The man deserves a thread fellow fiends!
Please discuss....
Love him? hate him?
Please discuss....
Love him? hate him?
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Can I go to the movies with you?I remember when the movie "Hellraiser" came out - I went to the Cabanawith some friends to see it because SK said "I have seen the future of horror..." and we were all psyched about it. I was a little let down. And then I tried to read Clive Barker when I was 18, and the Books of Blood thoroughly confused me - I couldn't follow them. I'm not saying he's not good, maybe I should give him another try as an adult. But we all thought Cujo, Carrie, Salems Lot, et al were waaayyyy better and more frightening than Hellraiser ever thought about being.if your town didn't have one: a theatre with 'cabanas' in the walls -you could smoke whatever your pleasure and drink and fool around, and buzz in some delivery
I think they closed that place down after the 80s. Not that I would ever do it, but some people brought bongs in there and did unspeakable things.Can I go to the movies with you?
Well played madam. Well played.I think they closed that place down after the 80s. Not that I would ever do it, but some people brought bongs in there and did unspeakable things.
It was dreadful.ly fun
I think I'll name today "fun with spoilers" day.
Cabal is very good. His imagination is second only to King's. And his style is at times highly refined, literary. For example, for "slaughterhouse," he will write "abattoir."
At one time he was considered the "future of horror." Coincidentally, bookworms destroyed my copy of The Books of Blood.
I don't think I've ever read that one, might check it out....Imajica, is one I enjoyed-and it shares a concept with the DT series....
...if'n ya needs any hep wid the beeg werds...lemee noe.....I don't think I've ever read that one, might check it out.
Nah, sounding them out is half the fun...if'n ya needs any hep wid the beeg werds...lemee noe.....
...I gots an extra pointy finger....Nah, sounding them out is half the fun
You keep that extra pointy finger to yourself mister!!!...I gots an extra pointy finger....
The Damnation Game is one in my to read pile. I've heard good things!Devoured everything Clive wrote up to around Imajica. He went alittle too much into fantasy for my liking. I thought 'Hellraiser' was one of those films that really pushed the envelope. I thought it was better than the story it was based on and I liked the story! His story 'In The Hills, The Cities' is a mind-blowing classic. His novel The Damnation Game is my favorite. He started getting a bit too 'high-falutin' (and fantasy driven) with his writing after a while so I stopped reading him.