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Cinema 7 Kindle Edition

by Michael J Moore (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
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Something has taken a liking to the children of Mount Vernon, Washington. Its eyes are orange, and glow like fire. Its hissing voice is the autumn wind.

It hovers over them at night, casting snake-like shadows that dance on the walls. It laughs and taunts as they cry in their beds. It says it wants to take them trick-or-treating.

Halloween is in a week.

Kyle McIntosh is hardly aware when the first four kids are abducted, their families slaughtered. Though news-vans litter the streets, his 16-year-old heart has just been broken. Night-after-night, more children are taken. More bodies are left behind.

When Kyle’s little brother claims an orange-eyed monster has been visiting him at night, ignorance ceases to be an option - because their family might just be next.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09H4X4Z76
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ HellBound Books Publishing (September 24, 2021)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 24, 2021
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3869 KB
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  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 424 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

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Michael J Moore

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My books include After the Change (published by MKM Bridge Press), the horror novel placed on the Bram Stoker Preliminary Ballot 2019 for Superior Achievement in a Novel, Highway Twenty (published by HellBound Books) and the soon to be released thriller Secret Harbor (to be published by Black Rose Writing).

My work has appeared in Blood Moon Rising Magazine, Horrorzine Magazine, Schlock Magazine, Minutes Before Six, Terror House Magazine, Siren's Call Magazine, Black Petals Horror/Science Fiction Magazine, HellBound Books anthology “Ghosts, Spirits and Specters”, The Electric Press, Dissections The Journal of Contemporary Horror, Soteira Press Anthology “What Monsters Do For Love”, The Point Magazine, The Huffington Post, Carecovidartresource, has been adapted for theater and produced in the Seattle area, is used as curriculum at the University of Washington and has received an Honorable Mention in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest. This year I also have short stories being released by Rainfall Books, Horror Tree – Trembling with Fear, Transmundane Press, The University of Chicago, Awakenings Review, Fox Hollow Stories and Scribe Magazine.

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4.1 out of 5 stars
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Creepy kid trope!
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Creepy kid trope!
I was super excited to read this book as I am a big fan of the creepy kid trope like Children of the Corn and Poltergeist!Kids are going missing. Parents are being murdered. There is a monster on the loose with glowing eyes. This is the stuff nightmares are made of! The horrors element was on point. There was lots of blood and gore. The only reason I knocked the book down a star is because I felt it could have been shorter. I loved the story and it is most definitely one for an horror fan to pick up.Thank you to Blackthorn book tours for the #gifted copy of the book.
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mum of 3
5.0 out of 5 stars Another smashing horror book from Michael J Moore
Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2021
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When it comes to horror, Mr Moore does not disappoint. I loved his previous books, including Highway Twenty (which was on the 2019 Bram Stoker Preliminary Ballot) and this book Cinema 7 does not disappoint. In fact, I would go so far as to say, I think it's even better! I was captivated by the horror and by the romance between the two main characters and by the author's use of dialogue. I could not put the book down.
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Jasmine
3.0 out of 5 stars An intriguing horror story
Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2022
Cinema 7 is a horror story about creepy kids. Now, we all know kids can be nightmare fuel for a multitude of reasons if horror movies are to be believed. As a parent myself, I, thankfully, have never experienced anything outside the norm with my two kiddos. But in this book, Kim's mom and her boyfriend (along with some other parents in town) are about to discover that their kids are being hunted and taken over by a demonic entity.
In Mount Vernon, kids are going missing, and their parents are turning up dead at the crime scenes. Who is murdering these adults and stealing their kids? That's what the police are trying to figure out.
Kyle McIntosh is a 16-year-old boy who only cares about the fact that his girlfriend dumped him and has moved on already. He's dealing with a broken heart in his own way, but that leads him to witnessing the missing children one day. The only problem? There's something wrong with them. Traipsing around town with weapons, wearing nothing but stained night clothes/underwear, these kids are menacing, and their eyes are glowing orange. Kyle isn't sure what's going on, and he doesn't think the police believe him when he explains what he saw.
Then, his little brother starts talking about an orange-eyed monster visiting him at night. Now, Kyle is taking things more seriously. His brother might be the next one to get taken, and Kyle knows if he can't uncover the truth, his family just might be next.
This is an interesting read. The story starts off with a dark, disturbing scene, and then it slows down a bit. And while the story holds steady, while also throwing in more creepy scenes and some gore for good measure, it never really got under my skin the way I expected it to.
I love horror. I've been reading it/watching it since I was a kid (around 6 or 7), and there are actually quite a few things that freak me out. Usually farm animals, but that's a different story. Creepy kids, not so much, unless they're done in a way that really makes me uneasy (like the kids in Children of the Corn, perhaps). Cult-like emotionless children are scary. And these kids had that vibe, but they didn't quite freak me out in the same way.
I felt like the story was a little slow at times. I found myself struggling a bit in spots, but overall, I did enjoy Cinema 7 for what it was. It's definitely a different sort of horror story, and I'm glad I took a chance on it and read it.
3.5 stars!
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Julie S. Porter
4.0 out of 5 stars Nightmare Fuel Images Are The Highlight
Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2021
Spoilers: I really thought after all the psychological thrillers and supernatural horrors that I have read and reviewed over the past five years, I thought that surely nothing could scare me. Yes folks, I was immune from nightmares.

