30 review for The Girls from the Horror Movie

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   4 out of 5

   karen – Oct 11, 2021

   SPOOKTOBER DAY ELEVEN welcome to my spooktober audio advent calendar, where, each day during the month of spooktober, i will be celebrating by listening to a free audio short from nightfire's Come Join Us by the Fire series, and you can join ME by following the links. let's all be scared together! 19 minutes it's weird how things synch up sometimes. i am in the middle of reading Cuckoo Song, and i chose this story for my daily audio short and while they are not similar in any other way, both featu SPOOKTOBER DAY ELEVEN welcome to my spooktober audio advent calendar, where, each day during the month of spooktober, i will be celebrating by listening to a free audio short from nightfire's Come Join Us by the Fire series, and you can join ME by following the links. let's all be scared together! 19 minutes it's weird how things synch up sometimes. i am in the middle of reading Cuckoo Song, and i chose this story for my daily audio short and while they are not similar in any other way, both feature sisters experiencing a peculiar...porousness in an encounter with a movie screen because sometimes the darndest things do happen. more sad than scary (although triggering my personal TWINFEAR), this is definitely eerie, and if it turned out that this was only a prelude to a longer story, i would be down to read the rest of it. it's intriguing, and i like my horror a little saddish, so bring it on! listen to it here: https://play.google.com/books/listen?... THE STORIES: OCTOBER 1: 57 REASONS FOR THE SLATE QUARRY SUICIDES - SAM J. MILLER OCTOBER 2: SOME BREAKABLE THINGS - CASSANDRA KHAW OCTOBER 3: EMERGENCY LANDING - SEANAN MCGUIRE OCTOBER 4: THE CHANGELING - SARAH LANGAN OCTOBER 5: THE BEASTS OF THE EARTH, THE MADNESS OF MEN - BROOKE BOLANDER OCTOBER 6: THE FIREPLACE - CLAY MCLEOD CHAPMAN OCTOBER 7: BONE - TADE THOMPSON OCTOBER 8: IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING - MOLLY TANZER OCTOBER 9: DREAM HOME - KAT HOWARD OCTOBER 10: SPAWNING SEASON - NICHOLAS KAUFMANN OCTOBER 12: IT WASHED UP - JOE R. LANSDALE OCTOBER 13: BLACK NEUROLOGY - RICHARD KADREY OCTOBER 14: WHEN THE ZOMBIES WIN - KARINA SUMNER-SMITH OCTOBER 15: WASP & SNAKE - LIVIA LLEWELLYN OCTOBER 16: THIS GUY - CHUCK WENDIG OCTOBER 17: THE POND - PAUL TREMBLAY OCTOBER 18: A LIFE THAT IS NOT MINE - KRISTI DEMEESTER OCTOBER 19: GREENER PASTURES - MICHAEL WEHUNT OCTOBER 20: THAT WHICH DOES NOT KILL YOU - LUCY A. SNYDER OCTOBER 21: COLD, SILENT, AND DARK - KARY ENGLISH OCTOBER 22: WAS SHE WICKED? WAS SHE GOOD? - M. RICKERT OCTOBER 23: THE DAYS OF FLAMING MOTORCYCLES - CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE OCTOBER 24: FLAYED ED - RICHARD KADREY OCTOBER 25: MAMA TULU - JESSICA GUESS OCTOBER 26: THE VAULT OF THE SKY, THE FACE OF THE DEEP OCTOBER 27: EL CHARRO - JOHN LANGAN OCTOBER 28: STANDING WATER - CAITLIN R. KIERNAN OCTOBER 29: MIDNIGHT CALLER - STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES OCTOBER 30: TOOTH, TONGUE, AND CLAW - DAMIEN ANGELICA WALTERS OCTOBER 31: THE QUIET BOY - NICK ANTOSCA come to my blog!

2. 

   5 out of 5

   Kelly⁷ – Jan 04, 2021

   I got it wrong and I thought the spooky season was in January, lol

3. 

   5 out of 5

   Stephanie – Nov 12, 2019

   This was a nice return to a solid horror short story after the last two; a haunting figure, a pair of twins, and a supernatural pull on each in different ways, at different times. Saskia (the narrator) did a noteworthy good job on this one, bringing Veronica and Zoe to life.

