My Heart Is a Chainsaw

Jade observes recent happenings in her rapidly gentrifying little rural lake town that not even her extensive knowledge of horror flicks could have prepared her for.

An irate, half-Indian outcast, Jade Daniels has a violent father, a missing mother, and a community that doesn't want anything to do with her. She lives in a world where the only thing keeping her safe is horror films, particularly the ones where a masked assassin seeks vengeance on those who have wronged them. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. However, as blood really begins to seep into Indian Lake's waters, she draws us into her delirious, encyclopaedic vision of blood and disguised killers and precisely foretells the course of events.

However, even as Jade draws us into her gloomy fever dream, an unexpected and personal image shows itself. a portrayal of the terrified and traumatised little child hiding behind Jason Voorhees' mask: she is frightened, certainly, but she is also a crying child who needs a family so badly. a young woman whose emotions are out of control.

My Heart Is a Chainsaw is her story, her homage to horror and revenge and triumph.