![]() ![]() Hellraiser was very different to the Freddys and Jasons popular at the time. ![]() A strange sort of Faustian, Chekhovian, adult domestic drama about sexual obsession was the result – albeit with supernatural underpinnings, monsters and lots of blood. ![]() The million dollars he needed eventually came from Roger Corman’s New World production company. He wrote screenplays adapting two of those stories – Rawhead Rex and Underworld, both directed by George Pavlou – and was so unhappy with the results that he decided to make Hellraiser himself, adapting his own novella, The Hellbound Heart. Barker made short films during that period too, and then made a big splash with The Books Of Blood, published in six volumes between 19 ( The Forbidden kicks off book five). Rose may have written and directed the film – but it was based on a short story called The Forbidden, published in 1985, and written by creative force Clive Barker.īarker had started in experimental theatre in Liverpool in the 1970s, working with a rep company that included his school-friend Doug Bradley. In almost any other circumstance, you’d call the film Bernard Rose’s horror masterpiece… but another name looms larger. Candyman turned 30 years old this weekend. ![]()
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