CJ's Reviews > Horror Movie

Another solid entry by Paul Tremblay. Another creepy book with an absolutely wild ending. I’m still trying to figure out exactly what that ending means, which is exactly what I love about Paul Tremblay. He’s not in it to just creep you out, he wants to make his readers think about his stories.

And trust me, I was creeped out. This book hits all of those notes without being overly graphic or gory. It’s the psychological scares and mysterious nature of The Thin Kid that keeps building and building.

There are at least three timelines here, but you could possibly count up to five of them. So it can be a challenge to follow at times, but I found that once you get about 20% in, they all become fairly easy to track.

I loved the similarities between this and A Head Full of Ghosts. Between the possession documentary and the cursed film set, there’s something about the creation of film, the lengths people go through for money/art, that allows Tremblay to speak to what kind of real horrors can drive these people insane outside of any kind of supernatural entity.