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Book of Blood is a British film of genre Drama directed by Clive Barker released in USA on 7 march 2009 with Jonas Armstrong
Book of Blood (2009)
Clive Barker's Book of Blood
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Add to a movie listBook of Blood is a 2009 British mystery-drama-horror film directed by John Harrison and starring Jonas Armstrong, Sophie Ward, and Doug Bradley. It is based on the framing stories from Clive Barker's Books of Blood.
Synopsis
A hooded, disfigured young man is eating at a diner, being watched by a stranger. The stranger is Wyburd (Clive Russell), who has been stalking the young man, Simon (Jonas Armstrong). Wyburd convinces Simon to join him in his truck, where Simon passes out and awakens strapped to a table. Wyburd offers him a choice: a slow death, or a quick and clean death by telling the story of the Book of Blood, a series of scars and inscriptions carved on Simon from head to toe. Opting for a clean death, Simon reveals his story.Actors
Jonas Armstrong
(Simon McNeal)
Sophie Ward
(Mary Florescu)
Doug Bradley
(Tollington)
Clive Russell
(Wyburd)
Simon Bamford
(Derek)
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