And it was relatively easy to get somebody to throw a modest amount of money at you to make a picture. I hated them so much and that was a time-this was the middle-to-late '80s-when the video revolution was happening and there were a lot of people making a lot of really low-budget horror movies.
I had so disliked the early movies, the two movies- Transmutations and Rawhead Rex. IGN For Men: Yeah, he wrote and directed Looker, too, as well as Runaway, and Westworld.Ĭlive Barker: Well I fell into it, to be perfectly honest, as an act of self-defense. IGN For Men: Actually more than three.there's Coma, which was based on Robin Cook's book, but Crichton wrote the screenplay and directed the film.Ĭlive Barker: Right, he did Coma, he did The Great Train Robbery with Sean Connery, and did he also do Looker? IGN For Men: How did you initially fall into the director's chair? I mean the only other modern day, ultra popular author I can think of who has written and directed at least three films is Michael.Ĭlive Barker: Michael Crichton, right. What follows is Part 1 of a 2-part interview with Clive Barker, the man whom Stephen King once referred to as 'the future of horror.' While that phrase may still ring with some truth, Clive also reveals himself to be more than just a creator of horror fiction, but rather a master of the fantastique. Few men who have mastered as many of the arts as Clive Barker would be so humble. When I casually referred to Clive as a renaissance man, he laughed, then immediately remarked how that moniker was rather pretentious. While those two works would have been enough to quell most artist's desires, Barker has continued to crank out imaginative fiction, work on films, delve into the world of art (both sketches and paintings), and erotica. Barker next subjected the American movie going public to his inter-dementia flesh reconfigurations in the now classic horror film Hellraiser. Barker exploded onto the America literary market some 15 years ago with his exotic, viscerally gripping three volume set of the Books of Blood.
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