SPOILER ALERT: I liked the three guys from 'Joisey.' They weren't exactly nice or anything, but they were well-drawn, and acted with perfect logic in accord with their own agendas and characters. I also really appreciated how - unlike most thrillers - it avoided being formulaic. Very inventive plot, with no dei ex machina and only a few elements that stretch credulity. But it turns into anything but - and then it turns again, and again. It starts out almost like a Hardy Boys novel, with four young people and a college professor equipping themselves with flashlights, hardhats, etc., to go exploring inside an abandoned and dilapidated once-grand hotel in Asbury Park. Great plot twists wish there'd been more history

Danger, terror, and death await the creepers in a place ravaged by time and redolent of evil. And after the group enters the rat-infested tunnel leading to the hotel, it becomes clear that he will get much more than he bargained for. On this evening, they are joined by a reporter who wants to profile them - anonymously, as this is highly illegal activity - for a New York Times article.įrank Balenger, a sandy-haired, broad-shouldered reporter with a decided air of mystery about him, isn't looking for just a story, however. The five people are 'creepers', the slang term for urban explorers: city archeologists with a passion for investigating abandoned buildings and their dying secrets. Built in the glory days of Asbury Park by a reclusive millionaire, the magnificent structure - which foreshadowed the beauties of art deco architecture - is now boarded up and marked for demolition. On a cold October night, five people gather in a run-down motel on the Jersey shore and begin preparations to break into the Paragon Hotel.

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