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   4 out of 5

   Daria Gray – Nov 14, 2019

   This was lackluster. For something that was supposed to be scary, it was just a let down. I thought I was getting a short story about sisters, and they are haunted by their own movie character. Maybe even attack or kill them. What I gotten what some questions, and waiting for something that never came. This would have been better as a novelette or novel.

5. 

   5 out of 5

   Madhurabharatula Pranav Rohit Kasinath – May 04, 2020

   This was actually 3.5 stars but since Goodreads doesn't have half star ratings, well you can see the rating. The Girls From The Horror Movie does one thing very well - character development. The sisters in this piece, their mental trauma and their antagonism towards each other and ambivalence towards the film industry feels earned and to be honesr, this one factor really made me bump up my rating to 3 5 stars. The atmosphere of melancholy and Depression was also very well done. However this degr This was actually 3.5 stars but since Goodreads doesn't have half star ratings, well you can see the rating. The Girls From The Horror Movie does one thing very well - character development. The sisters in this piece, their mental trauma and their antagonism towards each other and ambivalence towards the film industry feels earned and to be honesr, this one factor really made me bump up my rating to 3 5 stars. The atmosphere of melancholy and Depression was also very well done. However this degree of character development belongs in a novella or a novel and as far as short stories go the resolution was unsatisfactory, with absolutely no catharsis. There is a lot more material there if Gwendolyn Kiste is willing to explore further.

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   4 out of 5

   Hart_D (ajibooks) – Nov 28, 2021

   Oh, I didn't like this one. It didn't really go far enough in any direction. I thought it was veering towards family drama, but that didn't quite pan out. I also thought of Miriam, one of the scariest stories I've ever read, but it wasn't quite like that either. Overall, not for me. Oh, I didn't like this one. It didn't really go far enough in any direction. I thought it was veering towards family drama, but that didn't quite pan out. I also thought of Miriam, one of the scariest stories I've ever read, but it wasn't quite like that either. Overall, not for me.

7. 

   5 out of 5

   Liz (Quirky Cat) – Oct 28, 2020

   The Girls from the Horror Movie was a really clever short story, taking a lot of the classic tropes (and fandom) surrounding horror movies, and turning them into something new. I love the parallels that were woven into this narrative, for obvious reasons.

8. 

   4 out of 5

   Marc D. Hayakawa ✨ – Mar 01, 2022

   3/5 estrellas. Hey, this is a good one!

9. 

   4 out of 5

   Stacy Dollahan – Oct 12, 2021

   3.5 stars

10. 

    4 out of 5

    Donald Armfield – May 18, 2022

    The narrator brings the twins to life in this eerie tale that pulls the past by its side and haunts, even though it was only a single scene, a role in a horror film that promised wealth—not…

11. 

    5 out of 5

    connoras – Oct 18, 2021

    An unsettling concept, with a creepy enough ending, but the story didn't really float my boat. An unsettling concept, with a creepy enough ending, but the story didn't really float my boat.

12. 

    4 out of 5

    Becca – Sep 16, 2020

    3.5 rounded up!

13. 

    4 out of 5

    Penny Rex – May 03, 2022

    Not what I expected at all!

14. 

    5 out of 5

    Lindsey – Mar 31, 2020

    3 and 1/2.

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    4 out of 5

    Kellianne – Mar 07, 2022

    A quick, weird little short. Not scary. Just... weird.

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    4 out of 5

    Morlando K – Jan 03, 2020

    An Interesting short audible story

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    5 out of 5

    Stephanie –

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    5 out of 5

    Jenn –

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    4 out of 5

    Wren –

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    5 out of 5

    Kimberly –

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    4 out of 5

    Courtney –

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    5 out of 5

    Colleen –

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    5 out of 5

    Heather –

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    5 out of 5

    April –

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    5 out of 5

    Tony Smith –

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    4 out of 5

    audrey –

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    5 out of 5

    Danni –

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    4 out of 5

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    5 out of 5

    Karin –

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    5 out of 5

    Hannah –