Tag Archives: Clive Barker

24 Hours of Horror for Halloween

Looking for Halloween (or Halloween-weekend) viewing recommendations? Here’s another proposed 24 hour marathon from Midnight Only, one to fit the season. Of course, rather than indulge in the whole exhaustive thing, you can simply take a film or two that … Continue reading

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Nightbreed: The Cabal Cut (1990/2012)

“I wanted to see more of Midian,” said Russell Cherrington when asked why he decided to restore Clive Barker’s Nightbreed (1990) to its original length of 155 minutes. It was a good answer, as far as I was concerned. He … Continue reading

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Hellraiser (1987)

When I was a teenager, I thought Clive Barker was the bee’s knees.  The blood-spattered bee’s bloody, bloody knees.  I first encountered him through Weaveworld, which I’d expected to be a sex-and-violence fantasy novel; instead I was initiated into the … Continue reading

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