hello everybody welcome to my channel today i will explain a hulu original film called books of blood
it has a rating of 5.6 out of 10 and is directed by brandon braga the writer of this film is adam
simon it is based on the 1984 book series of books of blood by author clive barker
there were six books in this series which you will find in two volumes nowadays
many short stories written in these books have already been made into films like rawhead rex
candyman quicksilver highway the midnight knee train and the 2009 film book of blood i will tell
some interesting facts related to this film at the end so please watch till the end this movie is
non-linear and has mainly three different stories the timeliness of the stories is also different
which converge at the climax the film begins with the voiceover of a lady named mary who says that
everyone will die one day but sometimes people's death is so shocking that it gets sealed in the
collective memory of the rest there is a place where these dead people write their story in the
first story we see a librarian getting a beating from a guy named bennett who was a contact killer
bennett beats the hell out of this librarian for money which he owed but the poor guy had run out
of his options as a last attempt he revealed a secret book which was worth millions bennett
thanks him by slicing his throat next bennett shares this info with his buddy in crime steve
he says the book is in a house located in the revanmore area steve was surprised he
says that area is haunted something happened there years ago like chernobyl it's abandoned
nobody dares to go there bennett was desperate for money hence he mocked it as a superstition he
locks the house address on the car's gps now the name jenna appears on the screen written in blood
the second story is about a girl named jenna who lived in the sea facing house with her parents
apparently jenna was a patient of misophonia a mental illness where normal sounds like chewing
sounds water dripping sounds repetitive sounds would trigger an outburst of anger irritation
and immense pain her hearing was also above normal she could hear even the smallest movement
the doctors had prescribed her medicine which she was no longer taking as in they were making
her inactive and numb she started listening to white noise on headphones to block the sounds
jenna had messed something up with a boy in college on which her parents were a little angry
they now decide to send jenna again to an institution called the farm so that
she can be treated properly jenna overhears their plan and runs away at midnight stealing
money from the parents safe jenna takes a ticket to los angeles from the bus station
we see a man at the station who was staring at her jenna gets scared and runs from there
quickly after some time the man follows jenna and boards the same bus in which jenna was
jenna thinks that this guy is stalking her and she drops at the next city it was night time
she booked a homestay to stay while going there she narrowly survives a car accident
the driver in the green car was driving fast as he thought there would be no traffic at night time
now we meet three new characters at the home stay ellie and sam were the owners of the home
stay gavin had come from australia to stay there for the overnight ellie was a retired
nurse who now offers tea to jenna jenna and gavin talk casually and he gives his number
now while sleeping in the room jenna heard a sound from the wall upon checking it a cockroach comes
out of the wall jenna gets a dream where she sees that same bus man in front of her cc'ing house
she wakes up in horror and panic where we see that man near her window at this stay home
jenna thinks this is her hallucination or illusion here we observe a strange phenomenon jenna was now
completely in a catatonic state meaning she was conscious but could not move her body
her hands and legs were locked in the next scene we see gavin at jenna's room it seems he was there
with the intention of intimacy now sam and ellie arrived at jenna's room too they grabbed gavin and
took him out ellie talks here in a cryptic way and sam takes jenna's body measurement
jenna was looking at all this in horror but she couldn't do anything due to her catatonic state
the next morning jenna thinks all this as her nightmare she goes to the coffee
shop to have a cup of coffee there she whatsapp's gavin but gavin does not answer
here she again sees that man outside the coffee shop seeing whom she runs again in panic
the man also starts following her jenna now comes back home stay where she tells her story
of mental illness to ellie ellie allows her to stay there for a few days now at night jenna
again hears some sounds from the wall of the room this time she finds a secret opening in the wall
there he saw a woman glued to the wall who was like a zombie
jenna panics and she gets a text message from gavin jenna urges him to call 9-1-1 but no
reply comes from gavin's side we see gavin's phone was with ellie and she was texting jenna
ellie starts banging jenna's room she was now pretty sure that ellie and sam were dangerous
and she opened the door attacked them and ran away from them sam has already locked all the
doors and windows of this house jenna was trapped here in a desperate attempt she enters an opening
where she sees many zombies like people who are stuck on the wall they start attacking her
as soon as jenna starts running away from their two sam catches her ellie gives her a
sedative injection and ties her to the chair she starts narrating her psycho theory i was a nurse
i treated many patients living on life support with my special painkillers and nutrients
hospital administration didn't like it they fired me when sam lost his job my daughter
and her husband arrived here to stay with us later they were planning to place us in an old age home
they wanted to sell this house so i used my skills made them a permanent zombie now we all are living
happily under one roof ellie offers the same treatment to jenna in order to get rid of her pain
last night ellie gave jenna and gavin t mixed with her medicine which made jenna catatonic
which caused gavin to wander around that's why he was in jenna's room these guys already turned him
into a zombie it seemed these two old people had gone mad and they used to kill everyone who stayed
in their home now ellie gives her a catatonic injection in jenna's eye here we see that man who
was following jenna arriving at this home state he wasn't an illusion of jenna but he was real
he was stalking her he narrates a story regarding jenna jenna and this guy's son tony had some sort
of relationship at the institute tony was admitted there for depression when tony committed suicide
there he was on the phone with jenna this guy wanted to ask a few questions about this to jenna
jenna heard all this she was scared due to her mental condition the injection was slow at work
she tries to untie herself ellie offers a cup of tea to this guy as well when he becomes catatonic
sam attacks him from behind and kills him when these two old guys were disposing the body
jenna freed herself she crawls out of her chair to the window and jumps from there
she walks slowly to the car hanger where she sees another dead body whose limbs are
shredded to pieces she tries to run away from this house with tony's dad's car but for her bad luck
sam arrives in fear she hides at the back of the car where sam drives the car
