Boneland by Thomas Jeffrey

Author:Thomas, Jeffrey [Thomas, Jeffrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, Novel
Publisher: Darkside Digital
Published: 2010-10-27T11:00:00+00:00

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Louise had begun filming A Social Celebrity, her first starring role, and Board—who had sent all his footage for The American Venus via computer to the Paramount labs—found himself between jobs.

As with the two movies for which he’d been the cinematographer (his first and only two thus far), Louise’s new movie would be filmed by a living camera. Once, the arthropod instruments would only have been interested in scenes of blood and suffering. Now, though the creatures were no doubt less enthusiastic, less stimulated, they put up with filming light comedies like The American Venus. They would even allow themselves to record inorganic subject matter these days…landscapes and such without a human or even animal visible in them. Mechanical cameras were being used less and less. After all, they couldn’t film in color or record sound like the living cameras did. If not for them, Louise’s movies might be in black and white, and silent.

Board felt a bit lost without another shoot lined up, a bit left out, as Louise’s magic would now be captured by another man. But, he lectured himself, that he could not expect to film his girlfriend in every movie she appeared in. And he reminded himself that to even think of Louise as his long term girlfriend was masochistic, madness. He chided himself for what his brain called childishness, what his heart—and loins—called longing.

Bored today, and with the stark California sun burrowing into his throbbing brain, Board decided to duck into a cool movie theater to catch a flick. In the lobby of the brand new Mandible’s Chinese Theater, with its green copper pagoda-like roof, he scanned what the multiple screens had to offer. Of the eight films, there were six movies for general consumption, but also two that were rated XX, these being the horror film Night of the Undead and the thriller Silencing the Lambs. The latter was about a deranged mass murderer; Board saw too many of those in the newspapers (mass murderers were seemingly being mass produced in a factory somewhere). He was in no mood for a comedy. He wanted something dark, and chose the horror movie. He heard it had special effects by Lon Chaney, who was also one of Board’s favorite actors (he’d enjoyed Chaney, surprisingly without grotesque makeup, in this year’s Tell It To the Marines, a fairly lighthearted flick about a green recruit who ended up saving his tough drill instructor, Chaney, when they came under fire in Baghdad).

Watching the zombie flick, Board found Chaney’s gore effects inventive and fairly realistic, but the most ghastly scenes of horror were the result of the use of actual cadavers. Hence, the XX rating. For the past couple of years, humans had been acquiring a taste for some of the entertainments (though the Guests protested that they be referred to as such) that the Guests themselves enjoyed. More graphic, shocking action and horror films were available to the public, but since these were by no means to the tastes

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