CHARLES BURNS FINAL CUT HC

As a child, Brian and his friend Jimmy would make sci-fi films in their yards, convincing their friends to star as victims of grisly murders, smearing lipstick on the \'bodies\' to simulate blood. Now a talented artist and aspiring filmmaker, Brian, along with Jimmy, Jimmy\'s friend Tina, and Laurie-his reluctant muse-sets off to a remote cabin in the woods with an old 8 millimeter camera to make a true sci-fi horror movie, an homage to Brian\'s favorite movie: Invasion of the Body Snatchers. But as Brian\'s affections for Laurie go seemingly unreciprocated, Brian writes and draws himself into a fantasy where she is the girl of his dreams, his damsel in distress, and his savior wrapped into one. Rife with references to classic sci-fi and horror movies and filled with panels of stunning depictions of nature, film and the surreal, Burns blurs the line between Brian\'s dreams and reality, imagination and perception. A master of the form at his finest, Final Cut is an astonishing look at w