A review by octavia_cade
Cinema 7 by Michael J. Moore

dark medium-paced

3.0

This is a creepy slasher horror where a bunch of small children are killed and then possessed, by what I won't say since it would spoil things, and promptly form a zombie mob with which to gruesomely murder their parents. There's a lot of sadistic violence here, which isn't my preferred horror type to be honest, but it moves along fairly quickly. It's helped, too, by an extremely sympathetic and genuinely well-drawn protagonist. Kyle is an average teenager, and he's goodhearted but not perhaps that bright, or that aware, so he's a good choice for this. He flounders a lot, but he feels like a teenager when I'm reading is what I'm saying. He has verisimilitude. Unfortunately, his partner in crime and incipient love interest, Marie, does not. She is far too mature for her age, especially compared to him, so much so that their sex scenes actually made me feel a little uncomfortable, because as much as Marie looks like a seventeen year old girl, she behaves like she could be Kyle's forty year old mother, and the contrast between the very believable Kyle and her completely unbelievable self is noticeable.