The Red Mohawk by Anonymous ★★★★★

"The whole place is a tribute to movie clichés from the eighties. They’ve got a Nakatomi Towers, a Rocky Balboa statue, a McDowell’s restaurant, you name it."

"And everything and everyone went batshit crazy. The diner erupted like everyone in it had been thrown from a rollercoaster." 

This is the best time I have ever had reading horror and it will make the greatest masked horror movie since Scream! It was so funny, brutal, action packed, and steeped in the history of its genre. Small town, dark secret, masked killer, large meat cleaver - enjoy. I loved all the references to 80s/90s movies: from Dirty Dancing to Primal Fear to Die Hard this book was speaking my language. It has a simple vengeance plot that takes you for a ride. 

Side note: What happened to simple vengeance? Payback doesn't have to be Oceans Eleven or The Count of Monte Cristo - Wrath of Khan was great.

I want Bruce Willis to play Jack Munson, I want a date with Joey Conrad (I assure you, I've made worse choices), and I want sequels!!! I leave you with this final quote: 

"I’m not a cop tonight. This time it’s personal.’   
‘Jeezus! Could you be any more of a cliché?’  
‘Yes I could. I’ve always followed the rules, done everything by the book. Well not any more. From now on, I’m a cop living life on the edge. If the chief has to call me into his office to chew me out in the morning, well that’s fine. I play by my own rules from now on.’  
‘You’ve been drinking haven’t you?’   
‘All afternoon.’  
‘And watching Lethal Weapon again by the sounds of it.’  

‘Bits of it. And Die Hard."