![]() ![]() She finds herself at a B&B run by Sam ( Nicholas Campbell) and Ellie ( Freda Foh Shen), a retired couple who seem eager to give the support Jenna doesn’t feel from her own parents. The first story, “Jenna,” features college dropout Jenna ( Britt Robertson) running away from her problems at home. Barker produced the film while Braga co-wrote it with Adam Simon, and it updates the stories of the ‘80s for a new millennium.īooks of Blood holds three interconnected spooky tales bookended by a framing device of two men looking for the eponymous Book of Blood to score some quick cash. As the opening text lets us know, director Brannon Braga “dares to open those pages again,” with his new movie for Hulu, Books of Blood. However, it’s been over a decade since Barker’s hellish creations graced the screen. His work spawned also two iconic horror franchises, Hellraiser and Candyman, the first movie of each is often regarded as classics of the genre. Not only did he write books and stories he also helped produce, direct, and write the film adaptations to his work. Unabashedly queer, Barker combined horror and fantasy, violence and sex, and scares and laughs all with reckless abandon, much to the delight of horror fans worldwide. Clive Barker burst onto the horror scene with a splash of gore in the mid-1980s when he published anthology series Books of Blood. ![]()
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