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mrfrank's review
4.0
MIDNIGHT MOVIE CREATURE FEATURE 2 showcases thirteen stories that rival every cheesy Saturday late night horror flick you've ever seen in your life. Continuing the tradition set in MayDecember Publications first Midnight Movie Creature Feature, this collection continues and reinforces the campieness. If you love a cut-rate radio host introducing low budget monster movies on late night cable then then is the place for you!
The bakers dozen of tales contains some real gems. The opening story is a Hitchcock-esque story of Were-animals set to the tone of a medical report and is brilliant in scope and content. The collection sallys forth with stories about sea creatures, creepy toys, worms, zombies, roaches and even a few unsavory humans. All the contributions really embrace the concept of the late night b-movie yet are solidly written so as the only thing that is campy is the spirit of the story.
There were two stories that felt 'off-the-mark' to me. They didn't feel very 'creaturish' to me and seemed a bit out of place in this collection. But those two are the exception to the rule. And to those story's credit they are both still solid stories even if the editor felt they did exist somewhere on the fringes of the collection.
You can never go wrong picking up an anthology from MayDecember Publications. Continuing that tradition is this beauty, MIDNIGHT MOVIE CREATURE FEATURE 2 will fulfill all your monster story needs at a price that won't frighten anyone. If you know this publishing house then you won't be disappointed and if you've never read anything from MayDecember this is the perfect place to start.
The bakers dozen of tales contains some real gems. The opening story is a Hitchcock-esque story of Were-animals set to the tone of a medical report and is brilliant in scope and content. The collection sallys forth with stories about sea creatures, creepy toys, worms, zombies, roaches and even a few unsavory humans. All the contributions really embrace the concept of the late night b-movie yet are solidly written so as the only thing that is campy is the spirit of the story.
There were two stories that felt 'off-the-mark' to me. They didn't feel very 'creaturish' to me and seemed a bit out of place in this collection. But those two are the exception to the rule. And to those story's credit they are both still solid stories even if the editor felt they did exist somewhere on the fringes of the collection.
You can never go wrong picking up an anthology from MayDecember Publications. Continuing that tradition is this beauty, MIDNIGHT MOVIE CREATURE FEATURE 2 will fulfill all your monster story needs at a price that won't frighten anyone. If you know this publishing house then you won't be disappointed and if you've never read anything from MayDecember this is the perfect place to start.
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