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Books
of Blood on Wiki
This
is the frame story for
the entire Books of Blood series. A psychic researcher, Mary Florescu,
has employed a quack medium named Simon McNeal to investigate a haunted
house. Alone in an upstairs room, McNeal at first fakes visions, but
then the ghosts really do come for him. They attack him and carve words
in his flesh, and these words, claims the narrator, form the rest of
the stories, stories written on a literal, living Book of Blood.On Jerusalem Street (a
postscript)
Only
included in some UK editions of the Books of Blood, "On Jerusalem
Street" is a quick summation of the The Book of Blood from Volume One
told as a sort of wrap-around tale.
Movies
Matador Pictures and Midnight Picture
Show are teaming to bring horror author Clive Barker's Books of Blood
series to the big screen, Variety reported. Sophie Ward (Heartbeat) and
Jonas Armstrong (Robin Hood) will star in the first installment of what
producers hope will become a film franchise. John Harrison (Tales From
the Darkside: The Movie) will direct from a screenplay he co-wrote with
Darin Silverman. The story centers on a paranormal expert who, while
investigating a gruesome slaying, finds a house that is at the
intersection of "highways" transporting souls to the afterlife. Barker
is producing alongside Jorge Saralegui, Joe Daley, Nigel Thomas, Lauri
Apelian and Micky Macpherson.
Cast
& Crew
Director
John
Harrison
Screenplay
John
Harrison
Cast
Jonas
Armstrong
Sophie
Ward
Paul
Blair
Cinematography
Philip
Robertson
Producers
Clive
Barker
Jorge
Saralegui
Nigel
Thomas
Micky
MacPherson
Lauri
Apelian
Executive
Producers
Joe
Daley
Anthony
Diblasi
Carole
Sheridan
Karl
Richards
Peter
Bevan
Richard
Reiner
International
Sales
Essential
Entertainment
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Synopsis
The story tells of a university lecturer who visits a supposedly
haunted house with a young man who claims to have psychic powers. He
fakes messages from the dead on the walls of the building.
Unknown
to him however, the
house is "a busy intersection on the highway of the damned". The dead
take exception to his behaviour, and decide to tell their own stories
and exact a terrible revenge for his misrepresentations .
Jonas
will play Simon McNeal,
a medium hired to investigate a haunted house.
Essential
Entertainment presents a Matador Pictures and Plum Films production
with Cinema One in association with Regent Capital, Newbridge Film
Capital LLC, Scottish Screen, E-Motion and Motion Investment Group. A
Midnight Picture Show.
Press
Barker
Brings Blood to Big
Screen
Clive Barker,
everyone’s favorite gothic gay ghoul, is back with more tales
of terror. The film version of one of his stories – with the
gruesome (or pornographically suggestive) title Midnight Meat Train
– is coming soon a theater near you. And in the works is a
series of films based on Barker’s Books of Blood story
collections. The first film will be adapted from the initial story of
book one, which centers on a paranormal investigator who, while looking
for clues to a murder, finds instead the intersection of various paths
that souls take in the afterlife. The film will star Sophie Ward (Young
Sherlock Holmes) and Jonas Armstrong (the U.K. TV series Robin Hood).
With a built-in cult fan base for the popular ‘80s
collections, expect a franchise to grow in this graveyard.
Rue Morgue
With thanks to LadyJayma.
"It was very
important that we had two performers who were fearless, in
terms of not being afraid of exposing their feelings or their... skins.
And we were blessed, let me tell you. We have two, firstly, exquisitely beautiful
people, and two people who have been absolutely fearless in terms of
what they've presented to the camera. I doubt that there is a
sexier
horror movie out there"
And
this is them referring to the book:
"The Book of Blood embraced a then controversial subject, that of an older woman's desire
for a young man. It's something that blinds her to the
fact that he's a fraud, leading them both to pay the ultimate price."
[What?? I'm saying
nothing! LOL]
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