Assault on Sunrise
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- 10,99 €
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- 10,99 €
Publisher Description
In a dystopian near-future, a vengeful Hollywood mogul unleashes deadly mechanical wasps on a small town in a twisted "live-action" film.
Less than a century from now, America has been brought to its knees by pollution, economic disaster, and the rapacious greed of the corporate oligarchy. L.A. has become the worst of these urban nightmares. Curtis, Japh, and Jool, film extras who survived a deadly "live-action" shoot, have escaped to the peaceful town of Sunrise, California. But their survival cost Panoply Studios millions, and CEO Val Margolian wants revenge.
After several police are found dead in Sunrise, Margolian subjects the entire town to his invidious plan. He has created toxic, murderous wasp-like mechanical creatures to set upon the people, while his film crew captures the carnage in what promises to be the bloodiest "live-action" film yet. With their haven besieged, the former extras and their fellow townspeople must defeat the creatures and take back their freedom. Assault on Sunrise is a saga of courage and sacrifice in a world gone mad.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Shea follows 2010's The Extra with another lowbrow thriller set in a world where video studios can get away with anything. People trapped in the vast slums are willing to risk death to escape, and video directors can shoot live carnage in which hundreds of extras are really killed by mechanical monsters. Panoply Studio's megalomaniac CEO, Val Margolian, unleashes his twisted imagination on the mountain town of Sunrise, home of former extras who escaped his earlier vid bloodbaths. The townspeople just want to be left alone, but Margolian plans to create a nihilistic masterpiece out of their destruction. He has scripted a two-day apocalypse in which the town is overwhelmed by giant wasps and mantids, all lovingly recorded from antigravity rafts. The resourceful Sunrisers have other plans, however. Shea keeps the action moving briskly, but there's something disingenuous about using outrageous ultraviolence to criticize our fascination with outrageous ultraviolence.
