A Midsummer Night's Scream
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A Midsummer Night's Scream
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Narrated by:
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Brittany Pressley
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By:
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R. L. Stine
In R.L. Stine's A Midsummer Night's Scream, the Master of Horror takes on the Master of Theatre!
Oh, what fools these actors be!
It was a horror movie that turned into real horror--three young actors lost their lives while the camera rolled. Production stopped, and people claimed that the movie was cursed.
Sixty years later, new actors are venturing onto the haunted set. In a desperate attempt to revive their failing studio, Claire's dad has green-lit a remake of Mayhem Manor—and Claire and her friends are dying to be involved.
At first, Claire laughs at Jake's talk of ghosts and curses. He's been too busy crushing on her best friend Delia to notice that she's practically been throwing herself at him. What does he know? And anyway, this is her big chance to be a star!
When shooting starts, though, the set is plagued by a series of horrible accidents—could history be repeating itself?
Critic reviews
“Narrator Brittany Pressley delivers a solid performance that…manages to draw in listeners via her age-appropriate tone and likeable energy. Pressley's youthful voice is mixed with just enough life experience to give her the perfect amount of teen angst and youthful optimism – and this renders the story all the more immediate and realistic.” —Publishers Weekly
“Stine is the master of the macabre for the elementary set.” —Library Journal
- none of the characters were likeable
- there’s slut-shaming
- the plot would work as a cheesier Goosebumps book but it felt like a reach for older readers to get any genuine chills from it
- the magic elements didn’t mix with the Final Destination-style kills
On the plus side, there was a lot of gore, but then, R. L. Stein has always been good with body horror. I just wish he’d refined the plot, researched a bit more, and created at least a lead character that didn’t feel like an over-indulged nepobaby.
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