Clive Barker

Featuring stories from by Paul Kane, Marie O'Regan, Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean, Mike Mignola, Kelley Armstrong, Barbie Wilde, Sarah Langan, Mick Garris, Steve Niles
Reviewed by Lis Fies

I do have something new to ask Mick and Cynthia Garris at horror functions. "Hi Mick and Cynthia. So Mick, when your washed-up British-director character was suspended in the air while mid-insertion into his cute female PA and the cenobites filmed them while they had their skin and bones ripped apart by machines, was that a metaphor for how you have no privacy? Mick? Where are you going? Can we watch?"...

Written by Paul Kane
2009, Skullvines Press
Review by Barbie Wilde

“What Big Teeth You Have!” “The Better To Eat You With, My Dear!”

Sex and violence run like scarlet, subterranean rivers beneath the surface of many iconic fairy tales and Little Red Riding Hood is no exception. A young girl loses her way in a dark forest and meets a Woodsman and then a Wolf. They both ask her questions and give her advice, but who is friend and who is foe? She arrives at Grandma’s house, only to find her beloved Nan in the belly of the beast, literally...

Actress/writer Barbie Wilde, best known for her performance as the one female Cenobite in the Hellraiser film series, has a new story called 'Sister Cilice' featured in the new anthology Hellbound Hearts - twenty-one tales inspired by Clive Barker’s Hellraiser universe (out Sept 29, 2009 in bookstores.) The merciless realm of the demonic Cenobites is the setting for these stories.

Edited by Paul Kane and Marie O’Regan, the anthology also features the work of six other female authors including Kelley Armstrong and Sarah Langan...

Written by Clive Barker and Anthony DiBlasi
Directed by Anthony DiBlasi
Featuring Jackson Rathbone, Shaun Evans, Hanne Steen, Laura Donnelly

So, the new Clive Barker movie Dread? It’s good. It’s definitely worth checking out. For those of you who missed The Midnight Meat Train because of its short stint in the theaters due to some unlucky studio politics can bask in the glory of Anthony DiBlasi’s adaptation of Barker’s short story of the same title – Dread is a seriously effed up and intelligent film with some impressive direction by newcomer DiBlasi. With a cohesive directing style that evidently took into consideration the preservation of the tone of the original story and the artistic expressiveness possible in editing, it’s technically impressive and manages to not insult the audience’s intelligence. Dread isn’t a stupid horror film for teenagers. In fact, this is probably way too intense for Twilighters and Predators-ers…