A very slow and meandering book with no real payoff. The “Horror Movie” itself initially intrigued me, but the screenplay writing became more and more pretentious as it went on. At one point toward the end, there are multiple pages yapping about a five minute still frame as if it’s the most important thing to ever happen in a horror movie ever. There is one particular continuity error involving a finger that should have been caught during editing, but is lazily explained away by the “unreliable narrator” trope The present day ending doesn’t make any sense at all, and feels like an afterthought.

One of the most boring books I have read. It’s extremely slow and never really gets that interesting. I kept reading hoping for some kind of excitement, but it never came.

Really enjoyed it. Great storytelling. But with a title like Horror Movie, I think I expected to be a bit more terrified. Nonetheless, a good read

I blazed through this book in a couple of days - a testament to how propulsive it is… To an ultimately unsatisfying conclusion. It very cleverly alternates between the story surrounding the filmmaking of both the original, and now the remake (or reboot?, as the book likes to play with the right name for it), and the actual script.. And it does a great job of getting you to look forward to, ultimately, three separate payoffs… what actually happens in Cleo’s script, what happened to the people who made it, and then what happens now… Of those three, two fall flat. What happens to the people involved, that works and feels “right”, but the rest just feels rushed. The actual end of the script is all wrong, and should’ve substituted two characters for its finale… and the real-world, modern-day finale feels very… “movie”, as one character describes something earlier. But, like that character, you’re to expect more than that…