Trent wrote:
Slayground could have made a terrific movie, as a standalone or part of a
series. Unfortunately, it got turned into a strange variant of the slasher
film (they were hot at the time).
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It's a lousy movie, but I don't see much of the slasher element in it.
Neither is there any suspense or anything else that makes the book work. In
fact, Parker has been replaced by a character named Stone who bears no
relationship to him. No one has mentioned that Westlake uses the same,
slightly modified opening chapter for both SLAYGROUND and the Grofield
novel THE BLACKBIRD. When their getaway car crashes after a robbery, Parker
hides out in the deserted amusement park and Grofield winds up in a hospital
with members of a secret branch of the government pressuring him to work for
them. If someone had filmed them back to back, they could have used the same
opening sequence.
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