A review by macbean221b
Books of Blood: Volume Three, by Clive Barker
3.0
Son of Celluloid - An escaped convict dies hidden in a movie theater and his body is never found. Over the years, his cancerous tumor takes the strong emotions of the theater audiences and becomes sentient. And then starts killing people. This story was pretty weird, even by Clive Barker standards, yet it still managed to bore me. It took me days to get through it and I wasn't impressed at the end.
Rawhead Rex - A seriously evil ancient monster is accidentally released from its underground prison and wreaks havoc on an English town. The beginning of this story didn't do much for me; after the last story, I was starting to worry this whole book would be a bust. But by the end I liked this one, even though there were a few parts I felt were there only for shock value (which I don't care for) and the actual ending itself wasn't all that special.
Confessions of a (Pornographer's) Shroud - A Catholic guy is framed as the king of a porn cartel. He goes on a bit of a rampage and kills some of his enemies, but the remaining ones get their revenge and he is killed, too. But then he manages to possess a sheet... Sounds ridiculous, doesn't it? It is, a little bit. This story is seriously dark comedy. I think it's my favorite in this book.
Scape-Goats - Four people get stranded when their yacht ends up beached on an uncharted island in the Hebrides. This island happens to be situated where the currents carry the bodies of all the people who drown at sea. DUN DUN DUNNNNN! This story wasn't as good as it sounds like it should be, but I didn't dislike it.
Human Remains - It's a doppelgänger story, y'all. I LOVE THOSE.
Rawhead Rex - A seriously evil ancient monster is accidentally released from its underground prison and wreaks havoc on an English town. The beginning of this story didn't do much for me; after the last story, I was starting to worry this whole book would be a bust. But by the end I liked this one, even though there were a few parts I felt were there only for shock value (which I don't care for) and the actual ending itself wasn't all that special.
Confessions of a (Pornographer's) Shroud - A Catholic guy is framed as the king of a porn cartel. He goes on a bit of a rampage and kills some of his enemies, but the remaining ones get their revenge and he is killed, too. But then he manages to possess a sheet... Sounds ridiculous, doesn't it? It is, a little bit. This story is seriously dark comedy. I think it's my favorite in this book.
Scape-Goats - Four people get stranded when their yacht ends up beached on an uncharted island in the Hebrides. This island happens to be situated where the currents carry the bodies of all the people who drown at sea. DUN DUN DUNNNNN! This story wasn't as good as it sounds like it should be, but I didn't dislike it.
Human Remains - It's a doppelgänger story, y'all. I LOVE THOSE.