Some of that’s down to the core characters - Billy, Tom, Darcey, and Rachel. Like other novels in the Cesare cannon, it certainly wears it’s 80’s horror movie influences proudly on its sleeve - Jason Takes Manhattan is namechecked on the first page - but at the same time, it’s genre aware enough to play somewhat with the format, without either showing distian for the source material ( VIdeo Night is, in part, a love letter to the 80’s ‘video nasty’ roster of movies) or feeling like a simple retread - no simple nostalgia porn for the Stranger Things generation, here. Set in 1988, Video Night is an Invasion Of The Body-Snatchers meets Species creature feature. In fact, I’d say Video Night is pretty much a Cesare classic. So far he hasn’t disappointed, and - spoilers - he doesn’t here either. I’ve been (very) slowly working my way through Adam Cesare’s back catalog, ever since I read his short story So Bad in Splatterpunk #5 (a near-perfect short horror story, incidentally).
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