![]() ![]() All around it’s a solid A for Braga’s eerie opulence: disembodied shadows (OR ARE THEY?) flitting through endless halls, inmates lining the sickly-green hallways of asylums, menacing cars driven by phantoms, armies of vermin, and the blood, oh my sweet Beelzebub on a biscuit, the blood. Director Brannon Braga also indulges in a lazy reliance on atmospherics. ![]() (To be fair, that’s an extremely high bar.) Inspired by horrormeister Clive Barker’s 1984-1985 sextet of the same name, (Barker is credited as a cowriter on the screenplay), Books of Blood has several respectable plot twists but just as many groan-worthy (and not in a good way) cliches. It’s a disappointment that the film overall fails to live up to the literary rule-breaker it initially evokes with such magnificent creepiness. Perhaps it is coincidence, but director Brannon Braga’s choice in both bedroom décor color palette and mentally disturbed (according to other people) heroine is enough to send shivers of joy up the spines of English majors of a certain era. If you’re a fan of “The Yellow Wallpaper”-and by the light of All the Queens of Horror, there is no better time than right now to re/acquaint yourself with Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1892 proto-feminist classic-you will find yourself positively geeking out with seasonally malevolent glee at the first act of Books of Blood. Best of Chicago 2022: Sports & Recreation.Best of Chicago 2022: Music & Nightlife.Get your Best of Chicago tickets! Ticket prices go up May 15 > Close ![]()
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