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Clive Barker is an English writer, director, and visual artist, best known for his works in the genres of horror and dark fantasy. He created the Hellraiser and Candyman franchises, and also wrote and produced other movies such as Nightbreed, Books of Blood, and Dread.
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Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English novelist who came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories, the Books of Blood, which established him as a leading horror writer. He has since written many novels and other works.
His epic novels, The great and secret show, Weaveworld, Imajica... have not made it to the big screen, but a fair number of his tales in the Books of blood have, as well as a couple of his shorter novellas and original stories. Here's a list of the best adaptations of Barker's world in the movies.
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- Hellraiser (1987) Written, directed, and adapted by Clive Barker from his 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart. Clive Barker's directorial debut may very well be the best body-horror film ever made, in part because it is so consistently freakish in more ways than one.
- Nightbreed: The Director's Cut (1990) Written, directed, and adapted by Clive Barker from his 1988 novella Cabal. Aaron Boone (Craig Sheffer) finds himself under the care of the serial-murdering Dr. Decker (one David Cronenberg), who convinces Aaron that he is in fact the murderer and slips him a secret dose of LSD so that he will turn himself in to the authorities.
- Candyman (1992) Based on Clive Barker's short story "The Forbidden," from Books of Blood: Volume Five (a.k.a. In the Flesh) Bernard Rose's elegant and haunting original (aided by Phillip Glass' impeccable gothic score) continues to out-measure its successors in terms of quality by some distance.
- The Midnight Meat Train (2008) Produced by Clive Barker and adapted from his short story of the same name from Books of Blood: Volume One. Bradley Cooper stars as Leon, an inner-city photographer who one night saves a young woman from a group of toughs on a subway platform.
28 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Hellraiser: Hellworld. 2005 1h 31m R. 4.2 (13K) Rate. Video. Gamers playing a MMORPG based on the "Hellraiser" films find their lives endangered after being invited to a rave, the host of which intends to show them the truth behind the Cenobite mythos.
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