Strange? Hey, we're talkin' Clive Barker here. Pretty much typical horror/zombie/love story. I did watch the entire movie so it rates a 5, because it does have a certain a'peel'. The best that can be said for the flick is Jonas Armstrong has a fine rear end. If that offends you, no skin off my nose, just his.

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.

It is no secret that it was the promise of another Clive Barker horror story that lured me in to watch "Book of Blood". And the synopsis for the movie also did sound fairly interesting.As the movie came to an end, I was left with a sensation that this was definitely not the best of material from Clive Barker. Especially because the story was mediocre at best and it was so predictable that it was almost a farce.The story started out quite well and it did have potential. However, it quickly became quite predictable to the point where there were no surprises or anything overly impressive to be witnessed throughout the course of this movie. At best, then the storyline can be summarized as being generic.It should be said that the acting in the movie was adequate, and people actually managed surprisingly well in the face of having a very generic and predictable script to work with.The concept idea of the story behind "Book of Blood" is quite interesting, but it suffered tremendously under a very generic script, which hardly did the concept idea much justice.There were some interesting enough scenes throughout the movie, and I did like the way that the main character served as a medium for the entities at the gateway. And it was quite graphic at times, and that worked in favor of the movie - providing you can stomach things like that, of course.What topped off the experience was the ending of the movie. The movie went from being mediocre to being downright ludicrous at that moment. It is without a doubt some of the most laughable attempt of making a movie interesting that I have seen in a horror movie in a long, long time. And it didn't serve the movie in any positive way, quite the opposite actually."Book of Blood" had potential to be a good and interesting horror movie, but it just failed horribly given the poor script and the direction that the movie took at the end.

I won't give any spoilers-- because that destroys the reason for watching. Usually, my past experience with Clive Barker adaptations has been rough and not-very-memorable.Other times, Ghost stories always seemed to involve some happy, Upscale yuppie family moving into some idyllic country house and then the Audience is supposed to thrill to the horror of the Perfect Little Yuppie Children being threatened by some ectoplasmic nasty. These formulations are so plastic, I might as well watch Casper the Friendly Ghost.This one, though it spawns from Clive Barker-- it does not make the usual thematic gestures that Hollywood counts as Horror Requirements: Country Mansion with a secret, Sweet beautiful Unsuspecting Yuppie Family Moving in (After all, No-one cares if Ghosts kill Ugly people!), disgustingly adorable sacchar-whiney uber-brats saving Mom and Dad from Pointless Horror. This one is DIFFERENT.Additionally, this one comes via a NON-US directorship production. This is not so much about the Horror of Ghosts. . .it's about the Rules by Which Ghosts Exist, and what happens when a Paranormal Investigator and her team follow-up on a gruesome death in a nondescript row house somewhere in England.The build-up to the climax is slow, be prepared for this. There is no Non-stop high-decibel Hollywood Scream & Splatter here. But there is personal interests and reasons that are explored on the part of each person on the team that makes for a macabre mix-up when the final doors are finally blown open. It's about Personal beliefs and teasingly low-level eroticism. So be aware-- this movie is NOT for kids.The end is. . . interesting.This movie is Girlfriend Friendly and She will find it interesting. And it goes well with a hot, lazy Summer Evening during the Weekend. Turn the Lights down and watch.