New Article on Scarlet Gospels!!!
Over at Revelations Facebook page they’ve posted an article from tor.com about the upcoming(and highly anticipated) novel from Clive Barker The Scarlet Gospels. The month of May cannot come soon enough. In fact get here already will you!
Also, there’s a part of the article that bothers me the way that it’s written and I don’t believe it’s entirely true. Read the quote below and let me know what you think.
“Inquiring minds might want to know why we’re going back to hell. Well, while Barker both wrote and directed the first Hellraiser, he’s distanced himself since from the eight other films which followed, calling them “abominations” and “shockingly bad.” And so, as he put it fifteen years ago:
“I want to give Pinhead a good send-off. I want to do it right. If we are going to get rid of the old guy, let’s do it with some style. Because after this there will be no more Pinhead stories. Because this story is the end of Pinhead.
”This story will mark his death.”
I’m pretty sure Clive enjoys Hellbound and Hell on Earth. And maybe some of Bloodline. But I was always under the impression that the direct-to-video sequels were the films he considered to be sore spots of the Hellraiser franchise?
Here’s a link to the article: http://www.tor.com/blogs/2015/01/bff-back-to-hell-with-clive-barker
Clive did a Q/A and reading for The Thief of Always at the Pike Place Market in Seattle, 1991. During the Q/A somebody asked what he thought of Hellraiser 3. He said, “There shouldn’t be three of any movie. Look at Return of the Jedi, they blew up the Death Star again. Look at Alien 3. We’re doing something very interesting with the new one coming up…”
Interesting. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Hey Ryan,
In the context of that quote where he says, We’re doing something very interesting with the new coming up…” Is he referring to part 3 or Bloodline? The quote is from 1991 but Hell on Earth didn’t come out until 1992. Just curious all.
I know he didn’t like Hell on Earth or Bloodline, including Kevin Yahger’s original version. I think that info came to light during the work print research. He directed a couple of scenes in Hell on Earth because he told them he wouldn’t let them use his name otherwise, but he was still less than enthusiastic about it.
He distanced himself from Hellbound as well, stating it’s not the movie he would have made. Back when it came out, the genre magazine all heaped hate on it, and Clive always seemed to damn it with faint praise at best. I have a little seen interview where he stated it wasn’t even his idea that the Cenobites were former humans. (That made me sure Elliott will not be making an appearance in the novel.) There have been times where he’s hated his own Hellraiser movie, though, so his feelings may have changed over the years.
Dave: I honestly didn’t know he felt that about Hellbound and Hell on Earth. I thought he was always supportive of those films because of the involvement of Peter Atkins and Doug Bradley. But I guess that doesn’t mean he enjoyed them. As for Bloodline I think he enjoyed the first twenty of it. There’s a quote on Revelations where he says that but overall yes he hated it. So I guess all in all he’s never been a fan of the films after the first. Thanks for sharing.
But I do find it strange that he says it wasn’t his idea that the cenobites were not former humans? I know Doug stated that in an interview before because he wanted to know more about the character.
Rob: Then it’s possible the signing was in 1992. And he was saying they were trying something interesting with Bloodline, referring to the 3 generations and history of the puzzle box.
Dave: That’s really interesting. I think history has been kind to Hellhound, even though people like Roger Ebert were not.
I posted a picture of my ticket on our Thief of Always page. https://clivebarkercast.com/2014/05/17/episode-71-the-thief-of-always/
I pre-ordered the ticket 11/20/91 but it doesn’t say the date of the actual even, just the time.