Final cut
Burns, Charles, 1955-2024
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As a child, Brian and his friend Jimmy would make home movies in their yards, coaxing their friends into starring as victims of grisly murders and smearing lipstick on them to simulate blood. Now an aspiring filmmaker, he and Jimmy, along with Jimmy's friend Laurie - the new girl in town and Brian's reluctant muse - set off to a remote cabin in the woods. Armed with a thrifted 16-millimetre camera, they film a true sci-fi horror movie set in a post-apocalyptic world where humans are born of disembodied alien wombs, a homage to Brian's favourite movie The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. But as Brian's affections for Laurie go seemingly unreciprocated, Brian writes and draws himself into a fantasy where she is the girl of his dreams - somehow both his damsel in distress and his saviour.
Main title:
Final cut / Charles Burns.
Author:
Burns, Charles, 1955-, author
Imprint:
London : Jonathan Cape, 2024.
Collation:
224 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 29 cm
ISBN:
9781787335219 (hbk)
Dewey class:
741.5AF
LC class:
PN6728.F5
Local class:
FFTFIC
Language:
English
BRN:
3941503