Clive Barker

A Hellraiser Reboot Is Coming From Batman and Superman Writer David S. Goyer

David S. Goyer has already helped reboot Batman and Superman. Next, he’ll do the same for Pinhead. Hellraiser rises, anyone? Spyglass Media Group just announced it has hired Goyer to produce and write the story for a “loyal, yet evolved reimagining” of Hellraiser, the classic 1987 horror film from Clive Barker about a mysterious puzzle…

Movies Germain Lussier May 6

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’s Bewitching Art Came Courtesy of Hellraiser’s Clive Barker

Hail Satan! Netflix’s The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is full of nods to famous horror works like Suspiria and Hellraiser through its creatively terrifying set design, but it’s not limited to mere tributes. Clive Barker, the horror visionary behind Hellraiser and Candyman, has contributed over 150 paintings to grace the walls of Greendale’s bewitching academy.…

io9 Beth Elderkin Oct 1

Syfy is Bringing Clive Barker’s Horror to Television With Nightbreed

Clive Barker is known for his unusual approach to horror: violent, imaginative, sexual, and utterly engrossing. Now, Deadline reports that Clive Barker and Syfy are working together to adapt Nightbreed, a 1990 Barker film, to television. The story, based on Barker’s short story collection Cabal, is about a world where humans persecute monsters, following an…

Television Julie Muncy Jun 23

Fight Club Author Chuck Palahniuk Has the Best Clive Barker Story

Legendary writer Chuck Palahniuk is known for works like Fight Club, Choke, and Invisible Monsters. But his latest long-form fiction is perhaps one of his strangest, wise: a novella that’s also a coloring book. It’s a tale as darkly humorous as an anecdote Palahniuk has of another beloved writer, horror maestro Clive Barker. In celebration…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Nov 14

How Does The Scarlet Gospels Stack Up To Clive Barker’s Horror Classics?

Sometimes, making a name for yourself, whether in Hell or in writing, can be a double edged sword. Sure, there’s all that warm and fuzzy “going-where-everybody-knows-your-name” type stuff.. But along with the good comes the not so good. Or perhaps more accurately, what comes with success is the increasing pressure of meeting and exceeding expectations…

Movies Jason Stewart Aug 7

Clive Barker, Bob Orci, And RoboCop Are All Getting New Web Series

Online urban legends like Jeff the Killer, theSlender Man and Ben Drowned are all getting their own web series thanks to horror guru Clive Barker! Plus there’s new a new season of Bruce Timm’s Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles to get excited about! Here’s what we know. Machinima held their own “newfronts” presentation today…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 4

The Hellraiser Reboot Will Focus On The Creator Of Pinhead’s Box

Clive Barker is rebooting his classic horror series Hellraiser, and now we finally have an idea what this new series will center around. In a long, wonderful interview with Entertainment Weekly about the Blu-Ray release of Nightbreed, Barker spilled the beans on his idea for a new, new Hellraiser (which Barker is writing himself): “I…

io9 Meredith Woerner Nov 4

All The Weirdest Secrets You Never Knew About Clive Barker’s Hellraiser

Hellraiser was made for under $1 million, but wound up becoming one of the most significant horror movies of all time. And yet, the more you learn about this film’s production, the more of a miracle it seems. Here are all the strangest facts you need to know about the making of Hellraiser. Clive Barker…

io9 Abhimanyu Das and Charlie Jane Anders Oct 24

Clive Barker’s Nightbreed Is Getting Turned Into A TV Series

Remember Nightbreed,the totally insane Clive Barker monster movie centered around a pack of wonderfully gruesome monsters living under a cemetery? Oh, and the bad guy was played by David Cronenberg! Well, Barker and friends want to turn Nightbreed the movie into a TV series. Excellent. Barker has been talking about the return of Nightbreed for…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 3

They’ll Let Anybody Into the Justice League Nowadays

DC’s “Forever Evil” mega-event finally comes to a close tomorrow, Peter Parker is back to being screwed as the Amazing Spider-Man, the TMNT are now 30-somethings, and meet the plumber who must save the world but isn’t named Mario, all in this week’s comics! New Issues Dark Horse: • Star Wars: Darth Maul: Son of…

io9 Rob Bricken May 20

Dear Clive Barker, please give Hellraiser to this guy immediately

Clive Barker has been hired to pen a new Hellraiser movie. But this might a shame, because British-born, LA-based director Mike Le Han has created this short video for a theoretical Hellraiser reboot, and it’s amazing — and horrifying. A lot of it is due to Paul Gerrard, the concept artist and production designer (who…

Movies Rob Bricken Dec 10

Clive Barker is returning to Hellraiser… again

Hellraiser has been trying to come back from the dead for years. But now that Clive Barker has signed on to reboot the whole series will the franchise find new life? Or should Dimension Films just stop trying to make Hellraiser happen? Original writer and director Clive Barker announced on his Facebook that he is…

