#books of blood

[stimtickle]

#hellraiser #pinhead #doug bradley #clive barker #cenobite #books of blood

[borninwinter81]

I've been rediscovering my love for Clive Barker this week due to finally managing to see The Ultimate Cabal Cut of Nightbreed (some kind soul has uploaded it to YouTube) and then re-reading Cabal, the book it was based on.

Cabal is amongst my favourite books ever written (though as a bibliophile that list is extremely long!) and one of my favourite movies. I originally saw it in the early 90s when I was probably far too young, and read the book not long after.

I backed the Occupy Midian campaign in 2012 when the lost footage was being searched for and reintegrated into the movie, and I attended a screening of one of the early edits where I met Nicholas Vince and Simon Bamford (Kinski and Ohnaka in Nightbreed, but better known as two of the Cenobites from Hellraiser). This led to the eventual DVD/Blu-ray release of The Directors Cut (which I got a physical copy of) and then The Ultimate Cabal Cut (which I didn’t, and which I haven't seen until now).

It's an oversimplification to call Barker's work horror, especially in Cabal/Nightbreed - this was the mistake the production company made when originally editing and marketing it.

Clive Barker's vision shows us the beauty of the weird, the macabre, the abnormal, and the supernatural, and the true horror in his work comes from the "normal".

In Cabal/Nightbreed his monsters are not evil, they're simply different - undead, mutants and supernatural beings, a metaphor for anyone who has ever felt othered by society. Midian is a place where they can live safely with no fear or judgement. The evil characters are "naturals", humans who hate and fear the monsters for being different even though they pose no threat, and ultimately try to destroy them.

As a member of the LGBT community it's easy to see where Barker's motivation for this metaphor came from, but it could equally apply to just about anyone who feels like they don't fit in. Certainly as a lonely, bullied, weird child when I first read/saw it, who then grew up into a reasonably weird adult, I'd love for the monsters to come and take me away to Midian.

Anyone seeing this who isn't familiar with the book/movie, I'd urge you to look them up, as well as others by Barker. More of my favourites by him are Imajica, Abarat and of course The Hellbound Heart, filmed as Hellraiser. The Forbidden from short story anthology The Books of Blood was also filmed as Candyman.

Below I've linked The Cabal Cut of Nightbreed. Even if you know and love the original theatrical release I'd still urge you to watch this (quick as you can in case its removed due to copyright!).

In addition to doubling the movie length from 1 hour 40 mins to 3 hours 20 mins, a number of the actors voices have been re-recorded as they were overdubbed in the theatrical version for some reason, notably those of Rachel, and Lylesberg, played by Doug Bradley. It was a crime to remove that man's beautiful voice and wonderful to hear it back where its meant to be.

Also, rather than being a standard horror movie heroine who seems to be there only to scream and be rescued, in this version Lori comes across as much stronger and more well-rounded character.

As it says in the opening text, although much of the footage was of good quality there are some sections where all they had available were degraded VHS tapes, some of which were without audio. This means the editing is also a little clunky in places. However the makers of this version wanted to include everything they possibly could in order to bring it in line with the original shooting script and Clive Barker's epic vision for the piece.

#clive barker #Cabal #nightbreed #gay author #queer author #queer horror #lgbt horror #lgbt author #hellraiser #books of blood #the hellbound heart #abarat #imajica #dark fantasy #doug bradley #Nicholas vince #Simon Bamford #candyman #horror movies #horror films #horror fiction #books and reading #horror novel

[omercifulheaves]

Japanese editions of Clive Barker's Books of Blood

Edit: Added the last two Art by Aoi Fuijimoto

#clive barker #books of blood #aoi fujimoto

[weirdlookindog]

Clive Barker - Books of Blood 1-6 Original Cover art

#clive barker #books of blood #cover art #painting #horror art

[evileldestdaughter]

midnight meat train the short story is suspenseful, thrilling, leaves you wondering 'oh my god how can this happen?!'

midnight meat train the movie (2008) is so boring and i hope bradley cooper gets butchered on a train

#clive barker #the secret ingredient is clive barker #midnight meat train #books of blood

