I read this novel in the Richard Laymon collection 2.
The novel was first published in Great Britain in 1982.
The book is really a short novel compared to some of Laymons other classics just 200 pages long but if you get it in the 2 book edition it also includes The woods are Dark and a selection of five short stories.

The story is set around a cinema where a couple of freaks who own the cinema have decided they will kill people in a big old desserted house and show the movies as shorts before the main film is shown.
So no one recognises their victims they dubb over the voices, this is a great idea unless the person that is viewing the film is deaf and can actualy work out what the victims are really saying by lip reading.
Plenty of gore and gruesome bits for all you horror fans.
And this book has a great ending, I have found with some of his books that the endings can be dissapointing.

I must admit that one of the chapters did make me feel quite sick and I had to put the book down for a while.
For all you Laymon fans I would say in my opinion the novel is a fair to middling story from the horror master.
If you havnt read any Laymon and like movies such as Saw and Hostel then you will probably enjoy his works.
I am rationing myself as he is no longer alive so would hate to get to the point that I have no more of his books left to read.