Book of Blood

I think it's hard to make Clive's books into movies. His work is truly unsettling and terrifying at times... but movies... they are just bad except for the new rendition of 'Hellraiser'

Bookended by classic Barker style horror, the bulk of this one spends too much time content to be your average run-of-the-mill, and mediocre paranormal investigation. The world does not have enough Barker adaptations, so I feel wronged to see it not done properly.

Too slow, the first erotic horror film i have seen.

Cheap and dull, another bad Barker adaptation.

Adapted from a (pretty good, actually) story that lasted less than ten pages and really only existed to set up an anthology; the movie is basically the same thing, stretched to transparency. All in all, an underwhelming experience. The ending was also a little more literal than it needed to be. A perennial favorite of the Chiller channel programmers. Not because it's good, but because it's cheap and has a name attached.

As with most Barker adaptions the film doesn't do justice to the source material. What starts as an intriguing premise quickly falls into the dull cliches of the haunted house sub-genre. The majority of the film is rendered pointless by the opening scene and ending and as such feels a very empty experience. Sophie Ward also gives the worst female horror performance I've seen in years.

Bad Movie

60.500

Far from Clive Barkers best but a solid experience.

epic fail

Clive Barker is fixed with skin mutilation and sex. If the movie worked on some level, the main story sucked very deep. The consept was interesting, but the conclusion spoiled every high hopes. Lots of usual and lame twists.

Interesting concept, but the pacing seemed off to me