Plus, what horror fan can ignore the schlock-fest that the Hellraiser series has degenerated into? I mean one of them was so bad it got an “Alan Smithee” credit for crying out loud. The very best horror novels rarely survive faithful adaptation to the silver screen. I won’t spoil the end but let’s just say it’s not what you expect of the movie, but what you should expect from the mind of Clive Barker.Īnd therein lies the rub. He stumbles through the warrens and eventually into the subway where he jumps a train only to find Vinnie Jones carefully dispatching a young woman.Įventually Kauffman and his disposable girlfriend get pulled into a conspiracy involving Mahogany that results in a final bloody showdown – and this is where most horror fans checked out. Ballard 'Bloody good fun.The movie follows Leon Kauffman, played by Bradley Cooper, as an aspiring photographer as he slums through New York, trying to capture the gritty realism of the darker side of Gotham. 'Outstanding.a powerful and fascinating writer with a brilliant imagination.' - J. 'Barker's eye is unblinking he drags out our terrors from the shadows and forces us to look upon them and despair or laugh with relief.' - The Washington Post

He creates a world where our biggest fears appear to be our own dreams.' - Boston Herald 'Mixing elements of horror, science fiction and surrealist literature, Barker's work reads like a cross between Stephen King and South American novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 'Clive Barker assaults our senses and our psyche, seeking not so much to tingle our spine as to snap it altogether.' - Los Angeles Times 'What Barker does in THE BOOKS OF BLOOD makes the rest of us look like we've been asleep for the last ten years. and the controlling forces behind it all.Ĭlive Barker's The Midnight Meat Train Special Definitive Edition brings the original story back with all-new material: a new afterword written by Clive Barker, seven color paintings based on the story by the author, a new introduction by Phil & Sarah Stokes, a foreword by the movie screenplay writer Jeff Buhler, the first complete commercial printing of the movie screenplay, never-before-seen photos, notes, sketches and more. One of these stories was 'The Midnight Meat Train' following one Leon Kaufman as he discovers the origins of a series of grizzly subway train murders in New York City. Literary eminences like Stephen King noticed early on the creativity and powerful prose throughout the Books of Blood, bringing Clive Barker's stories to the forefront of horror fiction. In 1984 the Books of Blood by Clive Barker were published and quickly gained a following worldwide.

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