She winds up at a bed and breakfast run by a seemingly happy couple. “… messing with spirits can only lead to one dreadful conclusion.”
Compound that with her misophonia (an extreme sensitivity to sound, wherein, for example, people quietly chewing is too loud), and her parents send Jenna to “the farm.” Upon returning home, her mom is always frustrated, so Jenna runs away. See, Jenna’s friend committed suicide not too long ago, which caused her to have a mental breakdown. But, more on that later.įor all intent and purposes, Books Of Blood actually begins with Jenna (Britt Robertson) confiding in her mom that she has stopped taking her meds.
And for the longest time, this is a disconnected prologue, though the movie finally remembers these characters exist over an hour in. The anthology starts out with two gangsters (maybe?) in a desperate search for the titular book. As such, the movie comes across as a disjointed, dull mess, and horror fans would be better served by revisiting the 2009 adaptation Book Of Blood (note the singular book, versus the new one’s plurality). This adaptation of Clive Barker’s 1985 short story collection, written by director Brannon Braga and Adam Simon, is so desperate to imitate the likes of Hush or The Haunting Of Hill House that it utterly forgets to carve out its own identity. "Clive Barker assaults our senses and our psyche, seeking not so much to tingle our spine as to snap it altogether.NEW TO HULU! Looking through the end credits of Hulu’s Books Of Blood, it was quite surprising to discover that horror maestro Mike Flanagan had nothing to do with it. He creates a world where our biggest fears appear to be our own dreams."- Boston Herald "Mixing elements of horror, science fiction and surrealist literature, Barker's work reads like a cross between Stephen King and South American novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. "Barker's eye is unblinking he drags out our terrors from the shadows and forces us to look upon them and despair or laugh with relief."- The Washington Post "Barker's dark, powerful imagination-and his skill in pacing to keep stories surprising-make the horror grisly and effective."- People Some of the stories were so creepily awful that I literally could not read them alone others go up and over the edge and into gruesome territory.He's an original."-Stephen King "He scares even me.What Barker does in the Books of Blood makes the rest of us look like we've been asleep for the last ten years.
"Our most accomplished purveyor of horror fiction."- The New York Times Book Review
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