“This story would make a really cool movie, I could see and hear everything happening in my head as I read it.
13-year old Conor is visited at night by a monstrous incarnation of the Green Man, who takes the form of a huge old Yew Tree. The monster insists on telling him three stories of crime and punishment that never end quite how Conor expects. In return, the monster demands that Conor tell him a story... a true story ... his true story. Facing the truth is scarier to Conor than facing the monster. His mother has cancer, and there is something else that he's hiding: a nightmare filled with someone else's screams.
The mix of folklore with modern life is a bit like Pan's Labyrinth meets early M. Night Shayamalan, when he still made decent movies like "The Sixth Sense" and "Unbreakable."”
Donna Block wrote this review Tuesday, August 16, 2011.
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