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Title: A little thin, but worth the time
Review: In order to flesh out two stories "book of blood" and "on jerusalem street" a subplot was added to a very basic story. The original tale is no more than a college student tries to channel spirits in a haunted house, he succeeds and they inscribe their stories into his flesh. The stories, are the books of blood that follow. In the film he's a fraud who used to be able to commune with the dead, but then he get's it back and is hunted for his flesh and the stories it holds. The first paragraph of Barker's story is repeated over and over in unatural dialogue but other than that it's a fairly solid ghost story. This is an old school gore shocker, the type that try to build character and story to get the audience involved so the scares are scary. It doesn't work 100%, it's a bit thin on character and story, so the slow my turn people off. Still, for oringal concept you can't beat it and any Clive Barker fan should be satisfied.
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