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description: HES NOT FREDDY HES NOT JASONHES ALL WASHED UP.As Nicky Hectorthe unstoppable slasher from the Lunatic horror movie franchiseJonathan Zain reached levels fame once unimaginable to a young actor. On top of headlining fifteen films he appeared on MTV had his own 976 number and became one of the most recognizable faces of the 1980s.But that was thirty years ago.Now its 2010 and Zain is a has-been celebrity making his living signing autographs at fan conventions a relic of the bygone slasher movie boom. Hes broke separated from his wife and children lives in a crummy apartment and hasnt landed a role in years.When he learns the studio is remaking Lunatic he thinks its his chance for a comeback. But Redmax Studios isnt interested in resurrecting Zains fame. They want the reboot to have a new face to escape the campiness that plagued the latter films in the Lunatic series. For the studio this is a brand-new start.For Jonathan Zain it's the last straw.Discovering the remake is being filmed at the same rafting center as the original and his former final girl co-star Lola Lang is involved Zain begins a descent into insanity. He slips into his old costume sharpens his meat cleaver and brings the Nicky Hector character back from the dead for one last bloodbath.Kristopher Trianas latest is a chillingly convincing portrait of an aged horror icon driven to the brink of madness as he fights tooth and nail against an inexorable slide into irrelevance. Loaded with fun references to the glory days of the slasher genre Ex-Boogeyman is a bloody and thrilling feast for horror fans.Bryan Smith author of Merciless
language: English
title: Ex-Boogeyman
publisher: Bad Dream Books