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One of the things I love about making a movie from something I've written is the pleasure of being able to reinvent your imagination: you've done it once, you know the way it looked when you wrote it, and then you reinvent it entirely. All the walkways and stuff isn't the Midian described in the book - it's all very, very vaguely described. Nightbreed doesn't look the way I imagined it when I was writing Cabal. It turned out to be much larger in scale than I originally anticipated... For example, Baphomet isn't even described in the book. Baphomet is 'in flames,' and the technical problems of making that work on film made me think about it until I dreamt it. I literally dreamt it, and there he was. I think in the film he is actually better than I described him in the book! With his two colleagues - Dwayne and Eddie (!) - Boone's welding sequence was shot but later replaced by a simpler scene in which he wakes from dreaming the title sequence. No doubt some of the prisoners were guilty as charged, she thought: of eating human flesh, or of desiring it. But who could look with pleasure on the revenge her people were taking, with all its calculation and its care? The genius squandered on devices designed only to torture or cremate; the saviours discredited because their priests, barely able to hide smiles and erections, took their gospels for bludgeons?; the land tainted by atrocity; the minds the same?

Rather than dwelling on such losses - redemption and forgiveness, self-doubt and self-renewal - Clive sought to embrace the exotic possibilities conjured by the creation of a bizarre and enthralling world in both sound and vision, as he continues to explain, "What you gain, however, is two things: firstly, the music, which in the fantastique is very important as an indicator of feeling, and a way of sweeping people along; the other is the power of the image - you gain the ease of presenting a creature which turns into a little girl, and there is something immediately poignant about showing that little girl.The Wedding of Indigo Murphy To the Duke Lorenzo de Medici and How Angelo Was Discovered in an Orchard" (2009) When he was three, Barker witnessed the French skydiver Léo Valentin plummet to his death during a performance at an air show in Liverpool. [6] He later alluded to Valentin in many of his stories. [7] Theatrical work [ edit ] The Life of Death" (novelette), "How Spoilers Bleed" (novelette), "Twilight at the Towers" (novelette), "The Last Illusion" (novella), "On Jerusalem Street" Chet Williamson has the voice of an old time radio dramatist, and it ends up serving this story well. Initially, I wasn't sure if his square-jawed voice was the right one for this book. But Williamson's steady, no frills reading won me over in the end, providing a nice foil between the monsters and the monstrous.

He died in 1973 at the age of 101. He is reported to have greatly enjoyed going naked at this advanced age, saying he was at last looking fit to join "the other tribe." Culminating in a shot of Boone and Lori that echoes their representation in the Dog-headed man's mosaic, the ending neatly leaves the viewer where we began, in the continuing history of the Nightbreed. K. A. Laity, "Clive Barker" in: Richard Bleiler, ed. Supernatural Fiction Writers: Contemporary Fantasy and Horror. New York: Thomson/Gale, 2003, ISBN 0684312506.Weaveworld's story draws heavily on Clive's own childhood both in its Liverpool setting and in the character of its lead figure, Calhoun Mooney. Central to this story of memory and of the fragility of real meaning within the banalities of the world had been Clive's desire to subvert the traditional fairy story, "I wanted to write a novel in which the world of magic and the world of the real collided," he says, "the world of visions; the world of transformations; the world of William Blake colliding with the gritty, brutal reality of living in the later part of the twentieth century in a de-humanised, de-deified, de-mythologised world... I wanted to see what would survive."

Monstrousness,' if the word is being defined as a kind of moral negative, can reside in things as human as you and I. And great good-heartedness and the capability of full love and loyalty and devotion can reside in things that don't resemble us at all - as, for instance, they reside in our dogs. In other words, don't hate everything strange, because one day you might find it in yourself... There are several ways in which the footage that Clive filmed varied from its source novel as its author recognised the different demands of film and embraced the opportunity to favour different points of focus in the new medium. Michael, Dennis (5 November 1998). "The 'Gods and Monsters' of James Whale". CNN . Retrieved 13 May 2021. In her ears, the cries of the tortured and the dying mingled with the names they were being murdered for: demon, incubus, cannibal, sodomite, ghoul - Tony Bluto as Leroy Gomm, an overweight Nightbreed who has retractable tentacles coming out of his stomach.

Books of Blood: Volume One (1984), ISBN 9780425083895, collection of 1 short story and 5 novelettes:

The earliest screenplay draft of what would become Nightbreed was not written by Clive but did have his direct involvement and, while being a largely faithful adaptation of the novella, the text immediately establishes the need for a visual approach, rich in imagery, setting the title sequence with a romantic opening: Linking with the novella's roughly bookended vow of "I'll never leave you," promised by both Boone and Lori, Clive considers making these the opening words of the movie as he looks for the best way to give his lovers context. Using the Calgary skyline as a start point he first suggests an 'E.T. shot' where Boone, 'stops on a hill-road; looks down on the city.' The next version uses the skyline but brings the camera into the city, into Boone and Lori's apartment, giving us startling flashes of Boone's surreal hallucinations. Hoping instead for a visual motif that might better grow from the title sequence's creatures, Clive considers an exotic bird - maybe animals frozen in time in a photography exhibition - writing short sequences for Lori and Boone in Calgary Zoo, but he ultimately settles on a light to burn away the darkness of the night sky:Moonlight and Vines by Charles de Lint / Reave the Just and Other Tales by Stephen R. Donaldson (2000, tie)

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