![]() ![]() ![]() Perspectives shift as the book meanders back and forth through time and between characters and I was stuck trying to figure out what it all means. The major problem is that this book never really makes that answer clear, or tells you what the hell it really is. ![]() In a lot of ways this is a successful tactic, because even though I didn’t get this book completely I found myself continuing to read it just because I wanted to know what was behind the videotapes. The ominous tone of the book reminds you of the feeling you get when you watch a David Lynch movie or The Ring, though the plot is not as straightforward. The only word I can think to describe this book is cerebral, because the disturbing imagery it describes does manage to rattle your brain and leave you with a sense of impending danger. He shares the videos with the store’s manager, Sarah Jane, and she eventually becomes drawn into the discovering their origin, the farmhouse where it was made, as well as the mysterious woman behind them. ![]() The scenes appear to be poorly shot home movies with people being controlled by others in masks. At first Jeremy, a young employee, brushes it off, but when he watches the videos for himself it greatly disturbs him. It’s the 1990’s, and someone is placing disturbing images on VHS tapes at the local Video Hut in the small town of Nevada, Iowa. ![]()
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