Good concept, poorly executed.

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Viewers friendly with a kind of a deep story. I didn't really got the story until I read some reviews after the movie.Not really horror except for 2 scenes - the backstory and the creepy end. There are also some sex scenes with nudity. In the very beginning the viewer meets the main character who actually tells us the story "how he ended like this".There are a hot teacher, tough guy obviously not her husband and a freshman (student).There is a haunted house where things are supposed to happen.The backstory of the house is the only good thing about this movie - scary and brutal, there is violence, blood, skin torn apart. They show you things you wanna see in the movie but you never see.Killings close to none. Nothing paranormal. A little blood, a little more blood and a lot of blood in this movie. Disney's Pirate of the Caribbean was a better horror movie.Nothing is what you think it is.I lost interest in watching it after some time, but finished the movie. The sex scene was a big distraction for me. Most of the time nothing really happened.I would have voted 3/10 but there were like 2 good scenes.

The reason I watched this was down to the fact I once had an interest in Clive Barker who despite a somewhat pretentious writer could spin a good horror yarn . HELLRAISER remains one of my all time favourite horror movies . Also this film takes place in Edinburgh a city I know very well and if nothing else a lot of entertainment value can be had by shouting out I know that location The bad news is that if you're Edinburgh born and bred you'll find that the main location is the interior of a film set impersonating a large Georgian flat in Edinburgh's New Town and when you've seen one gloomy interior you've seen them all . Don't say you weren't warned because the film starts with a close of a full English breakfast so location spotting isn't the film's strong point which limits itself to a very few establishing shots of the Edinburgh city landscape That said anyone outside of Midlothian won't be interested where the story is set , only in the story itself . One wonders about the obstacles the story might have since the original story by Barker is merely used as a literary device by the writer to book end a series of short stories , one of which THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN shows one of the problems elongating a short story beyond its natural length To be fair writer/director John Harrison has made an interesting haunted house thriller . It's a very limited subgenre and Harrison does rely on the old clichéd cinematic tricks such as the sound mix to make the audience jump . It's not out and out horror but the few scenes that do rely on violence and gore are very effective when they do happen . It's no HELLRAISER but is engaging enough as a haunted house chiller . One can't help also asking why cinema hasn't taken up more Baker adaptations ? He's not a great writer , relying a little too much on purple prose but like Michael Chrichton his great strength was as an ideas man and there's worse writers studios can draw on for inspiration than Barker

Book of Blood (2009) I actually forgot to post this last year, I SAW this over a year ago, or around this time last year.This movie for me, I like the bloody death near the start of the movie, which were really bloody and tad gory but after that, I just could get into first part of the movie.I stuck with it for the second part of the movie, were i really got into the movie, which i found it a lot more enjoyable.There were some really decent gory and Bloodly scene's in this movie and there were decent Ghost scenes in this movie.Nothing really creepy or scary but the movie it's self was very enjoyable 6 out of 10

As the gentlemen towards the end of the movie says "You tell a good story, friend. But sad to say, I'm not moved. I don't feel anything." This movie does not do justice to Barker's writing in any way.The downsides:The acting is wooden - Facial expressions are practically non-existent, especially the leading lady appears to be in a constant daze. Body language does not match the action or the words. The main character overcompensates by acting as if he were part of an amateur ensemble told to really get into it. His pecker totally steals the scene.The script-writing makes me cringe - Exchanges between the characters mostly consist of lined up one-liners with no natural flow or credibility. Saying things like "I don't want to lose you" and the excessive grieving after the break-up of a relationship that was not really one to start with is just not believable. And why does the lady suddenly go blonde at the end of the movie?The pace is slow - I'm fine with slow movies, if the pace is required to establish relationships, motives and characters, but the acting and script allow for none of these to develop, so the results is..... BORING!Special effects - The dragonflies scream CGI. Loudly.Redeeming qualities:Special effects - The writing on the young man's skin looks really nice when it first appears.The pecker shot - Not really my thing, but it firmly establishes that this is not a Hollywood movie.The sex scenes - Well..... they're good. They're the only time the actors actually show some emotion, albeit of the physical kind.Conclusion: The sex scenes were the best thing about this movie - How bad must a horror flick be to elicit such a statement?