Hardcover (1989)

Hardcover: Directed by Tibor Takács. With Jenny Wright, Clayton Rohner, Randall William Cook, Stephanie Hodge. A bookshop clerk and wannabe actress starts seeing the disfigured killer from her 1950s pulp novels come to life and start killing people around her. She tries to convince her cop boyfriend, but to no avail.

“Although everything about this movie (especially the title) suggests that it must be trash, surprisingly enough it isnu0026#39;t. The plot involves a girl who likes reading scary books and one day finds that the events of the book she is reading, called u0026quot;I, Madmanu0026quot;, start to repeat themselves in reality. It has the logic of a dream – that is, no logic at all, – but donu0026#39;t see this one for the sake of the plot. What lifts it out of the B-movie pit is the imaginative way the seedy world of trashy novels from the 50s is recreated on screen; the smartly executed shifts between fantasy and reality, past and present; Jenny Wrightu0026#39;s appealing and intelligent heroine; and finally, the directoru0026#39;s genuine feeling for the atmosphere of time and place. It is a little like a cross between Cornell Woolrich and a mad doctor horror movie. Do not try to figure out why things are happening, just enjoy the way this film is so different from anything else. A totally unexpected pleasure.”