Review: Fun read, love the concept
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 23, 2013
B-Movie Reels by Alan Spencer is a great book that mixes horror with humor and a genuine love of the classic B horror  movies the title refers to.The concept is simple. A young student is given an assignment to watch a collection of old films and write notes on them so that these long lost cheapo flicks can be released on DVD. The notes he makes on them will be used for the back covers of the DVD cases and also in the catalog describing each title.Things go wrong when due to an accident, the projector he was using is broken and he uses one he finds in the old house he is staying in. The house that belonged to his uncle, who caused a horrible tragedy years ago, due to his magic act that might have delved into the dark arts. Well, this projector causes the characters in the movies to come to life and attack the residents of the town. There are some really great B movie titles the author creates to come to life, from glowing locusts, to a maniac who smashes people with a giant hammer called...Mallet. Its got it all from zombies, to cannibal families and every other B movie-drive in-midnight movie type of low budget horror.In with the humor there is lots of violence and death. What more can I say, this book is a lot of fun but still gives the goods in the death count department.There is a sequel to this book called 'B Movie Attack' that I most definitely plan on reading. The author shows a real love and knowledge of the glory days of low budget horror and knows how to put it into a good novel that was truly enjoyable.