Thread: Book Review "Blackout"

Written by Gianluca Morozzi.

The book says that it is a major motion picture. Not sure how it could be.

Probably one of the worst psychological thrillers I have read. Horrible character generation. Basic plot. All the twists are predictable and if that was not enough the ending was terrible.

The book is centered around three characters, Ferro, Claudia, and Tomas. Tomas is the son of two hippie parents who do not care about him. He falls in love with a girl in Parma who is beaten by her parents. Claudia is a closet lesbian college student who is working at a strip club for the summer to earn money for college while her roommate/girlfriend is producing a film in Morocco. Ferro is a homicidal maniac who likes to drug and torture people, his latest victim, who he left in his shack, had his face skinned off and nailed back on upside down.

The plot is that these three people get on the same elevator in this nondescript apartment building and the elevator breaks down. They are trapped in this elevator for 12 hours. Tomas was supposed to run away with his girlfriend and misses his train, Claudia can't help but whine about the pig owner at the strip club or the way Ferro is staring at her in the skimpy outfit, and Ferro is trying to be charming while not to appear a lunatic.

I'll stop there cause it gets predictable from there and because I hate it when people ruin endings for me. Also the book makes wonderul use of F bombs and near p0rnographic fantasies by Ferro, concerning Claudia and Tomas.

Read it if you want to waste a few hours.

I saw this movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088816/some years ago, and it was half decent. I think there may be several movies with this name.

Jordan