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I decided it would be entertaining to preface each of the parts with a poem or essay which was relevant to the contents, as I had in Weaveworld, where the philosopher Francis Bacon and the poet W.B. Yeats and Robert Frost are amongst the writers I quote. By the time I wrote Cabal, however, I was in a more anarchic mood. I decided to invent my own authors and write my own quotes (thus ensuring that they would be relevant). It was immense fun." The first of these was Domingo de Ybarrondo, a clown character that Clive had written a decade earlier into a then-unpublished quartet of tales of Maximillian Bacchus and his Travelling Circus.

Themes and interpretations [ edit ] [Writer-director Clive] Barker, himself a gay man, makes his Nightbreed spectacularly queer, chiefly through its visual design and dishy repartee: the monsters sport leather, tattoos, body-piercings, shaved heads and/or pony-tails, Doc Marten boots, vests upon bare chests, and van dykes ("Satan beards" or "queer beards"), a look that was concurrently being made fashionable by Queer Nationalists, members of Act Up, and the visual stylizations of queer theatre pieces such as Reza Abdoh's Bogeyman.

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Nightbreed has been characterized as containing themes related to queerness and the LGBT community. In 1997, author Harry M. Benshoff called it, "One of the first horror films to make an explicit connection between monsters and the activist politics of the queer community". [8] The score was composed by Danny Elfman and conducted by Shirley Walker, who also wrote the additional cue "Charge of the Berserkers" for the film's climax and received an onscreen credit. Elfman said of his score: "Once again it was time for me to stretch out... Combining dark/fun/sweet/tribal all into one. The great joy in the score for me, other than working for Clive Barker, was being able to use the children's voices and a whole slew of ethnic drums and instruments together with an orchestra, in an attempt to bring a unique musical tone to the film". [31] Barker said "Danny is an extraordinary talent. The most uncompromised portion of that entire movie is the score". [32] As the vision turns from the persecution to follow one of the survivors making their journey to Midian to create their refuge, bearing caskets containing pieces of their wounded god - 'Baphomet, Who Made Midian; male, female, beast and star in one body, now divided' - Lori finds her allegiances changed:

Based on Barker's short stories "The Book of Blood" from Books of Blood: Volume One and "On Jerusalem Street" from Books of Blood: Volume Six During an interview in 2022 on The Ghost of Hollywood, cinematographer Robin Vidgeon, mentioned that he disliked working with David Cronenberg, stating Cronenberg complained to Clive that he was being usurped. [25] nightbreed--are in hiding. They are possessed of extraordinary powers; so is Boone. And in the hunt for Boone, Meanwhile, Captain Eigerman wanders the underground remains of the cemetery where he stumbles upon the transformed Ashberry, who longs for revenge after his burning by Baphomet. Eigerman shares this desire, but Ashberry rejects Eigerman's offer, kills him, and starts his hunt for the Nightbreed. Despite the experience of writing The Hellbound Heart and seeing the success born of its immediate adaptation into a screenplay, Clive did not write Cabal with the idea of filming it. "I'm nervous of the idea of doing books as first draft screenplays. I'm wholly committed to the word, wholly obsessed with the word. Ideas get re-routed to the movies, if you like, but they don't start off that way. It would be very disruptive to the way I write to think that way. However, as I was finishing it, I realised that it would lend itself very nicely to movie adaptation."

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Driven by both love and compassion Lori also plays the innocent Beauty in search of the Beast she both fears and loves and Clive explores these hidden selves and the masks that are worn - physical masks, uniforms that define accepted authority and behaviours and barriers thrown up as mental defence mechanisms. Clive's own childhood ritual of screwing up his face at the window is an example of one of his own masks in action, as is his showman's face in promotional interviews which covers an intensely private persona. Using it in his fiction he subverts stereotypes and reveals unexpected appetites and passions in his characters. "The mask is, of course, both a means of concealment and one of confession," he says. "It covers the human and reveals the inhuman. The man disappears, and a creature of mythic proportions replaces him: some demon or divinity, a terrible intelligence." Barker was born in Liverpool, the son of Joan Ruby (née Revill), a painter and school welfare officer, and Leonard Barker, a personnel director for an industrial relations firm. [3] [4] He was educated at Dovedale Primary School, Quarry Bank High School and the University of Liverpool, where he studied English and philosophy. [5] Boone's lover, Lori, is unable to cope with what she has been told about Boone, so she travels to Midian for answers. Along the way, she makes friends with Sheryl, who accompanies her, though Sheryl stays in town and does not enter the cemetery. Lori encounters a small, frail creature writhing in pain at the cemetery. One of the Night Breed, Rachel, begs Lori to bring the creature to her. When she does so, the creature transforms into a human child: Rachel's daughter, Babette. As thanks, Rachel says she knows Lori has come for Boone, but the Night Breed leader, Lylesburg, silences Rachel and refuses her entrance to Midian. Yes. Even though I gave it three stars, it is still worth listening to, even if just to be familiar with Barkers early works. Before concluding: It was Guy Eskapa, in the final paragraph of what many consider the seminal work on monsters, The Divided Eye, who, after listing every conceivable type of creature, went on to say: "I meet at dawn of every day the nemesis of those I have named, and am haunted by it all my waking hours, excepting those when drink or ecstasy drives it from me. I mean, of course, consciousness of self, which forbids both monstrous genius and the monstrous foolishness; which patrols at the limits of civility and wags its finger at excess; which says it knows beauty and will not be persuaded that my loins know better. I will kill it one day; and if that killing is self-murder, then Amen to that."

