Book Of Blood (2008)

The unstoppable force that is Clive Barker returns again with an amalgam of two stories from his collection, Books Of Blood.

Professor of the paranormal, Mary Florescu, teams up with a medium, Simon McNeal, and heads to the scene of a bloody killing. What follows is a typical haunted house story as science versus things that go bump in the night. Unfortunately there is not enough science or bumping and it is all quite boring until the dead appear (and, even then, the interest generated is low and brief, but not in a good way like a Brazilian bikini). The house is an intersection between the highways of the dead and living, and the dead need a canvas to tell their stories. A human canvas. What happens to McNeal is more interesting than what happens in the house, but that doesn’t mean it is very interesting.

Barker produces Book Of Blood and his touch always helps to bring a bit more darkness and dirty sex to proceedings, but not enough to save the movie from dullness. Barker’s Hellraiser is a great example of spooky proceedings in a house. Book Of Blood is not.