Clearly, Michael J. Moore was on a mission to prove me wrong.

Because no sooner than I began reading the first chapter of Moore's gruesome dark disturbing horror novel, Cinema 7 a chapter in which Kim, a little girl stabs her mother and mother's boyfriend at the behest of a monstrous figure in her room than my subconscious became severely affected.

Not only does that lovely image begin the book but three other children do the same to their families leaving six parents dead and four children self made orphans and missing. Oh and right before these not so adorable tykes commit these horrific murders, they go through a change that seems to be a composite of the evil monster sexually abusing them then eating them alive.

Not only do these kids become undead psychopaths but their bodies are altered to make them almost demonic with gravelly deep voices and orange lights in place of eyes. Ah yes, reading this book late at night with the lights off does wonders for an already fragile psyche that imagines killer demon children with glowing eyes. (The description does not do it justice. Trust me, Moore's writing style definitely makes the Reader shiver with unbridled terror.)

Unfortunately this attack is not an isolated incident. Kyle McIntosh, a local high school boy with a tenuous connection to where the murders take place (his former girlfriend, Claudia, lives in the same trailer park where they happened), runs into the children in their demonic glory. Terrified, he tells the police who surprisingly believe him (video camera footage also showed the kids). Unfortunately, attacks are starting to increase as this strange monster possesses more kids and more family members turn up violently murdered leaving Kyle, his friends, family, and his new girlfriend, Marie, to face this seemingly unstoppable army bent on violence, mayhem, and revenge.

The Nightmare Fuel is palpable throughout this book. It's the type of book where a seemingly happy family could one night fall prey to violence by their youngest child who barely understands what they are doing before they pick up a knife and slaughter their parents, older siblings, and pets.

There are some ghoulish images of small infants unable to walk, all of a sudden springing up to commit murder. A toddler whose neck is broken during an escape attempt has a conversation with his older brother with his head leaning over what remains of his neck. And those eyes, the glowing eyes burn from the page into the Reader's souls.

What also makes this situation more monstrous is how it starts and how it continues. I won't reveal too much but the monster is motivated by hatred at someone. Someone human did something horrible to begin this rampage and was never caught. Sometimes as horrible as the supernatural is, the natural, the human can be far worse.

There is also the fear over how unstoppable this attack is. The monster goes throughout the town attacking family after family. Even the protagonists' families are attacked. It is not understated how this attack traumatizes everyone involved. Almost a whole generation of an entire town's childrens are possessed and parents are violently killed. Those that survive are certain to have the worst kind of PTSD imaginable. All because one character did something horrible and another sought revenge by punishing everyone around them.

The fear factor of the monstrous children and their leader's motivations and origins are the most memorable parts of the book. It overshadows some of the downfalls of the book. Kyle's romance with Marie is the stuff of typical teen angst and brings down most of the plot, except when the attacks affect them personally. Also his earlier relationship with Claudia ends up being unnecessary, especially since she herself barely appears in the book and is mostly talked about barely shown. Kyle and Marie also make some questionable decisions that are probably meant to make the Reader suspicious, but since they are proven to not be important. They don't lead to anything except for the Reader's exasperated sighs over how foolish these characters act.

But what can't be forgotten is how terrifying the monsters in this book are. It is the type of book that is best read in the dark for a good scare but only after checking the hallways, through the windows, and the children's bedrooms for pairs of eerie glowing orange eyes.
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BethHungHerself
5.0 out of 5 stars If you put all the kids from Children of the Corn and Damien from The Omen in a blender....
Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2022
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First off, I love stories about evil, creepy kids. This story doesn't disappoint. Mr. Moore is a fantastic writer and he captures these children very well, especially the character of Kim. She is the absolute heart of this story. I also love the cover! Great job!
I will definitely be reading more from Michael J Moore.
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