Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this digital ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This was interesting. I typically enjoy books from Paul Tremblay, but this one might have been too much for me. It’s definitely “unforgettable” and for fans of horror I would recommend it. I couldn’t follow the chapters as well as I would have liked and I don’t handle gore that well, but for other people this might be the perfect book!

This was…weird! Eerie, chaotic, incomprehensible at times. I need to think about this one a little more…see if I can better wrap my head around it. Or maybe, as the book says, it is void.

I just finished reading and had to flip back. I thought maybe the last page cut off or something. I am shocked by the ending of this book. Well, shocked and kind of pissed. I spent all this time to be left hanging. Part of me likes that, but a bigger part of me hates it. It feels so unfinished, but that’s the fun part-sort of.
I was uncomfortable halfway through this book and it only got worse. This was a good thing though. I haven’t felt this uncomfortable in a book in a very long time. It made me want to keep reading.

I fully requested this book because the cover is very very very similar to the cover of "Home is Where the Bodies Are" by Jeneva Rose. I was curious about the theme/plot/book, since this is clearly something that would peak my interest. However, I feel that it fell a bit short for me.

This book was interesting. It is a bit slow to start, for me at least, and it left me wondering along the way. Sometimes I like that feeling but this book even at the end I was still left wondering what the heck is truly happening. I felt like the ending didn't end the way I thought it would, it kind of went out like a slow sizzle versus the bang you would have expected.

The timeline, back and forth and then also having the movie portion made it hard to follow at times. I did enjoy the visualizations though that Paul made.

Thank you NetGalley and publisher for my E-ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC in return for a fair and honest review.

I'm not gonna lie; I picked this one up because I got Paul Tremblay mixed up with another author that I adore. When I realized my mistake, I was disappointed, as I've read A Head Full of Ghosts and thought it was just meh. This book, however? A totally wild ride.

I won't waste time on a synopsis, because you can read one anywhere. It's about the making of a horror movie and we move back and forth from past to present. No big deal. But the sense of dread this book evoked was palpable. It was just as if I was sitting in a theater watching the strangest film, knowing terrible things were going to happen and I did NOT want to be a witness to them. My stomach was in knots the entire time I read.

Horror fans, don't miss this one. It's original and terrifying. Four out of five stars.

Tremblay does it again! Another incredible book that plays with our expectations while deftly navigating multiple points in a timeline and film script to create one heck of a journey. If life didn’t get in the way, I could’ve finished this one in one sitting. This is his best work yet. Highly recommend!

In 1993, a young man is asked to appear in a horror film by a woman he knows. He doesn't have any acting experience but is told that his part only has a few lines. The movie is a low budget film with a just a few cast members and crew. Pages of the screenplay are also included. The film was never released and the few clips that have surfaced plus the strange stories surrounding the making of the movie have made it really popular. There are many unsettling events that happen during the filming including, mostly involving the Thin Man. Valentina, the director, and Cleo, the screenwriter, take many chances to get their movie made the way they imagine it. In alternating chapters, we learn that the Thin Man (we never know his real name and this is his character's name in the movie) is the only one alive 30 years later. He begins the process to remake the film. This is a unique take on a horror movie and how the surviving cast member becomes an urban legend.

Horror Movie is a ‘cursed film’ book about an indie horror movie. It centers in on one of the central actors in the movie, and it toggles between the filming of the movie in the past and the character’s current life. This book is not your typical cursed film storyline. It is gritty and disturbing, and some of the visuals Paul Tremblay creates for you will stick with you for a long time. I feel like I should have seen the ending coming, but wow, it got me, and I definitely won’t be forgetting it any time soon.

Sinister. Disturbing. Creepy. I loved it. From the Thin Man to the delusional fans and directors. This is a book that will stick with you long after reading it.

Ooo I loved this book. I watch a lot of horror movies so a book about a horror movie reboot sounds amazing. I will say I guessed the ending but there were a lot of red herrings that helped keep interest. I will be reading more books by this author.

Wow, this was so incredibly disturbing, in all the ways you want from a story like this. There are some scenes that will probably stick with me forever. The body horror… the psychological torture… the creepy, unsettling nature of it all… brace yourself for this one. I liked the dual timeline, the blurring of lines, and my absolute favorite part of it all was getting to read the script. This was a sick, twisted, mindwarp of a book. I can easily see it becoming one of the most popular horror releases of this year. Equally difficult to put down and difficult to stomach reading. So much more than just a “cursed film” story, it’s creepy, sinister, haunting, and unforgettable!

"My theory is that we're in hell. Some of us are demons and some of us make demons because we don't know what else to do ..."

In June 1993, a group of amateur film-makers set out to make a movie called Horror Movie. During the filming, certain events took place that resulted in the movie never officially releasing. Only three scenes were released, and as a result, a fanbase was created out of an interest in knowing more about this unusual cursed horror flick.

Flash forward, the man who played "The Thin Kid" is working to secure a potential reboot of the film. He is the only surviving cast member. As the unnamed narrator begins reflecting back on the filming of the movie, the lines between fantasy and truth are blurred. The unnamed narrator is determined to have this movie finally see the light of day, but old memories, overzealous movie producers, and bizarre fan encounters, make you, the reader, question if releasing this film is the right decision.

Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay is an eccentric story of curses, monsters, and gore. The end, will have you questioning your overall sanity. And the blurring between past / present and truth / fiction, will have you absolutely losing your mind.

3.5/5 as the writing sometimes was a little confusing - but again, maybe that was the intention of the writer.

WTF did I just read, you guys? I was expecting a “haunted movie set” sort of horror and … huh. There are definitely no ghosts to be found here.

But did I enjoy it? I mean, “enjoy” is a strong word since it's not at all an easy book to read. It was engrossing, for sure, but also very unsettling. It did take me a bit to get into the story, I think mainly due to the format, but I was completely hooked by the 25% mark. There was never any chance of this novel ending happily, and yet I couldn't stop reading it.

The format is an unusual one. It switches back and forth between the past (the original filming of the movie) to the present day (the filming of the reboot), but also includes sections of the screenplay in every chapter. Oh, and the narration is actually an audiobook that the surviving cast member has written about the events. It's a lot to sort out initially, but it really works once you've gotten into the swing of things.

That screenplay, though? Yeah, never in a million, billion years would I watch a film based off of it. I'm pretty sure that scenes from the book are already going to stick in my head for years, and I'd probably need therapy after watching a film version. Fans of slasher-type horror won't bat an eye – it's really rather tame compared to a lot of stuff out there – but I haven't enjoyed gory films since my aunt took me to see A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master in the theater when I was nine. I had to come home and go straight to bed and had nightmares about it for years. But, I digress.

And the ending? I mean, you kind of see it coming, I think. There's not really any other way it could end, especially once you learn about the protagonist's “tattoos.” But was I ready for it? Hell no.

Paul Tremblay's HORROR MOVIE lives up to the hype. As a horror book fanatic, I loved the references and throwbacks to 80s/90s horror, and appreciated the innovation in format.

HORROR MOVIE is a dual timeline story that follows the star of an 90s indie horror film that never gets released during the movie's filming as well as present day ~30 years later as reboot talks are underway. This story is filled with tension driven by young-adult invincibility and emotional turmoil and imagery that has the reader turning their attention inward.

Wow. This hits hard in the meaning of what a horror movie is, and what it can do psychologically and physically to viewers. Wow. It’s like we are watching a horror movie as we read and how we would respond to it in real life.

_Horror Movie_ by Paul Tremblay is a disturbing and nightmarish read that will haunt the reader well after finishing the book. Told from the present-day perspective of the actor who played “The Thin Kid” and the horror movie script from 1993, it follows a group of young filmmakers as they film a gritty horror film that became a cult classic, to the present remake of the movie. It blends periods of time and blurs the line between reality and script, revealing real monsters that reside in some of us.

A tale of two timelines- in one a young man is recruited to cast in a horror movie. In the other he is now the only survivor, being cast in a role in the remake of that same film. A film that only exists in online lore and speculation, and of course in the man’s own mind. Including portions of the script of the original film, the past and present narration of the story comes together to tell the story of madness and the human ability to be truly monstrous. I would definitely categorize this book as a slow burn horror. It’s unnerving throughout for sure, but it takes it’s time slowly building to the final scene. I really like that about it. It was a weird little novel, but overall I did like it. I especially liked the past narration about how they filmed the original movie, and how all that ended. I really wished I read this in a physical format, I feel like it would be much easier to follow that way. It took a little while for me to get into this one, but I still enjoyed it.

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It took me a good while to get into this one. I really love Paul Tremblay but I found myself sort of confused for the first half of the book. It did all finally fall into place and I really loved the ending. Overall, I would recommend this book to friends and family with the advice to push through because the second half of the book was worth it for me.

Thank you to Paul Tremblay, William Morrow, and NetGalley for providing a free copy of this eARC in exchange for an honest review!

Horror Movie follows a character who once played the Thin Kid in a cult horror film many years ago--but did he ever stop being the Thin Kid? It might be a bit unclear. With only 3 scenes formally released to the public, it is no wonder that years later there are plans to remake the film in its entirety despite all but one of the original cast members dying under strange circumstances.

The structure of the story appears to be meant to throw the reader off a bit and keep them on edge. This is reflective of the main chatacter's mental state, as I would say that he is an unreliable narrator. The story is told via 3 different points in time; the narrator's present, past, and through scripts from the original "Horror Movie" that were previously never released. We follow the narrator as he slowly comes to terms with his past, along with the newfound fame that came at quite the cost. The deeper he falls into the hole that is the new Horror movie, the more we watch as his mind fragments and falls into madness. It really is a treat to read the story and see how each era presented flows into the other, until it culminates in the finale.

This was an engrossing yet very unsettling book by an author I have enjoyed in the past, and also a book that made me say what did I just read??? It has an interesting format, switching back and forth between past and present of the original filming of the movie to the present day filming of the reboot. That format works actually. The surviving cast members are the ones telling the horrifying story, and it leaves you with a sense of unease and quiet terror as you follow the story. It is a VERY gory book when it describes the screenplay of the movie, typical slasher type film but that didn't bother me as much as it may some. The ending was a little predictable but overall this was a very creative, unexpected and dark book. Definitely for horror fans!