HOT SPLICES features eight interwoven tales about the Film Addicts, the flicker freaks, the Cinephages - they devour film for the high, to connect to the art on the granular level...the bleeding perforations in their skin is just part of the game. There are five forbidden films, when run together, can induce madness, or relea... se the Dark Gods that created them, speaking through the psychopathic director. There is a man on the run, with a lost movie that others would kill to obtain. He barely escaped with his life. There is a tower, once housing for students, now a crumbling, rotting monument to film history, and the men and women who returned to the tower, to die watching their favorite films. Beneath the tower, there lies something made of light and shadow. It does not love its worshipers... If you do not love film... If you do not wish to devour it as it devours you... If all you seek from film is entertainment... ...This is not the book for you. From filmmaker Mike Watt, author of "Phobophobia" and "Suicide Machine", director of "Razor Days" and "A Feast of Flesh", comes a brand new collection of horror fiction. You'll never watch a movie again without also feeling like you're being watched. “A fully dissociative experience that carries you away, and drops you into a world that lies just beyond the one we know. A brilliant, moving, nightmarish distillation of youth, nostalgia, and pop culture. You don't read this book, you live it.” - Mark Alan Miller, (Saturn Award Winning Producer of Nightbreed: The Director’s Cut). “Cinematically referential and reverential throughout in a way that only a true movie lover could create for fellow, film addicts. It is an uncautionary tale, brilliantly told and essential reading.” —Scooter McCrae, (award-winning filmmaker, Shatter Dead, 16 Tongues, Saint Frankenstein)read more
BIOGRAPHY Mike Watt is a writer, journalist and screenwriter. He has written for such publications as Fangoria, Film Threat, The Dark Side, the late Frederick Clarke's Cinefantastique, Femme Fatales and served as editor for the RAK Media Group's resurrection of Sirens of Cinema.
Through the production company, Happy C... loud Pictures, he has written and produced or directed the award-winning feature film The Resurrection Game, as well as Splatter Movie: The Director's Cut, A Feast of Flesh, Demon Divas and the Lanes of Damnation and the award-winning Razor Days.
He is the author of the novella collection Hot Splices, short fiction collection Phobophobia, the novels The Resurrection Game and Suicide Machine, and from McFarland Publishing: Fervid Filmmaking: 66 Cult Pictures of Vision, Verve and No Self-Restraint. In 2014, he launched the acclaimed Movie Outlaw book series, focusing on "underseen cinema". He is also the editor-in-chief of the magazine, Exploitation Nation.
Through Happy Cloud Media, LLC, he edits and publishes EXPLOITATION NATION, 42nd Street Pete's Grindhouse Purgatory Magazine. Recently, they published Pete's autobiography, "A Whole Bag of Crazy", and brought stuntman Gary Warner Kent's memoir "Shadows and Light" back into print. In 2019, they'll publish "Night of the Living Dead 1990: The Unseen Version" by Tom Savini.
In 2017, he edited the 40th Anniversary printing of Paul Schrader's TAXI DRIVER screenplay, featuring a new interview with Robert De Niro, published in 2018 by Gauntlet Press.read more