Movies Meredith Woerner Oct 25

The 15 Greatest McFarlane Action Figures of All Time

There were plenty of toys for collectors in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s, but if you wanted the best toys, you turned to McFarlane. The founder of Image and creator of Spawn, decided to make his own toy company in 1994 and the results were nothing short of spectacular…. for a while, at least.…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken Apr 16

Clive Barker gets murdery with his own version of Edward Gorey’s Gashlycrumb Tinies

Edward Gorey’s alphabetical poem of child death, The Gashycrumb Tinies is a masterpiece of the macabre, and we’ve seen all sorts of reinterpretations, most recently in Doctor Who and Game of Thrones-themed death rhymes. Horror writer Clive Barker has decided to write his own tribute to Gorey’s poem, which at first seems a straight homage,…

io9 Lauren Davis Jan 19

Hellraiser concept art shows the many visions of Pinhead

Dimension Films has been trying to get a Hellraiser reboot up and running for ages, and various creative teams have apparently been pitching their own visual takes on the material. Shocktillyoudrop has featured three different sets of concept art in the past year — including the above vision by Paul Gerrard (Battle: Los Angeles) created…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Aug 6

Bradley Cooper wasn’t using his tongue for anything anyway

Add Midnight Meat Train to the list of movies that you think are just slasher movies, but actually turn out to be science-fictional. The other day, we shared a totally insane clip from Triangle — thanks to James for directing us to the Midnight Meat Train as our next stop. https://gizmodo.com/the-most-horrifying-crawling-over-a-pile-of-your-dead-5850708 Yes, it’s a whole…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Oct 19

Pinhead makes a baby in the demented new Hellraiser trailer

Watch the trailer for the ninth — yes that’s right, the ninth — addition to the Hellraiser horror movie series, titled Hellraiser: Revelations. Is this one better than the last few? Umm… we’ll let you judge for yourself. Pinhead is back and in his chamber of soulless delights, he thought he had two willing participants…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 23

Drive Angry director explains why Satan’s right-hand man is an accountant

Ever since we saw the gunfight sex scene from Nic Cage’s bat-out-of-hell-screwing-shooting-vengeance flick Drive Angry, we’ve wanted to know more. Now the director Patrick Lussier is cracking open Nic Cage’s own personal Hell for us. And chatting about the Hellraiser-reboot. http://io9.com/5738863/watch-nic-cage-have-gunfight-sex-in-this-insane-drive-angry-clip-%5Bnsfw%5D Nic Cage’s character seems to fit into that “You’re not supposed to like him,…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jan 27

Your First Peek At Clive Barker’s Latest 3-D Project

Just in time for the spookiest holiday of the year, this Wednesday sees the release of Clive Barker’s Seduth 3-D, a brand new comic bringing Barker’s brand of horror up close and personal. Here’s a preview of what to expect. IDW’s official solicitation for the project goes a little something like this: Master of Horror…

io9 Graeme McMillan Oct 12

Clive Barker’s Latest Trailer Uses Your Skin As Twitter For Dead People

The trailer for the Book Of Blood shows you what happens when you become the information superhighway for the dead. True to Barker form, it looks like a nice bloody mess. Based on the short stories “On Jerusalem Street” and “The Book of Blood,” the movie is about a fake psychic who’s hired to check…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jul 9

A Hellraiser Reboot Is Coming From Batman and Superman Writer David S. Goyer

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’s Bewitching Art Came Courtesy of Hellraiser’s Clive Barker

Syfy is Bringing Clive Barker’s Horror to Television With Nightbreed

Fight Club Author Chuck Palahniuk Has the Best Clive Barker Story

How Does The Scarlet Gospels Stack Up To Clive Barker’s Horror Classics?

Clive Barker, Bob Orci, And RoboCop Are All Getting New Web Series

The Hellraiser Reboot Will Focus On The Creator Of Pinhead’s Box

All The Weirdest Secrets You Never Knew About Clive Barker’s Hellraiser

Clive Barker’s Nightbreed Is Getting Turned Into A TV Series

They’ll Let Anybody Into the Justice League Nowadays

Dear Clive Barker, please give Hellraiser to this guy immediately

Clive Barker is returning to Hellraiser… again

The 15 Greatest McFarlane Action Figures of All Time

Clive Barker gets murdery with his own version of Edward Gorey’s Gashlycrumb Tinies

Hellraiser concept art shows the many visions of Pinhead

Bradley Cooper wasn’t using his tongue for anything anyway

Pinhead makes a baby in the demented new Hellraiser trailer

Drive Angry director explains why Satan’s right-hand man is an accountant

Your First Peek At Clive Barker’s Latest 3-D Project

Clive Barker’s Latest Trailer Uses Your Skin As Twitter For Dead People

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