{"product_id":"soft-focus-sharp-teeth-a-hollywood-horror-noir-thriller-9798197027399","title":"Soft Focus, Sharp Teeth: A Hollywood Horror-Noir Thriller","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Nora Young\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Thrillers - Psychological\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1986 Los Angeles. Abbey Rhodes knows horror movies better than she knows how to sleep.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy day, she is a film student fighting to be taken seriously in a world of men who call their cruelty art. By night, she works behind the counter at After Midnight Video, a dying Hollywood rental store with a locked private cabinet full of bootlegs, banned imports, and tapes that do not officially exist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Julian Ashcroft walks into the horror aisle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElegant, dangerous, and far too interested in what Abbey sees, Julian is a collector of rare films and worse things. When an unlabeled cassette appears in the return bin, Abbey finds twenty-three seconds of footage: a hallway, a woman's laugh, and one word on the screen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHURSDAY.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tape leads Abbey to Lena Hart, a missing actress whose face is still taped to payphones across Hollywood. It also leads to a private circle of powerful men who turn women into footage, evidence into property, and silence into art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Abbey follows the trail from video-store shelves to screening rooms, pool houses, police files, and burning theaters, she is forced to ask whether Julian is helping her expose the truth-or using her curiosity to finish a story he was too guilty to end himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome films want an audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome evidence wants witnesses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd some monsters only become visible when the camera keeps rolling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSoft Focus, Sharp Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e is a VHS-era psychological thriller with dark romantic obsession, horror-noir atmosphere, corrupt-police conspiracy, and a heroine determined to take back the frame.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48215475847319,"sku":"9798197027399","price":1293.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798197027399.webp?v=1788733430","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/soft-focus-sharp-teeth-a-hollywood-horror-noir-thriller-9798197027399","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}