Wednesday, September 10, 2025

The Final Girl Support Group (by Grady Hendrix)

This was my pick for the "weird horror" category in the Read Harder Challenge. I honestly don't know if it qualifies as "weird" horror specifically, but I'm not super familiar with the genre.  But as soon as I picked it up, I couldn't put it down. (Well, I kind of could, because it put me in a very weird headspace, but it is for sure a page-turner.) 

The premise of this one is fun too - it's a world in which slasher movie serieses (series? seri?) are based on true stories of women who have been the "final girl" to survive a slasher spree. They are all takeoffs on real series, so the "Dream King" is Freddy Kreuger, and the "Panhandle Meathook" series is Texas Chainsaw Massacre.  The names are little Easter eggs too, and if even I (who does not enjoy slasher movies) picked up on them, I'm sure a horror fan would love it.

Anyway, the Final Girls are all in a support group, trying to process their trauma. Our narrator has become severely agoraphobic and paranoid, and it's fun to be inside her unreliable and extremely (justifiably) paranoid narration.  Of course, then someone starts coming after the Final Girls. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you, after all.

You'll probably know if this one is for you or not but, if it is, I highly recommend it! 

 

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