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Britt Robertson as Jenna – A hypersensitive girl who suffers from misophonia – an abhorrence of sound.

She loses her 7-year-old son to leukemia and then meets Simon, who becomes her lover and convinces her that he speaks for her dead child.

Anna Friel as Mary – A brilliant, beautiful psychologist who has gained fame as a skeptic that debunks all theories or beliefs that are not solely scientifically based.

Per Clive Barker’s website, here are the actors and their character descriptions: It was then released on Hulu the next day, on October 7. When is the Books of Blood release date?īooks of Blood premiered at the Screamfest film festival on October 6, 2020. It’s pretty gruesome, but each vignette thereafter tells one of these stories.

During the investigation, Simon is attacked by a bunch of ghosts who carve the stories of their deaths into his flesh. The movie will follow three of these stories and, per the official synopsis, will take the audience “on a journey into the uncharted and forbidden territory through three uncanny tales tangled in space and time.”įrom what we know from the books, the central story that connects the rest involves Mary, a psychic researcher who hires Simon, a medium, to assist in investigating a haunted house. The anthology series consists of six volumes, each filled with four or five short stories. It’s ridiculous that it’s taken me this long to get into Barker, but I’m seeing my glass as half full - there can’t be many horror fans at my age who can jump in fresh to his oeuvre.Īs they say, it’s never as good as the first time.She's in for a rude awakening. Good as the film Candyman is, it doesn’t quite manage that. It was as if he had stepped off the page into my reality, and I got a tremor in my gut that is the absolute holy grail of any horror fan.

It was as if Candyman was transcending his fictional status by owning it as his chief characteristic. To live in people’s dreams to be whispered at street-corners but not have to be. When I got to that famous line in The Forbidden. They were also much more frightening than I expected. So I opened my first ever Clive Barker book.Ĭlear, cool and lyrical, with riveting and stunningly relevant plots, they could have been written yesterday, or even in ten years time. I felt I should at least read The Hellbound Heart and The Forbidden, on which they are based respectively. Then I was preparing for my YouTube show Title Fright 10: Curious Cruelty, which pits Hellraiser against Candyman. I denied myself a lot of wonderful horror writing for years because of this and I’m only now catching up.įirst came Shirley Jackson and The Haunting of Hill House, which I've blogged about here. I’ve been saying for a while that if loving horror is an orientation, I’ve only just come out of the closet.