When I was writing full time for the podcast a few years ago it seemed the Hellraiser remake was on the fast track to actually becoming a reality. This was coming off the hot heels of the newly released director’s cut of Nightbreed, which was garnering a lot of excellent...READ MORE...
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Today’s Clive Barker‘s Birthday! Born in 1952 in Liverpool, Merseyside, Clive grew up creating stories for his toys, making little movies with them and repainting the wallpaper with watercolors when things went wrong with the monster spitting fire at the plastic men. He was entertained by the spooky tales his...READ MORE...
Clive Barker fans know, and hopefully have made peace with the fact the he will never follow every thread, write every sequel or even finish every book or story he’s begun. Thankfully, we have Mark Miller and his awesome team at Seraphim Films / Seraphim Ink, to help us fill...READ MORE...
On this Collector’s Corner we have a pretty impressive cast-signed poster that belongs to Danny Stewart‘s Hellraiser collection. He was a backer/co-executive producer for the LEVIATHAN Documentary, and lives just outside London. He’s acted in a few short films and one of his latest characters was as “the Gimp”...READ MORE...
Hello Friends: It’s finally here! It was another day of 100 degree temperatures in Arizona, and I was celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Hellraiser, reading stuff and watching clips from The Scarlet Box, when I heard a knock at the door. There was no one there when I opened it, all...READ MORE...
Hello Friends: It’s September 10th, 1987. After the May 13 premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, the Prince Charles Cinema on Leicester Square played HELLRAISER in the UK for the first time, just before the wider UK release the very next day. A week later it would open throughout 1,097 theaters in...READ MORE...
Hello Friends: As you know and we’ve been reporting, the Cabal Cut region 0 package is coming out soon, and it’s going to feature a lot of goodies. You can read about this package here, on Ryan’s post from 5 days ago: [Exclusive] Nightbreed The Cabal Cut Blu-Ray Release Update...READ MORE...
Hello Friends: Remember the first time you saw Lord of Illusions? August 25, 1995 was when it first premiered in the United States. My country Portugal, would have to wait for a single video premiere some time later in January of 1997. I think I saw it as a rental....READ MORE...
Over the past few days, The Real Clive Barker Store has been adding a plethora of new items for sale, and today is no different. They’ve now added two new pieces of apparel to the site, this time both men’s tank tops. Both come in white, and feature an ink-black Barker...READ MORE...
A true treasure trove of Clive Barker artwork has been added for sale on the webstore, RealCliveBarker.com. As usual they’ve unveiled exciting, brand new and never-before-seen sketches and paintings to the webstore, but it’s not these that are making my head feel like it’s about to explode Scanners style. Indeed...READ MORE...
The Real Clive Barker Store has unveiled an anniversary print of Clive Barkers painting ‘City on a Red Boat’ from Abarat II, in celebration of the 15th year anniversary of the publication of the first Abarat novel. It is approximately 20 x 31 inches in size, signed by Clive Barker...READ MORE...
Hello Everyone, On this week’s edition of Clive Barker Podcast’s Scene of the Week, we’re taking a ride on The Midnight Meat Train, a movie which I believe is one of the better film adaptations from Clive’s famous short story collections, The Books of Blood. Unlike films such as Dread...READ MORE...
Hello Everyone, On this week’s edition of Clive Barker Podcast’s Scene of the Week, I’ve chosen the introduction of Harry D’Amour from Clive Barker’s Lord of Illusions. When the audience first meets Harry, he doesn’t strike us as much of a hero. He looks like he’s been on a week...READ MORE...
“I want to be known as an imaginer.” -Clive Barker When asked during an interview with Stanley Wiater what a business card with his name on it would say in regards to occupation, Clive Barker answered with but one word: “Imaginer.” And, it seems, this is the premier description one can...READ MORE...
Hello Friends: A poster for Dog Company’s “Dangerous World” has surfaced for sale yesterday, over at the Clive Barker Collecting group on Facebook, a spare from Russell Cherrington‘s collection (it’s being sold for $100, you can contact him through Facebook or via email) and this brought to my mind an...READ MORE...