ellie was following his car from her car sam stops at a big ditch where he dumps that car the
car rapidly starts to descent jenna was shouting and screaming from inside but the car doesn't stop
it falls down the film's third story starts now we see a name miles this story is based on two
characters mary and simon mary here was narrating this story to some rich folks mary was a professor
who was known for debunking paranormal activities one day a vcr cassette arrived at mary's office
in the video one naked guy was standing in an empty room suddenly darkness spreads in that
room and we see lots of messages written in red color that nude guy was suffering from pain mary
was supposed to debunk this video but she ignores it that nude guy's name was simon mary had a son
named miles who was suffering from leukemia mary's ex-husband was a drug addict he was not a good dad
mary stopped him from visiting miles for the last time a few days later miles dies and mary
buried him next day simon pays a visit to mary and says he is a medium ghosts are using him to send
messages all the messages on the wall are from the ghosts he insists on a session from mary mary was
not that interested but she agreed to debunk him mary locked simon in an empty room as soon
as simon gave the permission for possession the darkness spread in that room horrible sounds start
echoing simon again falls down with pain this time as well there were lots of messages on the wall
one particular message was from elise who says i am not sleeping mommy mary was confused and
shot here she has not seen this kind of paranormal activities before she takes simon to the hospital
and starts studying his callings over the time these two get close and eventually get married
one night during their sleep we see the ghost of miles who hover around mary and touches her
in one scene we see the grave of miles the date on this gravestone was april 20th 1993 meaning
this third story was happening in the 90s where the first two stories were happening in 2020
here simon was hired by mary's ex-husband to marry her and deceive her simon was no
medium he totally faked his show he paid the security to cut the power exactly at that moment
on the previous day he wrote all those messages on the wall with a chemical called phenolphthalein
during the session when darkness spread simon spread the wall with an ammonia sprayer
ammonia is a reacting agent as soon as it touched with phenolphthalein the messages became visible
simon injected himself with micro doses of penicillin which was allergic to him
it caused him real pain hence everybody believed in his trick
actually he made a perfect trick mary was shocked knowing all this she starts crying
while sitting in miles room despite having written so much about paranormal fake claims
she became the victim of fraud then a message starts being typed in the blackboard of miles room
it says bring him to us now mary sees miles's ghost sleeping on his bed the next day simon
starts leaving the house but murray stops him by saying that today is the fundraising dinner and
he can't hold back simon was going to get a lot of money from this fundraising event so he agreed to
his active medium but at the party mary tricks him and takes him and the rest to miles's room
mary says to everyone that today simon will do a live demonstration
simon had no idea of what was happening mary locks him in the room by making him nude now suddenly
we see many ghosts in that room and they start writing their story one by one on simon's skin
then suddenly the power of the whole area goes off mary now pacifies simon by coming inside the room
all the rich people run away seeing this actually it was the ravenmore area in which mary's house
was located now we also see bennett's name written in blood on the screen the story goes
back to 2020 where bennett and steve are driving towards the ravenmore area in their green car
it was this green car from which jen and narrowly escaped bennett was driving this as soon as they
reached that haunted area the cars break down here steve sees his mother's ghost in the back mirror
steve follows that ghost into a trance-like state and arrives at an abundant church
there he sits in the position of committing suicide by placing a gun on his neck seeing
this erratic behavior of steve bennett was shocked and he tried to convince steve but it was too late
steve commits suicide by shooting himself bennett now runs away from this church when
he sits in his car the car starts moving on its own it drove him to mary's house
mary's house was clean and looked like a new one bennett starts looking for the book in this house
and while searching he comes to miles room in miles room there was mary who was old and there
was also simon who was the same as he looked in 1993. ghosts made him a zombie simon was
the book of dead on which the ghosts used to come and write their story in the original 1984 book
mary made a deal with these ghosts where they used to possess simon and narrate stories there
here also mary might be publishing stories but it is not specifically mentioned
here mary says to bennett that you are not the first one to come here in search of that book
for those who came here their death is already written in that book
bennett's name gets added on simon's head we see many rats rushing towards bennett to kill him
in order to escape from him he starts running from the house as soon as he goes to the garden
of the house he attacks the rats with a knife instead of killing them he gets injured later
while running in the injured state he comes to the same house where jenna and gavin stayed
there sam was busy in handling gavin's body ellie attacks bennett and kills him
it was this bennett's body which jenna saw in the car's hanger the limbs were shredded now
in the next scene we see jenna in hospital where she apparently survived the accident
the police tell their parents that tony's father had followed her and it seemed that he wanted to
commit suicide with jenna he may have believed that jenna may be responsible for tony's death
hence in despair he might have done this the police recovered tony's dad's body
from the crash site as sam placed him at the driver's seat before crashing it
we come to know the backstory of jenna and tony where two mentally ill patients had a relationship
tony was on the roof of a building and jenna was in her bedroom jenna calls tony and tells a lie
that she is also on the roof of another building she says some highly nonsense philosophical things
such as life is a lie and there is life after death tony was a recovering depression patient he
jumps without thinking much after the car accident guilt for jenna was too much after recovery she
voluntarily goes to the same homestay and asks ellie to end her pain sam and ellie bury her in
her room after sealing her ear jenna dies there and her name is also added to the books of blood
the film ends here so this is the story of the hulu original film books of blood
three different stories are beautifully mixed here in this you will see suspense horror jump
scares and a great plot twist the premise of this film is that you cannot run away from your fate
bennett and steve were contact killers and they died due to their greed jenna was a mentally ill
patient who had come to terms with her failure she made a mistake and accepted a scary death
instead of an easy death simon paid the price for his ghost joke so i hope you enjoyed this video if
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