From
the inside flap
“On a
damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an
abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide,
veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes
the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley’s life and death, McGrath comes
face-to-face with the legacy of her father: the legendary, reclusive
cult-horror-film director Stanislas Cordova─a man who hasn’t been seen in
public for more than thirty years.
“For
McGrath, another death connected to this seemingly cursed family dynasty seems
more than just a coincidence. Though much has been written about Cordova’s dark
and unsettling films, very little is known about the man himself.
“Driven
by revenge, curiosity, and a need for the truth, McGrath, with the aid of two
strangers, is drawn deeper and deeper into Cordova’s eerie, hypnotic world. .
.”
Review
Night Film is
one of my favorite reads of 2019. It is highly recommended for fans of Dario Argento, as it is a dark, funny and twisted love letter to the
writer/director’s works, with its creepy imagery, symbology, and themes that
read like one of Argento’s better, more disturbing works. Night’s structure, with its deeper-into-the-terrifying-labyrinth progressions
and characters, also reminded me─in a better-written way─of Arturo Pérez
Reverte’s novel The Club Dumas, later
the basis for the 1999 Roman Polanski film The Ninth Gate.
Night’s ending─perhaps a
comment on the enduring permutations and perceptions of mystery and legend─may
prove too low-key for some readers, but I was fine with it. This book is worth
owning.
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