[pantalonesdezebra]

so...i did a quick pin up pinhead

#pinhead #hellraiser #horror show #horror movies #terror #classic horror #sin #nightmare in elm street #halloween #halloween movie #clive barker #books of blood #80s #candyman #horror sketch

[vonnegutcunt]

#:) #clive barker #books of blood #uncredited art moment

[bagofbonesmp3]

"The earth was gone from beneath him. He was a hitchhiker with a god: the mere life he had left was nothing to him now, or ever. He would live with this thing, yes, he would live with it - seeing it and seeing it and eating it with his eyes until he died of sheer gluttony. He screamed and howled and swung on the ropes, drinking up his triumph. Below, far below, he glimpsed Judd's body, curled up pale on the dark ground, irretrievable. Love and life and sanity were gone, gone like the memory of his name, or his sex, or his ambition. It all meant nothing. Nothing at all."

– Clive Barker, In the Hills, the Cities

#serve #anyways read books of blood NOW #clive barker #books of blood

[workmantwerkman]

she was liquid; a boundless sea in a single body, a deluge in a small room, and I will gladly drown in her, if she grants me the chance.

-Clive Barker, Books of Blood Volume II, Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament

#personal #quote #clive barker #books of blood

[el-im]

#books of blood #library

[soimarriedahorrorfan]

In this months Crossing the Stream we are looking at Books of Blood from 2020, the second crack at Adapting the works of Clive Barker and his famous short story collections. This one was a direct to Hulu film and our expectations were set to the appropriate level, but...well...yeah.

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#horror podcast #horror review #married podcast #so i married a horror fan #soimarriedahorrorfan #horror #spotify #crossing the streams #books of blood

[brokehorrorfan]

Rucking Fotten has a Japanese-inspired Nightbreed design on T-shirts ($27) and long sleeves ($37) plus sweatpants ($55; pictured below). They’re available now through Sunday, October 23, and are expected to ship in 6-8 weeks.

#nightbreed #clive barker #david cronenberg #horror #90s horror #1990s horror #rucking fotten #shirt #gift #hellraiser #doug bradley #cabal #craig sheffer #anne bobby #books of blood

[thegloomygremlin]

October's Patreon Patterns 🩸🎃👻

I wanted to capture the duality of the Halloween season - the cute little pumpkins & ghosties, and the bloody, scary & horny horror.

I first read Clive Barker's The Thief of Always & Abarat books as a kid, so picking up Coldheart Canyon as a teen was extra shocking. Barker is an expert in grounding fanatical horror to the real world, which imo makes it much scarier. I picked up his Books of Blood for the first time this year, and the minute I read the opening I knew I had to stitch it!

On the other hand, adorable seasonal sugar cookies! I have a lot of food allergies, so it's rare that I can actually have a premade cookie dough. These are one of the only ones I can have, which makes them extra special to me. I'm so heartbroken that they're sold out literally everywhere, but at least I could "make" some myself. They should also fit on the round wooden cross stitch blanks to use as ornaments too!

Join at the $5 or $7 tier for access to Books of Blood until November 5th, and the Halloween cookies until November 13th 🖤

#cross stitch #cross stitch pattern #modern cross stitch #Clive barker #books of blood #horror art #Halloween #Halloween diy #Halloween cookies #goth aesthetic #gothcore #counted cross stitch #subversive cross stitch #patreon artist #october vibes #halloween cross stitch #halloween crafts

[omercifulheaves]

Ad for an unproduced comic adaptation of Clive Barker’s story Rawhead Rex by Stephen R. Bissette.

#comics #rawhead rex #clive barker #stephen r. bissette #books of blood #arcane comix

[poisonandpages]

Short story horror anthologies are actually such a good antidote to a reading slump

#Nightshift #Books of Blood #The Monsters We Forgot

[readingwonderer]

We are all our own graveyards I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks to the lives that we lived, and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.

Clive Barker, in the introduction of Books of Blood: Volume One to Three.

#Clive Barker #Quote #Books of Blood #psyche expeditions #struggling existence