (and that's the main reason I love it so much), it features one of the most magnificent soundtracks evah, this:
Fastway's "Trick or Treat" is an underrated hard rock masterpiece from the eighties, featuring Flogging Molly's Dave King's pipes and "Fast" Eddie Clarke's smoking stratocaster.
That said, I went through "The Scream" hoping to find the same sort of mindless Trick-or-Treat fun, but was sorely mistaken.
Unfortunately this book is a mess, and not in a good way. In my worthless opinion, it would have been a whole lot better without all the flashbacks, the pointless Vietnam bits, and the couple of hundred pages dealing with the interior turmoil of the characters.
Two disappointed stars.
michaellouisdixon's review against another edition
3.0
For the most part, I found this a rather entertaining horror novel. The end though was spectacular!
neilsb's review against another edition
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.0
verbalken's review against another edition
1.0
Hahahah! I read this Rock n Roll horror novel when I was 17 and just picked it up again out of nostalgia. It's not very well written, but it's entertaining in the way trashy reading can sometimes be.
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