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Dead Leaves
- Narrated by: Josh Shirt
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
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Summary
The year is 1983, the boom of the video age, and Scott Bradley is 17, unemployed, and on the dole. Drifting through life, he and his friends love nothing more than to sit around drinking, talking about girls, and watching horror movies. But things are about to change.
As the "video nasty" media storm descends, their desire to find a copy of the ultimate horror film - The Evil Dead - is going to lead them to the most significant days of their young lives. As the law tightens and their way of life comes under threat from all quarters, they come to learn what truly matters to them.
A heartfelt story of friendship, loyalty, and youthful rebellion, Dead Leaves is a darkly funny and brutally honest depiction of aimless life in a Midland town and perfectly captures the impact those first few years of video had on a generation.
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- Leigh Dovey
- 24-02-22
Evocative 80’s story of hysteria and escape
Absorbing 80’s Midlands-set rites of passage for friends hunting an elusive VHS tape, as moral panic and video nasties hysteria unfolds all around them. Evocative and entertaining, especially for fans of S.E. Hinton or Sam Raimi….Recommended.
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- Mr. R. D. Martin
- 12-02-22
A touching Coming of Age story for Horror fans
Have you ever felt like a book was written just for you?
I felt this way while listening to Dead Leaves. It just ticked every box for me. I'm a big fan of coming of age stories (the first 'adult' horror book i ever read was Stephen King's IT, which is one of the best examples ever written). I'm also absolutely fascinated by the Video Nasties scandal in the UK in the 1980s (which I was too young to live through, but am old enough to remember it's aftermath). The mixing of both here results in a book that is in no way horror, but is a heartfelt love letter to the genre.
A small group of friends growing up in the East Midlands in 1980s UK are obsessed with horror movies. At the time, home media was burgeoning and VHS tapes were an expensive luxury. When police begin raiding local stores to seize copies of films deemed indecent and offensive, the trio hatch a plan to obtain a copy of one of the most infamous video nasties of them all...
The Evil Dead
This was something of a formative film for me as well and remains one of my favourites, so i was very emotionally connected to these boys from the start. I don't want to spoil any of the story itself, but horror fan or not, the realisations and experiences these boys go through over the course of the book are universally relatable and leave you with a great deal to think about after you've finished listening.
I can't recommend this more highly, just on the strength of the book itself. The narration is generally pretty good, although more successful with the voices of the kids than the adults. Regardless, you'll get lost in the story, because it is an absolutely captivating one.
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