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It's 1967, the summer of love, ten years after legendary B-movie director Landis Woodley's cult horror classic Cadaver. Now Woodley is shooting a rock and roll movie, complete with beach bunnies, hot rods, monsters and rock bands.But as usual, money is tight.Producer Sol Kravitz introduces Woodley to Tijuana financier Hector Diablo, who invests a huge amount of money in the movie with the proviso that James Dean's death car, which he has rebuilt and names The Impresser, have a starring role.But something else is attached to this movie that's not in the script. Sol is the first to die. Then others. And the payback's a bitch. No library descriptions found. |
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Kihn was obviously growing and improving as a storyteller by this, his third novel. He's never going to be a great writer, and he's never going to be a great horror writer, but his stories are fun.
I probably enjoyed the Impresser story point more than anything else in the novel. The Impresser was supposedly the Porsche Spyder that James Dean was driving when he died, though Kihn drops enough fun hints to make it, if not a brother to King's Christine, at least a cousin.
And Omar and the Apostles? As far as I'm concerned, they could be a book all on their own.
But some of the other stuff rang a bit flat. Beau meeting the ill-fated Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones felt forced. The whole Ramona subplot was far too new-agey for me. And El Diablo and his son, Johnny Immaculata? They just came across as all bluster, no substance.
Yet, for all of that, there's so much crammed into this novel's short 351 pages, there's something to be enjoyed by any reader.
My favourite of the Kihn novels, so far.
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