Clive Barker

Clive Barker (born October 5, 1952, Liverpool, England) is a British author, director and visual artist.

Movies

Barker has a keen interest in movie production, although his movies have received varying acclaim. The most successful was 1987's Hellraiser, based on his novella "The Hellbound Heart". His early movies, the shorts The Forbidden and Salome are experimental art movies with surrealist elements, now rereleased together, to moderate critical acclaim. After his film Nightbreed, which was widely considered to be a flop, Barker returned to write and direct Lord of Illusions. He is currently working on a series of movie adaptations of his The Abarat Quartet books, under Disney's management; a script based from a real Miami, Florida newspaper article, about the creepily-universal supernatural myths homeless children tell one another; and a film based on his Tortured Souls line of toys from McFarlane Toys.

Related Topics:
1987 - Hellraiser - The Hellbound Heart - Lord of Illusions - Tortured Souls - McFarlane Toys

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A short story titled The Forbidden from Barker's In the Flesh provided the basis for the film Candyman and its two sequels.

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