Talking about movies - I will certainly continue doing my watch-at-home-festival thing BUT we can actually go back watching movies in theatres again! I have opened the post-corona season with Dennis Villeneuve's Dune yesterday and I can't wait to go back for the Fantasy Fimfest in October/November and The Final Girls Berlin Film Festival at the City Kino Wedding around Halloween, I'll keep you posted about the schedules and my selection.
Slowly but surely, the "Indian Lake Trilogy" is on its way to become author Stephen Graham Jones' magnum opus - that's the prime takeaway from the recent, massive and very much justified success surrounding its second installment Don't Fear the Reaper (only Reaper in text for purposes of brevity). It isn't unusual for a second book in a series to achieve more success than its predecessor, the first one having already separated the wheat from the chaff among readers and having established a backstory and setting for the protagonist. Solely people who accept and enjoy the terms set in the first book will stick around for more. The first book My Heart Is A Chainsaw ( Chainsaw ) of the Indian Lake series and its follower Reaper are no exceptions. When Chainsaw came out in the summer of 2021, it truly dropped like a bomb into horror circles. Even though there had been indigenous representation in the genre, (not the least thanks to Jones himself and his riveting
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