The opening scene of the Clive Barker film Book Of Blood (out this week on DVD and Blu-ray from Lightning) packs a punch as a young woman is assaulted by unseen forces, climaxing with a rather gruesome effect in which her face is torn away. We are then introduced to Simon McNeal (Jonas Armstrong), a young college student and medium whose body has been ravaged and become a literal book of blood.
The story is thus set in motion as Simon recalls the events that led him to his current predicament. As the flashback begins, the focus shifts to paranormal investigator and college professor Mary Florescu (Sophie Ward), who’s haunted by an incident that occurred during her childhood. Mary’s path crosses with that of Simon, who suffers from his own childhood demons. She enlists his aide and, with the help of paranormal technician Reg Fuller (Paul Blair), they...
The story is thus set in motion as Simon recalls the events that led him to his current predicament. As the flashback begins, the focus shifts to paranormal investigator and college professor Mary Florescu (Sophie Ward), who’s haunted by an incident that occurred during her childhood. Mary’s path crosses with that of Simon, who suffers from his own childhood demons. She enlists his aide and, with the help of paranormal technician Reg Fuller (Paul Blair), they...
- 9/22/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Glen Baisley)
- Fangoria
The folks at After Dark Films gave Fango the exclusive first look at the poster for the Clive Barker movie Dread that they’ve come up with to promote its place in Horrorfest 4, which runs January 29-February 4 of next year. Check out the cool new one-sheet below!
Written and directed by Anthony Diblasi from Barker’s Books Of Blood short story of the same title, Dread stars Jackson Rathbone from the Twilight movies, Hanne Steen, Laura Donnelly, Jonathan Readwin and Shaun Evans in the story of college students caught up in experiments with fear that get scarier than anyone expected. If you’re in the Burbank, CA area, you can pick up one of these posters today at horror bookstore Dark Delicacies (4213 West Burbank), where Diblasi will be signing and giving them away. Joining him will be writer/director John Harrison and co-scripter Darin Silverman, autographing DVDs and Blu-rays of another new Barker flick,...
Written and directed by Anthony Diblasi from Barker’s Books Of Blood short story of the same title, Dread stars Jackson Rathbone from the Twilight movies, Hanne Steen, Laura Donnelly, Jonathan Readwin and Shaun Evans in the story of college students caught up in experiments with fear that get scarier than anyone expected. If you’re in the Burbank, CA area, you can pick up one of these posters today at horror bookstore Dark Delicacies (4213 West Burbank), where Diblasi will be signing and giving them away. Joining him will be writer/director John Harrison and co-scripter Darin Silverman, autographing DVDs and Blu-rays of another new Barker flick,...
- 9/22/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
Dark Delicacies (4213 W. Burbank) in Burbank, California is celebrating two cinematic works based on three of Clive Barker's tales tomorrow with a few special guests. Book of Blood director John Harrison and co-writer Darin Silverman will be signing DVD and Blu-Ray copies of the film which is based on Barker's "Book of Blood" and "On Jerusalem Street." Both are found in the author's "Books of Blood" collection. Composer Guy Farley is signing copies of his soundtrack. Writer-director Anthony Diblasi (pictured) will be in attendance as well. He's signing mini-posters for the forthcoming release Dread . The film was picked up by After Dark Films for release on January 29, 2010 and this will be the first time you get to see the official one-sheet....
- 9/21/2009
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Fango just got sent a new hi-res clip from Book Of Blood, the Clive Barker fright feature (based on the author’s short stories “The Book of Blood” and “On Jerusalem Street”) that hits DVD and Blu-ray via Lightning Home Entertainment September 22. Check out the video below.
Directed by John Harrison from a script he wrote with Darin Silverman, Book Of Blood follows a phony medium (Jonas Anderson), a psychic researcher (Sophie Ward) and others into a genuinely haunted house, where the resident ghosts wind up using human skin as their etching pad. See Fango #287, on sale in September, for an exclusive set-visit report on the movie.
Directed by John Harrison from a script he wrote with Darin Silverman, Book Of Blood follows a phony medium (Jonas Anderson), a psychic researcher (Sophie Ward) and others into a genuinely haunted house, where the resident ghosts wind up using human skin as their etching pad. See Fango #287, on sale in September, for an exclusive set-visit report on the movie.
