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Hot Splices Paperback – August 28, 2018

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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 release 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)

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Happy Cloud Publishing began life as Happy Cloud Pictures, an indie film production company based outside of Pittsburgh, PA, run by Amy Lynn Best and Mike Watt. We turned our attention to publishing in 2010 and incorporated as Happy Cloud Media, LLC, soon thereafter.

We offer a wide range of non-fiction and fiction, with a special focus on film-related books, annotated screenplays, and movie magazines.

We are proud to have partnered with special effects legend Tom Savini to bring you NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD 1990: The Version You've Never Seen; and stuntman Gary Warner Kent to bring you his memoir: SHADOWS AND LIGHT; and filmmaker Scooter McCrae, bringing you the one-of-a-kind THE SHATTER DEAD COLLECTION. Not to mention Happy Cloud Pictures' own THE RESURRECTION GAME SCRAPBOOK, the SPLATTER MOVIE ANNOTATED SCREENPLAY, and the DEMON DIVAS AND THE LANES OF DAMNATION ANNOTATED SCREENPLAY.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1st edition (August 28, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 334 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1726337227
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1726337229
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.76 x 8 inches
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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 Cloud 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.

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.

He is the author of the 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 currently the editor-in-chief of the magazine, Exploitation Nation, which does deep-dives into all manner of pop culture, with a special focus on independent filmmaking and artists.

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  • Horror Film Fan
    5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable read
    Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2020
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    Entertaining book. Unique story that allowed caused me to forget about the real world for hours on end. Recommend you read this book.
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  • Doug Waltz
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Haunting Immersion Into The Obsession of Cinema
    Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2018
    Okay, to get the air clear before I start; I have known Mike Watt for a long time. I see him a minimum of twice a year at Cinema Wasteland. I have watched all of his movies and read almost all of his books. I know what you're thinking; well, this is just one of Mike's buddies so he'll write this glowing praise for this book.
    Well, I have lots of friends and if something stinks I'll be happy to tell anyone about it. Luckily, this has never happened with anything that has been created by Mike Watt, in my opinion.
    I would consider Hot Splices a little more sci fi than horror for one reason;
    Flixing.
    Flixing is the main thrust of this book. It deals with people being able to experience a film by putting actual frames of film in their mouth and letting the emulsion dissolve. It is a fictional form of recreational drug use. I call it a drug because it does involve the ingestion of a substance that causes unnatural things to happen to your sense of perception.
    Hot Splices deals with that along with the acquisition of a series of short films that by themselves are less than nothing. Worthless and amateurish. But, when combined they cause horrible, violent things to occur.
    There are people who watch movies. There are people that experience movies. Some become obsessed with them. There are some that are considered classics regardless of genre. In Hot Splices you see what an obsession with film can cause if taken to the nth degree.
    If I were to compare this to anything it would most likely be the work of Phillip K. Dick run through a David Cronenberg filter. Both men created art that is so dense. Every page or frame filled with so many thought provoking things. Author Watt brings the same density to this book and it captures you from the onset and forces you, much like a film watched in one sitting, to get to the end credits. To experience it as it was intended. Hot Splices could, quite possibly, be the most cinematic book I have ever read.
    The back of the book has three short stories that intertwine into the narrative, by referencing things that happened in the main novel. The one about actress Angel St. Satan was the saddest and my favorite.
    Do you love movies? Do you love to discuss film with others? Do you think you know a lot about film? Then Hot Splices will show you wonders you could never have imagined in the world of celluloid.
    Plus, it is creepy and scary.
    Always a great combination
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  • Jaxxie
    5.0 out of 5 stars Strange and Haunting
    Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2019
    It's been months since I read Hot Splices for the first time.
    I haven't been reading as many books in the last few years. Work, stress, attention. Tucking in to a good book seemed like an impossible task, but this book found its way into my hands and I was absolutely compelled to read it.

    I read it in two sittings.
    Since then it's haunted me. Months later and my idle mind will stroll back into the strange world Mike Watt built. A world both familiar and fantastic. Where the dark gods of cinema cling to their crumbling influence as digital rises. A place where the line between occultism, drug use, and film are intertwined in a way that feels, at times, uncomfortably possible.

    At the end of the main story there are a few short stories in the same world that will leave you begging for more of this horrifying world.

    I don't know whether to thank Mike Watt for a fantastic journey, or curse him for creating something so compelling that it keeps me up at night.
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