It was a new avenue to explore and that is energizing for any creative professional. That would be a help with a new project that had just come his way.īarker had to have known his star was starting to fade when he was approached about making a horror game. They were all right and in keeping the zeitgeist of the Nineties.īarker was a decent artist he frequently illustrated his own books, and this gave his work a distinct visual attribute. I was never into his books, but I did see the movies. Night Breed was a very successful comic book title for a few years. Hellraiser, Candyman, and Night Breed became mainstays of pop culture horror in the late 80s and early 90s. His movies were low-budget but financially successful. Blood and pain and the desire for these things were explicitly evident in his stories. He hit it big in the 1980s blending horror with an eroticism that was flavored by extreme masochism. The theater never really took off for him, but his work in novels did. He tried acting and directing but it was in writing where his talent made itself known. Or maybe the core of his work was always driven by sexual degeneracy and at age seventy he just isn’t up for it like he used to be.īarker started out in the British theater in the 1970s and in keeping with the traditions of that august institution, he worked as a part-time rent-boy to make ends meet. Maybe the Hellraiser series’ reputation took Barker’s with it when it cratered. There is the sense, as you are visiting different dimensions and alien cities, that a monster in an alien city is a different thing than a monster sitting in your kitchen sink!” – Clive BarkerĬlive Barker isn’t quite as big as he used to be. It’s horror which is very bloody, very graphic, with plenty of monsters, no question but also a big adventure level in it. It’s not horror in the sense of Hellraiser. “’s a dark fantasy with lots of levels, lots of realities in it.
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