- 8/25/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
A new trailer for Clive Barker’s Book of Blood is now online. The film, directed by John Harrison, is based on Barker’s short stories "On Jerusalem Street" and "The Book of Blood" and arrives on DVD and Blu-Ray in September. Harrison penned the screenplay with Darin Silverman. In the film, a paranormal expert discovers a house that is at the intersection of so-called "highways" transporting souls in the afterlife. It stars Jonas Armstrong, Sophie Ward, Doug Bradley, Simon Bamford and Paul Blair.
- 7/21/2009
- by James Cook
- TheMovingPicture.net
Director Jon Harrison and co-writer Darin Silverman have extracted from Clive Barker's mammoth horror collection "Books of Blood" two tales - "The Book of Blood" and "On Jerusalem Street" - for Book of Blood . Lightning Media picked up the rights to this adaptation - starring Jonas Armstrong, Sophie Ward, Doug Bradley, Simon Bamford and Paul Blair - and is releasing it on DVD and Blu-Ray September 22. Here's the red band trailer... The DVD streets with a making-of featurette.
- 7/8/2009
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Lightning Media gave Fango the first look at cover art for its impending DVD release of the Clive Barker feature Book Of Blood, as well as the content details; check ’em out below. Directed by John Harrison from a script he wrote with Darin Silverman (based on Barker’s short stories “The Book of Blood” and “On Jerusalem Street”), the film was initially intended for limited theatrical release by Lightning late this year before being put on the straight-to-disc route.
Lightning’s DVD, which streets September 29, will present the movie in 16x9-enhanced 1.78 widescreen with 5.1 Surround sound, accompanied by a making-of featurette running approximately 20 minutes. There will also be a Blu-ray release the same day with the same specs. Jonas Armstrong stars in Book Of Blood as a medium who is brought by a parapsychologist (Sophie Ward) to an allegedly haunted house. At first he fakes sightings of the spirits,...
Lightning’s DVD, which streets September 29, will present the movie in 16x9-enhanced 1.78 widescreen with 5.1 Surround sound, accompanied by a making-of featurette running approximately 20 minutes. There will also be a Blu-ray release the same day with the same specs. Jonas Armstrong stars in Book Of Blood as a medium who is brought by a parapsychologist (Sophie Ward) to an allegedly haunted house. At first he fakes sightings of the spirits,...
- 6/11/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
This "sales trailer" for the Clive Barker "Book of Blood" film being repped by Essential Entertainment at the American Film Market has emerged online. Sophie Ward stars as a paranormal researcher whose investigations lead her to a college student who apparently channelsmessages from the dead. Their sexual relationship bridges the living and dead in this movie directed by John Harrison and co-written with Darin Silverman. . . . .
- 11/27/2008
- ESplatter.com
British horror master Clive Barker is taking his tales of terror to the big screen again.
Matador Pictures and Barker's Midnight Picture Show shingle are teaming to adapt what is planned to be the first in a series of films based on the horror author/filmmaker's fiction collection Books of Blood.
John Harrison (Tales From the Darkside: The Movie) will direct from a script written by Harrison and Darin Silverman. Sophie Ward (Young Sherlock Holmes) and Jonas Armstrong (the U.K.'s TV series Robin Hood) are set to star.
The Blood series consisted of six collections of horror stories published from 1984-85. The books made Barker an overnight literary sensation.
Blood will adapt the first story from Book 1, which centers on a paranormal expert who, while investigating a gruesome slaying, finds a house that is at the intersection of "highways" transporting the souls in the afterlife.
Barker, whose written works have inspired such film franchises as Hellraiser and Candyman, will produce with Midnight Picture Show's Jorge Saralegui and Joe Daley.
Matador Pictures and Barker's Midnight Picture Show shingle are teaming to adapt what is planned to be the first in a series of films based on the horror author/filmmaker's fiction collection Books of Blood.
John Harrison (Tales From the Darkside: The Movie) will direct from a script written by Harrison and Darin Silverman. Sophie Ward (Young Sherlock Holmes) and Jonas Armstrong (the U.K.'s TV series Robin Hood) are set to star.
The Blood series consisted of six collections of horror stories published from 1984-85. The books made Barker an overnight literary sensation.
Blood will adapt the first story from Book 1, which centers on a paranormal expert who, while investigating a gruesome slaying, finds a house that is at the intersection of "highways" transporting the souls in the afterlife.
Barker, whose written works have inspired such film franchises as Hellraiser and Candyman, will produce with Midnight Picture Show's Jorge Saralegui and Joe Daley.
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