Clive Barker's Books of Blood: The Movie

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January 31, 2008


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' Nigel Thomas and Lauri Apelian and Micky Macpherson of Edinburgh-based Plum Films also are producing.

Los Angeles-based Essential Entertainment is handling worldwide sales and will debut the project next week's European Film Market in Berlin.

Newbridge Entertainment Capital, Scottish Screen and Entertainment Motion Pictures are financing the film.

Barker is in development on a new "Hellraiser" movie, while "Midnight Meat Train," which is based on his short story, is due in the spring from Lionsgate.

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Matador Pictures has already released two insane stills from John Harrison's Book of Blood, along with early teaser art.

Based on the wraparound story penned by Clive Barker in the author's "Books of Blood" collection, a psychic researcher, Mary Florescu, has employs medium Simon McNeal to investigate a haunted house. McNeal, at first, begins to fake his visions, but then real ghosts present themselves. They attack him and carve words in his flesh, and these words, claims the narrator, form the rest of the stories, stories written on a literal, living Book of Blood.

The stills can be seen here :-

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/11144



Details about the movie's production can be viewed here :-

http://www.matadorpictures.com/inpro...okofblood.html

[colubrid660]

I must have missed this thread. Books of Blood films are a VERY good thing.

[jenna26]

Originally Posted by colubrid660

I must have missed this thread. Books of Blood films are a VERY good thing.

I agree. Really looking forward to this.

[colubrid660]

Originally Posted by jenna26

I agree. Really looking forward to this.

Now "The Damnation Game" Tv movie? NOT a good thing.

[beckylouise2904]

Not checked out if someone has already posted but what do you guys think about Barker remaking Hellraiser?

Have just got watching the films, and am not sure they need remaking?? :confused:

[colubrid660]

Originally Posted by beckylouise2904

Not checked out if someone has already posted but what do you guys think about Barker remaking Hellraiser?

Yeha I posted a thread a little earlier saying that its in the works, and as a big plus, Barker is going to be involved in the project. So don't worry.

Have just got watching the films, and am not sure they need remaking?? :confused:

Most recent remakes (like about 400 of the 500 released in the past 6 years :p) didn't need to be made. Barker said something about perhaps using the new technology filmmakers now have to improve the original. Which sounds pretty good. I am not really afraid of this one sucking.

[beckylouise2904]

I suppose it'll be nice that Barker is involved and wants to improve on the originals - which I know I am probably late in discovering them but I found them particularly scary and original! I really hope the Doug Bradley is going to continue on as Pinhead, or I just hope whoever is going to be just as creepy!! Don't suppose you know who its going to be?

[horrorchic]

I thought that they were really orignal. The way that his demonites were. I loved the sketches that he did of them before the movies too. He has great ideas.

[colubrid660]

Originally Posted by beckylouise2904

I suppose it'll be nice that Barker is involved and wants to improve on the originals - which I know I am probably late in discovering them but I found them particularly scary and original! I really hope the Doug Bradley is going to continue on as Pinhead, or I just hope whoever is going to be just as creepy!! Don't suppose you know who its going to be?

Bradley is a good friend of Barker's, and also the ONLY actor to play Pinhead in every sequel. So it may very well be Bradley.

Of course Barker might decide to make the remake slightly closer to the novella Hellraiser was based on, in which the Pinheaded cenobite is female. Who knows?