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Stanislas cordova6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Night Film is a little bit like Polanski’s The Ninth Gate - if that movie had been as smart as The Club Dumas on which it was based, if it had been about cult horror films and their reclusive director instead of medieval texts, if Corso’s sidekick had been a homeless aspiring actress and a lovesick drug dealer instead of a demonic chain-smoking blonde. ![]() If that list sounds faintly ridiculous, that’s because it is - but it’s also absolutely thrilling. McGrath sets out to investigate her death, and becomes embroiled in a terrifying narrative of the Cordova family history, abuse, sexual deviance, and demon worshipping. Scott McGrath, an investigative reporter “who’d go to hell just to get Lucifer on the record” but has recently fallen out of favor due to some ill-chosen remarks made on live television, is skeptical, perhaps because McGrath blames his fall from grace on Ashley’s father. Ashley Cordova, the daughter of reclusive cult film director Stanislas Cordova, has been found dead, and her death ruled a suicide. ![]() Night Film is part detective fiction, part horror story, part film buff’s fictional wet dream. “Everyone has a Cordova story, whether they like it or not,” begins Night Film, Marisha Pessl’s second novel. ![]()
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