It’s a scene that reads, to an adult, like an obvious act of grooming, marked by cajoling promises and veiled threats, and punctuated by that ice-cold phrase: it’ll be our little secret. Whatever is using Bad Cat’s form becomes more threatening, telling Christopher that he’s pretty fucking disappointed, warning the boy that if he doesn’t stop lying, something bad will happen to his beloved mother, Kate. Inexplicably, Bad Cat starts to address Christopher from the television, plugging him for information about the context of this morbid discovery.
He’s also been venturing secretly into the nearby woods, at the behest of a not-so-imaginary friend who he thinks of as “the nice man”, where he and his friends have discovered the twisted skeleton of another young boy who went missing decades ago. Christopher is a megafan – toys, clothes, lunchbox, sleeping bag, everything. Now the director/producer/scriptwriter is back with an epic, kid-centric horror.Įarly on in Stephen Chbosky’s frustrating new horror novel, Imaginary Friend, its seven-year-old protagonist Christopher is sitting down to watch his favourite cartoon, Bad Cat. Twenty years ago Stephen Chbosky had a massive hit with coming-of-age novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
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