It’s been awhile since I’ve done a Beyond the Limits feature where I take piece of Clive Barker artwork and examine and talk about how it affects me. Today I look at the painting “Boner” which pokes some fun at both sex and death. The image is an oil on...READ MORE...
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“To Clayton. Friend?” “Friend?” The theme of friendship is what makes Bill Codon’s powerful drama Gods and Monsters such a emotional experience. The film follows the fictionalized final days of director James Whales life as he closely develops a relationship with his gardener named Clay Boone. What makes the movie...READ MORE...
Our names will be written on a thousand walls. Our crimes told and retold by our faithful believers. We shall die together in front of their very eyes and give them something to be haunted by. Come with me and be immortal. – Candyman Actor and producer Danny Stewart has...READ MORE...
In the fall of 1992, the world was introduced to a new horror movie by the name of Candyman. Based upon the wonderful Clive Barker short story “The Forbidden”, Candyman has become a true classic among the horror elite thanks to Bernard Rose’s inspired directing, great performances from its main...READ MORE...
Hello Friends: It’s Tony Todd’s birthday today! I remember my first time seeing him on the silver screen was in Platoon as Sgt. Warren, Candyman and of course The Crow back when it came out in the theater— he killed in a black suit, goatee and glasses as Grange, Top Dollar’s...READ MORE...
As a fan of Clive Barker, I’m overjoyed to see him slowly introducing himself back into fan circles. It’s been far too long. I think this year’s “Texas Frightmare Weekend”really showed him that the fans do miss him. Not only that, but as a horror community in general, we love...READ MORE...
Being a fan of Hellraiser: Bloodline, I’ve always longed to see Kevin Yagher’s original director’s cut that he showed to Dimension Films before he exited the project. Over the years many fans believed that his version was lost when former Dimension Films head Bob Weinstein wanted to rework the film into...READ MORE...
Welcome to Tuesday Tunes! Soulfly has a new album, Ritual with a Clive Barker and Cenobite-inspired song, called “Dead Behind the Eyes”. I like it all right, but I haven’t been following Soulfly since their second album or so, and I love Sepultura’s Chaos AD. In an article in Metal...READ MORE...
[podcast src=”https://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/7228208/height/90/theme/custom/autoplay/no/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/” height=”90″ width=”100%” placement=”top” theme=”custom”]For this Tuesday Tunes I wanted to share a song by the English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth called “Sweetest Maleficia” from their eighth studio album Godspeed on the Devil’s Thunder. The album is based upon the French serial killer Gilles de Rais who fought...READ MORE...
Fan Danny Stewart (Co-executive producer of Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II) loves Hellraiser III: Hell On Earth with a passion. In our conversations online, he talks about it all the time. In fact, he’s working on a top secret project about the film that hopefully we can...READ MORE...
Hello Friends: 31 years ago, The Prince Charles Cinema hosted a charity premiere of Clive Barker’s Hellraiser. The very next day it would hit cinemas in the UK. The US would have to wait an extra week to see the cenobites fill the screen as mysterious apparitions in an empty room with...READ MORE...
This past week Clive Barker’s final directorial effort Lord of Illusions turned twenty-three. To celebrate the occasion, I wanted to share an older interview with actor Scott Bakula that he did with the website ScreenRealm back in 2016. While most of the conversation centers around the popular show Quantum Leap, he had...READ MORE...
Author and screenwriter Peter Atkins has shared a rare photograph from the Clive Barker directed short film, The Forbidden on his Twitter page today. It was supposed to show up in what Atkins describes as a “psychotic moment” in the film. They both certainly look crazy. Too bad they couldn’t edit the...READ MORE...
Reading anything by author Peter Atkins (screenwriter for Hellbound, Hell on Earth, and Bloodline) is always a joy for me. I recently read a couple of his latest short stories and once again Atkins delivers the goods when it comes to his unique style of storytelling. He does an excellent...READ MORE...
Hello Friends: In this special video interview for YouTube, the @BarkerCast Interviews Joe Manco about “The Torturer” short film, now crowdfunding on IndieGogo. This film’s story was written by Shadow Writer Paul Kane, and first published in the “Nailbiters” anthology (released February 2017) and is also currently being turned into...READ MORE...