Both have a personal interest in the mysterious Cordova. McGrath has two young people, Nora and Hopper, to help in the investigation. It must have taken a lot of work to assemble. The graphics present a challenge to both author and publisher. In these, tension is created by the mere accumulation of detail and pseudo-documentary evidence. It’s the computer-age equivalent of the rhetorical horror stories of H. But I say take the next step, imagine a special e-reader edition, and now add some animation and put it on You Tube. These all give critical information to solve the puzzle. The first thing noticed is how the story advances through documentary evidence: photographs, official forms, newspaper web pages, text messages, and mock social media entries. Night Film is a very long book, but not all of it is text. McGrath tries to recover from the failure of his earlier investigation by looking into the unexplained death of Cordova’s young adult daughter. Actors working on them report being traumatized by the experience. Cordova is no longer making his disturbing pictures, and the director remains an enigmatic, reclusive figure to the verylast of Night Film’s almost 600 pages.Ĭordova’s films are always on macabre subjects. I. Scott McGrath has already damaged his reputation looking into the affairs of a mysterious film director named Stanislas Cordova. Night Film is a private investigation thriller with touches of the supernatural.
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