Vampires, Vampires, Werewolves, Vampires, maybe a ghost thrown in here and there … that’s the landscape of a weighty percent of Young Adult fiction in the market right now, and it’s quite successful ! But those aren’t the ONLY things that go bump in the night !
I Was a High School Monster turns the idea of Vampire Teen Fiction on its ear by including the “neglected” movie monsters of the past focusing mainly on the classic Universal Monster movies but giving them a new modern twist. What if the love interest isn’t a brooding vampire who sparkles in the sunlight (sorry Kat) but a promethean “monster” created by cloning a young Marilyn Monroe (a la Frankenstein’s Monster) ? How about a schoolmate who happens to be an unknowing descendant of Imhotep (The Mummy) who is consistently wrapped in bandages from the injuries suffered while participating in various extreme sports ? What happens when a young lady begins to manifest gills and webbing after skinny dipping in the local lake (Creature from the Black Lagoon). These and more tongue-in-cheek homages await a new transfer student.
Visit Hammer High, local high school for the California town of San Onestro – a Sea Side community founded by a very special group of Hollywood retirees who worked with Universal during the 1920s, 30s, and 40s.
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nah, not so much .. the Golden Age knocks out high sachoolers' teeth with a fake straight followed by vicious hook . . . hear the tweet tweet from the li'l big-headed bluebirds flying figure-eights 'round the dazed noncombatants?
ReplyDeleteI really like this one for a script... ABC Family, Nickelodean, maybe even Disney channel await! Its a very VISUAL concept to me and would fit that medium well! Hmmm...and by the time it's ready for production....the Marilyn Monroe clone WOULD be blonde, right? Seriously, though, I do like this one a LOT. It would be my second choice. But I really think it lends itself to a more visual medium. Even a Feature Film for theatrical release! Course many of the novels get there eventually... so you could take it to novel first. But I would have rather SKIPPED the novel of Twilight anyway (sorry here too, Kat!) I am 2/3 of the way through the first one & still wondering when the PLOT is going to start! Romantic, yes, but kinda drawn out. Kaylin is bugging me to read it & so far I can't see anything she can't read, but I do venture she's young enough to actually be BORED reading it.
ReplyDeleteI think that's why Kat wants me to read a little teen fiction afore I dive too deep into I Was a High School Monster. I've been trying to fins an antagonist/ challenge for the characters and she keeps telling me teen fiction doesn't NEED one.
ReplyDeletei can really see this one as more of a "cartoon comic" like on nickelodeon (as someone mentioned above). i have visions of goosebumps meets universal movie classics with a smidge of teenagers from outer space / doug adams.
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