Clive Barker is Raising Hell Again

Posted by J.L. Sosa (jorge@filmschoolrejects.com) on November 8, 2007

HellraiserJust when you thought countless piss-poor sequels had diluted the Hellraiser franchise to a horchata-like potency, Clive Barker himself has wicked-good news.

Barker (who, Beatles notwithstanding, is Liverpool’s coolest export), recently told Bloody Disgusting that two crazy Frenchmen are about to reinvent Hellraiser for the post-Jim Rose Circus age.

“I had some specific suggestions, which I don’t want to spoil for you or anyone else, about how things might be taken up a notch or two,” Barker said. “And you know S&M just isn’t what it used to be! So if we’re to do the whips and chains and the hooks we have to do them at a whole new level because I think it’s tired material.”

Enter Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, creators of 2007’s Inside, a movie AllMovie.com refers to as a “daring tale of caesarian terror.”

That’s not “caesarian” in the sense of a yummy oily salad with Parmesan cheese sprinkled all over it. That’s “caesarian” in the sense of babies gettin’ cut outta their mommas’ wombs and shit.

Sounds like Barker may have found just the right pair of twisted kindred souls to help him re-invent the Pinhead.


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  • I don't think that I can ever take Clive Barker seriously again. While at Comic Con, I watched as a drunk, presumably high Barker made an ass of himself telling the story of where the name "Midnight Meat Train" came from. I'll give you a hint, it had something to do with "special brownies." I'll be the first to admit that Barker has a creepy imagination, but he is also a complete nutjob.
  • Elsa
    Before you start slandering the man's character, perhaps you should have more information on his condition. When I've seen him in recent interviews for Midnight Meat Train, he seems to be in pain or struggling to speak. My fear was that he is suffering privately witlh an illness of some sort. Perhaps he was on prescribed medication? Please show some respect for such a disturbed and wonderfully horrific mind!
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