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Average rating2.3
You remember the brutal crime, don't you? Maybe you read about it on Twitter. Maybe a friend sent you a news clip. Maybe you saw it on an episode of Spectral Journeys that night you were flipping through channels, unable to sleep. Maybe after reading the true story, you won't ever sleep again.On June 1, 2017, six people were killed at a Burger City franchise off I-80 near Jonny, Iowa. It was the bizarre and gruesome conclusion to nine months of alleged paranormal activity at the fast-food joint-events popularly known as "the Burger City Poltergeist." The story inspired Facebook memes, Twitter hashtags, Buzzfeed listicles, Saturday Night Live sketches, and more. But the case was never much more than a punchline?until bestselling writer Daniel Kraus (The Shape of Water, The Living Dead) decided to head to Iowa to dig up what really happened.Presented here is the definitive story of "the most exhaustively documented haunting in history," including-for the first time ever-interviews with every living survivor of the tragedy.The employees of Burger City were a family. They loved one another. At least, at the beginning. But love can make you do unspeakable things.
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⭐⭐ — Great cover on this one!
I feel like I should have enjoyed this one more than I did. The ending was fantastic, but by god was it a slog to get there.
This was a fun experiment from an author I'm not super familiar with, and from what I've gleaned I think I might have been more well served by his more traditional novels.
I really like the concept of this, it's one of those ideas that feels almost tailor-made for me, but I feel like it was being pulled in too many opposite directions and it wasn't able to really excel in any of them. I think the horror elements and true-crime elements both dampened each other's impact and the parody non-fiction elements made the comedy feel a bit tonally out of place. It's kind of like if an artist had full palette of vibrant colors, and instead of using them to highlight and enhance each other, he mixed them together until everything was a boring ruddy brown.
It did really pick up near the end which was pretty much perfect, and bumped it up to a 4 for me, but it was just a little too late.