From one of the books which started it all...Occult Thriller

Rating: 7/10 (19 February 2005)

In the 90s lots of stuff emerged from graphic-novels like HELLBLAZER (from which this movie was made) and role-playing (KULT). You could say: Hellblazer is for Comics, what NEAR DARK is for Vampire Movies. Or Anne Rice for Vampire Novels: A fresh disrespectful approach in their own time. By now the "adult-occult-thriller-genre" has spawned lots of other movies and Comics like PROPHECY with Christopher Walken. So this is the "original" thing, but it's late, and its not that bad, if you know what to look for... . And its made BEAUTIFUL. Of course a movie has to place more into dynamics instead of Text and Inside-Jokes. But it gets the allover feeling. DO THIS: Read some Hellblazer-Graphic-Novel before going to the movies (HARD TIME or DANGEROUS HABITS) and you get more out of the movie. Without read before, it's like Lord of the Rings without Tolkien in the Background: You don't get the half of it. Always remember: the Movie is more than a comic book, it very often pictures the mythology of a whole genre (like the Lord of the Rings-Movies , like Matrix) and this is about the 90's occult stuff: From NEIL GAIMANs The Book of Magic (where Harry Potter originates together with Constantine, yes) over Garth Ennis PREACHER and of course to HELLBLAZER.