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I thought The Ruins was kind of fun, but I wouldn't put it onto a top 100 list of anything.
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I found Bird Box to be incredibly tense and effective while reading it. I think it did a great job of making me feel trapped inside a person's head while something is there. The movie didn't have that same level of intensity, and couldn't really.
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The movie kind of sped everything up. The book kind of makes it seems like the things just sort of manifest slowly over time, so each suicide is important and shocking, but we don't really witness most of the apocalypse. In the movie it's like a slightly-crazier black friday suddenly breaks out and pretty much everyone goes crazy all at the same time.
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MockingQuantum posted:Anybody read Final Girls? I just finished it not that long ago, and I enjoyed it more than I thought I would, though I'm not sure if I'd say it was better than I expected. It feels like a guilty pleasure horror novel, which is fitting given the gimmick of the book (the main character is the so-called Final Girl of a real life slasher movie-esque killing). Also it's kind of more a mystery novel than a horror novel, in a lot of ways. It doesn't push too many envelopes or anything, but I still liked it a fair bit. I though it was fun. The flashback scenes did a good job of feeling exactly like slasher film, both in the buildup of going to the camp and typical characters and the chaotic attacks. Sort of similarly (though much better) I really liked My Sister, the Serial Killer, about a woman coming to terms with her much prettier and more popular younger sister being a killer, and what to do about it. I don't think it fully classifies as horror, but the book is a pretty perfect blend of dark comedy.
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