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Work InformationExperimental Film by Gemma Files (2015)
  
Books Read in 2016 (3,692) » 5 more No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) J.Flux | Aug 13, 2022 |  The minutiae of Canadian film history was lost on me although I would probably be keenly interested if I was from the Great White North myself. One thing I know Canada has some fine horror writers and Files is one of them based on this novel and the stories I've read. Having read some pretty weak "Lovecraftian" fare recently by the likes of [a:Pete Rawlik|4912242|Pete Rawlik|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] it's a breath of charnel air that somebody can still write a novel about cosmic horrors without name checking Innsmouth or mentioning a tentacle. (  ) Gumbywan | Jun 24, 2022 | One of the best horror novels I've ever had the pleasure of reading. A great mix of film history/technology and Slavic folklore. So glad I went ahead and bought this with Files' other book "We Will All Go Down Together" because this is slow-burn horror at its finest. *shiver* ( ) allison_s | May 25, 2020 | ) ZJB | Sep 4, 2019 |  ) Carla_Plumed | Dec 3, 2018 |
 When film reviewer Lois Cairns discovers a series of early silent films may have been by Canada’s first female filmmaker, she thinks she’s hit the motherlode: a historically significant find with a mysterious backstory about an abandoned manor to boot. But as Lois digs deeper, she discovers there’s something sinister about the films and what’s in them – and waiting to get out. A classic antihero, Lois is generally disagreeable. A combination of family, work and health stress has her on a downward spiral she copes with using sarcasm and a dangerous mix of medications. You can’t help but stick with her, though, because like her, you can’t turn away from what she’s uncovered. That, and she knows some things about storytelling. There’s a transgressive quality to the way Lois claims her story and insists on telling it her own way. Chilling horror that will appeal to genre and literary readers alike. AwardsNotable Lists
The award-winning author of the Hexslinger Series "explores the world of film and horror in a way that will leave you reeling" (Jeff VanderMeer, author of the Southern Reach Trilogy). Former film teacher Lois Cairns is struggling to raise her autistic son while freelancing as a critic when, at a screening, she happens upon a sampled piece of silver nitrate silent footage. She is able to connect it to the early work of Mrs. Iris Dunlopp Whitcomb, the spiritualist and collector of fairy tales who mysteriously disappeared from a train compartment in 1918. Hoping to make her own mark on the film world, Lois embarks on a project to prove that Whitcomb was Canada's first female filmmaker. But her research takes her down a path not of darkness but of light--the blinding and searing light of a fairy tale made flesh, a noontime demon who demands that duty must be paid. As Lois discovers terrifying parallels between her own life and that of Mrs. Whitcomb, she begins to fear not just for herself, but for those closest to her heart. "One of the standout horror novels of 2015 . . . From an author who has already established herself as one of the genre's most original and innovative voices, Experimental Film is a remarkable achievement." --Los Angeles Review of Books "Experimental Film represents the next, significant contribution to what is emerging as one of the most interesting and exciting bodies of work currently being produced in the horror field. Every film, Lois Cairns writes, is an experiment. The same might be said of every novel. This one succeeds, wildly." --Locus "Experimental Film is sensational. When we speak of the best in contemporary horror and weird fiction, we must speak of Gemma Files." --Laird Barron No library descriptions found. |
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