Barry Del Sherman, Daniel von Bargen, Famke Janssen
Horror maestro Clive Barker directed and wrote this gruesome tale of modern-day sorcery set in the world of professional magic. When a top magician dies during his act, Los Angeles psychic investigato...( read more
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DVD Release Date: August 28, 2001
Stats: 324 reviews
I had such high hopes for this movie; based on a book by Clive Barker and with a good cast. I even liked the theme of real magic being resisted by one talented in the field but turned off by seeing its extreme. But this movie seems like a huge muddled narrative mess with ugly eff...( read more)
Clive Barker's movie about a detective investigating a stage magician with real tricks, a series of grisly murders, and their connections with and a strange cult in the desert. Great special effects and plotting make for an enjoyable movie. There's plenty of gore to be seen in th...( read more)
Scott Bakula never looked hotter. This film is a sequel to the Clive Barker books, The Great and Secret Show and Everville.
Clive Barker comes back with his usual dark and macabre atmospehere and style and puts it again into your eyes, perhaps with less originality and quality than when in his good days, but ok indeed. Steve Buscemi was the most notable highlight.
40/100
Visually inventive with a few scenes I thought were really good, especially the all out ending.
Clive Barker was a great writer when he wrote the "Books of Blood", and occasionally shows the same potential he once had, although much of it is hit or miss. As a director, he mostly misses every mark after the first "Hellraiser" film. This movie is more horrible than horror, so...( read more)
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