"The hills have eyes" is probably one of the top one thousand movies of the 20th century and we are indebted to Wes Craven for making such a wonderful masterpiece. Craven then movied on to make touchy-feelie pictures as "A nightmare on Elm Street" and "Scream". But being the multi-talented man that he is, it is inevitable that he would write a book. [Yes Ash - on your evolutionary chain of being this is the reversion to the slime mold!]
I randomly picked up Craven's novel when I was doing my weekly chaotic book grab at the public library. I start with some book, look at the author's name or a key word in the title and then go search using those words. In this case the cover sold me.
Craven has spent a lot of money making a high tech pseudo-hologram cover page of a dude rotating his head. By holding the book at arm length and slowly rotating about a 20° angle you can see a guy shaking his head in a "No! No! No!" pattern.
Of course the cover is set in a lovely hue of black and on the back cover Craven affects un pose du penseur [handholding chin - thoughtful yet very evil in a master versus Dr. Who type way]. The ISBN label is a tad annoying, but I am sure that a little black marker could fix it up nicely and Craven's black sweater would blend into the cover.
The font used for the book is Cyrillic Stressed or Verdana. With a beautiful silver hue that can be found on the odd dead ally cat - you almost want to open the book and look at it.
As one final point, there is a legal statement after the title that says - [A NOVEL]. Brilliant! You suck everyone into believing that this is the long awaited biography of a young humanities lecturer professor, who turned to movie making after a prolonged avocation of duct taping cats to poster boards.
Anyhow, Mr. Craven reminds me of a musician that secretly wants to be a comedian [think of Bono - no don't do that …ouch!] Mr. Craven wants some respect from the literary community, however he won't find it because all of his fans are illlitterates. Stick to movies - it will cost you too much money to buy your own books in order to make it to the best seller list!
