The history surrounding the lake, urban legends, and local celebrities weave together to create something that’s fairly close to reality, or at least, reality in a horror film. The town of Proofrock has many details to make it feel more realistic.
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Jade’s enthusiasm is on full display and the desire to have someone understand why you love something so much is basically why websites like this are started, and why I myself began writing in the first place! Even with these interludes, it does feel like a lot to digest, however. As these are to her kindly-and-now-retired History teacher, they read as a horror aficionado explaining the ins-and-outs of slashers to someone who probably looks at you funny. Throughout the book are Jade’s writing assignments for school, full of run-on sentences and “see, I told you so!” attitude-hilarious and helping break up the tone as events get darker. The simultaneous need for attention and praise while also never wanting to speak to other human beings again, rebellion (especially against authority), and attempts to understand our place in the world. From personal experience as an angry teenager dealing with self-harm and family troubles, it hits close to home. Often, it tends to come off as over-the-top, forced, and unrealistic but I don’t find that to be the case here. In addition, Jones has truly mastered the art of writing from a teenage girl’s point of view-a difficult task at the best of times.
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The sheer amount of movies mentioned is impressive and made me want to have a movie marathon. If you’re reading this review you are definitely in the right demographic for Chainsaw though-this is Horror Obsessive, after all. Unfortunately, this is a double-edged sword and makes the book a bit difficult to come at from a casual (aka not a slasher fan) angle as many of these direct references will go over the layman’s (for lack of a better word) heads. It’s an interesting experience to have Jade name drop famous characters like Sidney Prescott or Laurie Strode who are so familiar to fans of the genre but rarely mentioned in books unless they are “horror films you should watch” style lists or deep analysis into the genre as a whole. It’s not often I read a book that directly talks about so many things I know. Jones knows these films as well as we do and it just made me smile page after page. Jade excitedly recites memorable scenes from the best slashers, from Friday the 13th to lesser-known favourites like Popcorn. In typical fashion to the movies she loves, there are twists and turns and over-the-top deaths written with wonderfully gruesome detail.įor horror fans it’s like a box of your favourite chocolate–the references and inspiration for Jade come from a place of love to all our fellow weirdos.
It’s with this background in fictional killers that she tackles the problem, going over what each would do and, with an almost mathematical-like precision, tries to decipher what will happen next. With an encyclopedic knowledge of slasher films, she becomes obsessed and entangled in what she believes to be the next Halloween going on right in front of her eyes. My Heart Is A Chainsaw follows Jade, a half-Indigenous teenage girl living in the small town of Proofrock, Idaho. Coming off the success of his previous book, The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones returns with another deeply investing story.
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