Book of Blood (2008)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

John Harrison

Writers (WGA):

John Harrison (screenplay) &
Darin Silverman (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

8 May 2009 (Turkey)

Genre:

Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

A paranormal expert discovers a house that is at the intersection of so-called "highways" transporting souls in the afterlife. |

Plot Keywords:

Intersection | Jukebox | Female Rear Nudity | Rain | Clairvoyant

Cast

Jonas Armstrong	...	Simon McNeal
Sophie Ward	...	Mary Florescu
Clive Russell	...	Wyburd
Paul Blair	...	Reg Fuller
Romana Abercromby	...	Janie
Simon Bamford	...	Derek
James Watson	...	Jimmy
Doug Bradley	...	Tollington
Gowan Calder	...	Janie's Mother
Graham Colquhoun	...	Simon's Father
Marcus McLeod	...	Janie's Father
James McAnerney	...	Doctor Nigel Blake
Joy McBrinn	...	Waitress
Charlie McFadden	...	Joanne
Jack North	...	Simon (age 11)

Also Known As:

Clive Barker's Book of Blood (Philippines: English title) (UK) (complete title)

MPAA:

Rated R for bloody violence, sexuality/nudity and language.

Runtime:

Germany:96 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:R (certificate #45437) | Netherlands:16 | Philippines:R-13 (MTRCB) | UK:18

Filming Locations:

Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Company:

Matador Pictures

Quotes:

[first lines]
Mary Florescu: The dead have highways, running through the wasteland behind our lives, bearing an endless traffic of departed souls. They can be heard in the broken places of our world, through cracks made out of cruelty, violence, and depravity. They have sign posts, these highways, and crossroads and intersections. And it is at these intersections where the dead mingle, and sometimes spill over into our world.

Soundtrack:

Unchain My Heart

Good, low-budget film

Had to watch a crappy, low-quality 4:3 Region 4 DVD, can't wait for widescreen Blu-Ray. But, that's okay since it's not available in the U.S. yet, that's what we have to live with!!! I'll say this, it's no Hellraiser, but it's better than Midnight Meat Train. It looks like Clive Barker is so desperate to keep these films in production that he's not holding out for cutting-edge directors and imaginative adaptations.

The film, at parts looks like a made-for-TV film, at other times it's very cinematic. my hope is that once it's digitally mastered for wide-release the color balance and contrast will be cleaned up.

For the most part the story is strait forward, at the intersection of hell, the dead scribe their stories on a young man with ESP, the rich and demented want his skin. That's that. It's the book-end story for the collection "Books Of Blood" and as that it works, as a stand-alone it's a little thin. Still, overall I was never board and enjoyed the film. As a little, low-budget gore machine,it's a good-nights fun.