Just know that it is a fabulous book and my advice is to get yourself to a bookshop or library immediately to get a copy; like NOW. There’s no need to read this review – the book is much more important. Failing that watch the movie which was pretty good too. If you’re still reading,on your head be it… The new title did, however, reflect Clive's clear intention not to reproduce the book on screen but to make a subtle shift of focus within the filmed version. Weaveworld's story draws heavily on Clive's own childhood both in its Liverpool setting and in the character of its lead figure, Calhoun Mooney. Central to this story of memory and of the fragility of real meaning within the banalities of the world had been Clive's desire to subvert the traditional fairy story, "I wanted to write a novel in which the world of magic and the world of the real collided," he says, "the world of visions; the world of transformations; the world of William Blake colliding with the gritty, brutal reality of living in the later part of the twentieth century in a de-humanised, de-deified, de-mythologised world... I wanted to see what would survive." How Mr. Maximillian Bacchus' Travelling Circus Reached Cathay, and Entertained the Court of the Khan Called Kublai In Xanadu, How They Sought the Bearded Bird, and How, At Last, Angelo Was Lost" (2009)

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The Forbidden" (novelette), "The Madonna" (novelette), "Babel's Children" (novelette), "In the Flesh" (novella) With his skill as a visual storyteller, Barker masterfully conveys emotions, motivations and personalities effortlessly that plays out in HD, scene by scene in your mind. Clive Barker". www.facebook.com. Archived from the original on 25 February 2022 . Retrieved 15 November 2017. What I'd like to be able to get at is that, although the world of the Breed is a bit intimidating at first, it's a world you'd prefer to see survive at the end - and when it doesn't survive, your hope is that the re-establishment of that society in the second picture will succeed..." As masks are surrendered in Cabal, true selves emerge; new states are born or allowed to flourish. Transforming between states, the shape-shifters reveal different selves and this metamorphosis within tribes of 'others' recurs in Clive's work, playing a central part in his early plays, The Wolfman and Dog, in some of the later Books of Blood in which flesh and gender are seen to be entirely mutable and on into later works such as Imajica and the Books of The Art.

Spangler, Todd (4 May 2015). "NewFronts 2015: Machinima Announces 'RoboCop,' Clive Barker and Other Series". Variety . Retrieved 24 October 2019. The movie is the book deconstructed and then reconstructed in a different formulation," he notes, "so the movie is less about how two human beings come to be involved with the Nightbreed and more about the delirium of monsterdom. The book is about Boone and his journey. The movie is about the Nightbreed, this hidden tribe of mythological beings, shape-changers and strange people who come from the Old Country of the imagination." In 2019, Trace Thurman of Bloody Disgusting wrote that the Nightbreed as depicted in the film "represent queerness, or any fill-in-the-blank ' Other' you can think of." [12] Noting that, beyond writer-director Clive Barker being "one of the most famous queer horror artists of our time [...] The narrative itself is filled to the brim with queerness and serves as an allegory for intolerance. Can anyone watch Nightbreed and not automatically associate the titular creatures with queer people? They've been outcast by society and are deemed as dangerous by the 'normal' people. The climax of the film culminates in an assault on the Nightbreed's home base of Midian as the 'normies' would rather kill all of them as opposed to understand them." [12] That same year, Leigh Monson of Birth. Movies. Death. wrote that the director's cut of the film "places on display the full scope of a narrative that is a broad and potent allegory for the persecution of the queer community." [13]

In May 2015, Variety reported that Clive Barker was developing a television series adaptation of various creepypastas in partnership with Warner Brothers, to be called Clive Barker's Creepypastas, a feature arc based on Slender Man and Ben Drowned. [30] Barker was involved in a streaming service film adaptation of The Books of Blood in 2020, [31] and is developing a Nightbreed television series directed by Michael Dougherty and written by Josh Stolberg for SyFy. [32] [33] In April 2020, HBO was announced to be developing a Hellraiser television series that would serve as "an elevated continuation and expansion" of its mythology with Mark Verheiden and Michael Dougherty writing the series and David Gordon Green directing several episodes. Verheiden, Dougherty and Green will also be executive producing the series with Danny McBride, Jody Hill, Brandon James and Roy Lee of Vertigo Entertainment. [34] Visual art [ edit ] Chilling Adventures of Sabrina production designer on creating the terrifying occult world of Greendale". Firstpost. 19 November 2018 . Retrieved 7 April 2019.