Chris Thompson's Reviews > Plunge

When the best part of a horror novel is running dildo jokes, you know that there’s some trouble. Not that there is anything wrong with the dildo jokes - they are quite funny - but the rest of the comic is just not as remarkable. The setup, an emergency beacon suddenly lights from a ship lost in the ‘80s, is a lot of fun. There are also some interesting moments throughout, a few laugh out loud moments of dialogue, and one compelling character, Lacome, because he has at least some depth.

Outside of that, this was a rather more dull story than it should have been. I never quite felt any terror, and that comes from Hill’s mistake of introducing the monster too early (the apple doesn’t fall far in the Stephen King family tree in its obsession with creepy crawly alien bugs). Besides being funny, the monster wasn’t very scary. Worse, it was dull. Also dull are most of the characters. The ending, too, was not so great. A shame the story couldn’t be more daring.