Hulu has released a short teaser trailer for its forthcoming exclusive horror film, Brannon Braga’s Books of Blood. The feature-length horror film, based on Clive Barker’s short story collection, is described by Hulu as “a journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.” Ok, calm down, Hulu, it’s just a spooky anthology. That’s cool enough without things getting uncharted and/or forbidden.
The actual plot of Books of Blood is surprisingly hard to come by, as Hulu’s being unaccountably vague on the subject. As per early production announcements (hat tip here to “Stubby the Rocket” at Tor), 2020’s Books of Blood is an anthology containing three short films. Two appear to be very loose adaptations of Barker’s “The Book of Blood” and “On Jerusalem Street,” the two parts of the framing story that joins Books of Blood together; Mary (Anna Friel) is a famous psychologist and skeptic who, following the death of her son from leukemia, is taken in by a charismatic con artist (Rafi Gavron) who claims to be a ghost whisperer. The third, about a girl (Britt Robertson) who flees to Los Angeles to avoid being institutionalized, is an apparently original story by Braga and Adam Simon.
In addition to Friel, Gavron, and Robertson, Books of Blood also stars Yul Vazquez, Nicholas Campbell, Freda Foh Shen, and Saad Siddiqui.
Brannon Braga is arguably best-known for his work in TV, with credits as a producer, writer, and director on shows like Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, The Orville, Threshold, Flashforward, Terra Nova, and Salem, the latter of which he co-created with Adam Simon for WGN America. Books of Blood is Braga’s first time directing a full-length film; he also co-wrote the script and executive produced, alongside Clive Barker and Seth MacFarlane.
The original six Books of Blood were published one by one in the UK from 1984 through 1985, with each volume containing four to six short stories. The collection won Barker a British Fantasy Award in 1985 for Short Story (“In the Hills, the Cities”), and a World Fantasy Award the same year for Best Collection/Anthology. Between the Books of Blood and his first novel, 1985’s The Damnation Game, Barker became an A-list horror author virtually overnight, and has been working in prose, TV, film, comics, and video games ever since.
While film fans probably know Barker best as “the Hellraiser guy,” many of the short stories in Books of Blood have been adapted to film or TV. The most famous example is 1992’s Candyman, based on “The Forbidden” in the fifth volume; others include Rawhead Rex, Lord of Illusions, Quicksilver Highway, Dread, and a 1986 episode of the horror TV series Tales from the Darkside.
Books of Blood debuts exclusively on Hulu on October 7th.
Source: Bloody Disgusting
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