Jeff Strand may be best known for his unique blending of horror and humor, and while Twentieth Anniversary Screening may be slightly less wacky than some of his other works, his signature style definitely shines through.
Framed in the format of an online article/podcast/channel, the story centers on -- obviously -- the twentieth anniversary screening of a movie. A bad movie. A painfully clunky, awkward bad movie. Titled “The Roofer,” it’s about -- again, obviously -- a roofer, who during the course of his job suffers an accident and then goes bonkers and kills people with assorted roofing tools as well as other convenient implements. You know, as you do.
The movie itself would have sunk without a gurgle and without a trace, if not for a tragic moment of infamy involving a crazed fan who decides to mimic the murders. Twenty years later, someone gets the bright idea to hold a screening in the very theater where the killings took place. To make an event of it, even, with guest stars and commentary and Q&A.
It’s a totally crass, tacky, shameless move, and everybody knows it, but they go for it anyway, despite the inevitable outrage and protests (though really, the outrage and protests only help bring the screening further into the spotlight).
On the night in question, the theater is packed with the ghoulishly eager and the morbidly curious and the hapless companions they dragged along. And, as one might expect (or even, under the circs, hope), it all goes drastically, bloodily, violently wrong ... but in some of the most absurd ways and with the quirkiest twists.
Peppered, of course, with the occasional friendly reminder to like, share, the book makes for a delightfully fun and irreverent enjoyable read.
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