Day 30- Ru Versus Book of Blood
Year: 2009
Director: John Harrison
Writer: John Harrison, Darin Silverman and Clive Barker
Starring: Jonas Armstrong, Sophie Ward and Clive Russell
Book of Blood made in 2009, is about a paranormal investigator and a medium investigating a haunted house. What they don’t know that this isn’t a normal haunted house but a meeting point for the dead, and they’ve entered dangerous territory.
Like always I don’t do very much homework on my films until after I’ve seen them. Well, I knew Clive Barker was attached to this film, so I assumed he wrote and directed this one. I was very wrong, this is only a snippet of one of his short stories. The entire film I was so confused because this wasn’t his kind of style of filming. It wasn’t magical, it was a simple haunted house story. After watching the film and seeing the credits I finally figured out that this wasn’t a true Clive Barker film.
The special effects and makeup in this film was pretty well done, not on the level I was expecting, but nonetheless it was still good. There really wasn’t much on the makeup side, just a cut here and there, most of it was digital, and if you’ve been reading my blog you know my thoughts on CGI in horror films. Like I said earlier I was expecting this to be a Clive Barker film so I was expecting great special effects makeup and just over all creepy effects, but I wasn’t too disappointed in what I saw.
Book of Blood was a great story, but I felt like it should have been kept as a short story and perhaps a short film. The movie was dragged on longer than it needed to be. The acting sometimes seemed a little off but every movie has that flaw from time to time. If you are looking for a new haunted house film to watch and are willing to deal with the slow paced story, then Book of Blood is a film for you. I give Book of Blood 2.5 stars out of 5.
Thanks again for reading guys. Tell me what you thought about the movie!
~Tune in tomorrow for my final review for 31 Days of Halloween, Madhouse! ~