They say it\'s hard getting into the movies...try getting out! Fresh from the cutting room floor, The Silver Scream exposes the bloodiest behind-the-scenes details of the most gruesome, shocking, true-crime tragedy of our time.
Understand why this rock n\' roll heartthrob chose to stop so many human hearts..
Learn how the box office created so many oblong boxes.
Merkin courageously slashes open the ghoulish mind and tortured nightmares of Spencer himself, probing deeply, with razor-sharp precision.
The Silver Scream reconstructs, with unflinching detail, how fiction became fact, art imitated death, and the most horrific movie murders by the likes of Jason, Leatherface, Freddy, Michael, and the rest became real.
Ian Black.
Bayonet Award-winning television reporter Roy Merkin is the only storyteller in possession of the journals scrawled by disgraced psychotherapist Dr.
Part autopsy, part grisly director\'s cut, this is the only book with a comprehensive exploration inside the mind of America\'s notorious, celluloid-obsessed, rock star turned cinema-copycat murderer, Spencer Charnas.
They say it\'s hard getting into the movies...try getting out! Fresh from the cutting room floor, The Silver Scream exposes the bloodiest behind-the-scenes details of the most gruesome, shocking, true-crime tragedy of our time