Poetry of Suffering – Clive Barker in cinema

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All fiery, still New Year’s greetings, on the Stopgamov waves found in touch with the desire to write Imelman. We are accustomed to the fact that famous writers most often realize themselves in the field of cinema as screenwriters, or the rightrships of these same scenarios and try not to climb into such a complex and multifaceted production process of the Hollywood machine of funny pictures. If they begin to climb into it intensely, then most often nothing good comes out, remember at least Stephen King, with his directorial debut about live trucks or Norman Meyler, with his “cool guys do not dance” – a classic of bad cinema. But there are reverse examples, about one of which I will tell you. I will tell you about a person who not only gained the cult status in the writer’s field, but also shot the brightest paintings of his time, which to this day are completely deservedly considered vivid and original work. The name of this person is Klive Barker.

The fact that I watched everything that was shot according to the works is clear who. Well, almost everything, I missed one little thing, but it simply cannot be found, because they were lost in a whirlpool of times.

Chuvaki, honestly, wanted to meet the standard dimensions, but even it rushed and, in the end, the whole thing has grown to not the most decent sizes in society. There was an idea to divide into two parts, but I could not competently divide, so somehow. In general, initially there were even more material (all films under the spoilers were considered in all possible details), but I circled here and there, so that it does not look like a very huge reading.

Clive Barker in cinema

We will begin, of course, somewhat from afar, or rather with a small biographical reference, because it requires tradition. Clive Barker was born at one in the morning on October 5, 1952 in Liverpool, not far from the sung by the legendary “The Beatles” Street Penny Lane, in the family of painter Joan Ruby and agent for a set of staff Leonard Barker. Quite funny, but Barker studied at the Banking School, which John Lennon also visited. While still a schoolboy, Clive wrote various stories, articles and created real theatrical troupees in order to give free rein to his creative undertakings.

It’s funny, but quite a lot connected with Clive Barker Beaters if you think

We will not unravel the biography, and we will move on to the exploits of Barker in the field of cinema. In 1973, Clive was shooting his first film “Salome”, his friends at school were involved as actors and film crew – including This is a surprise Dag Bradley, who later will become the legendary performer of the role of Pinhad, in you yourself know which film (and if you do not know, then it should be, comrades).

It is already noticeable from the very first short film that Barker gravitates to the horror, and to Horror, who scares not with terrible faces throughout the screen, but rather the surrealism of what is happening, because this is a whole thing to even catch up. A year later, Clive, with the same people, will create the theater group “The Dog Company”, performing the plays of the Gran-Gignol genre (Parisian Horror Theater, one of the ancestors and pioneers of the Horror genre) rather provocative detention, that is, the fallen women, debauchery and drugs. He will return to the world of cinema in 1978, when a second film shot by Clive Barker and his friends will appear – “Forbidden”. Among its participants, in addition to Dag Bradley, Peter Atkins appeared, the future author of the script for several continuations of the “rebel”.

“Forbidden”, in good ear, the inseparable part of his past work is all the same surrealist scenes filled with obscure images and atmosphere of mystery, rather not a film, but a nightmare, terrible and incomprehensible. Further, for a long 11 years, Clive does not apply to cinema, but does very, very many interesting things. Already in 1981, he designed the Face Dances album of The Who and proceeds to write his first book – a cycle of stories “Book Books”, of which six pieces were published at the time of 1985. “Book Books” are considered one of the main works of the Genre of the Raiderpank, which suggests a grotesque and extremely naturalistic content, which Barker had more than enough. Even, for a second, Stephen King recognizes the young writer, saying that the guy even might even in the art of terrible. And by that time, filmmakers became interested in them. In 1985, the first film appeared according to the scenario of the writer gaining popularity – “Underground World”, and then the second, both shot by the same director George Pavlov.

But there are no them, for I did not find this series, but there is an opinion that it is also the bottom.(

Underground world (Underworld – 1985);The king of evil (Rawhead Rex – 1985)

How, what and why: It makes no sense to consider films separately, for that the first, that the second is frank niocin. If more – disgustingly miserable representatives of Tresh’s eighties. Everything is very cheap, everything is very angry, they also starred at the same time, which was far from the best of. Both films claim a certain value, for there are lovers of such ancient garbage, but I’m definitely not a fan of this, so with a calm soul I can blame these pictures. In fact, we have muddy, sometimes falling into insanity, badly played kinchiki about completely do not amaze the imagination of the debauchery-narcotic, by which you can’t say right away that Clive Barker applied them to them. The only reason to check is rather funny special effects, because animatronics, dolls, interesting makeup, all things, otherwise – even being a hard -rooted fan of Barker, you should not take on these films.

I think it is not necessary to explain that the first call to the shores of the cinema Klive was very, very unhappy. Very, very. And very. And very, very. In general, so very much that I decided to take the whole thing in my seemingly inept hands. Having collected one million dollars on the susks, taking Dag Bradley in the armful of his friend, in 1987 he rolled out a film that clearly proves the old truth-you want to do something well, do it yourself.

In order not to jump from the film to the film, because there were so many continuations that you can go astray, here all parts of the cycle will be considered right here.

The first part is ten years old, this is itself, but my favorite part is the fifth, for the coolest noir detective in the universe. Sorry.(

Rushed from hell (Hellraiser – from 1987 – until it is not clear when the rebut made)

What, how, why, why have you not yet looked: To some extent «rebel from hell» is a unique franchise. Unique at least because it starts to slide, attention, only from the sixth part, and this is not for you in the well of the childbearing organs to poke. Klive Barker launched a franchise with his indie project, which to this day looks great and reviewed. But let’s go to the point. What is a «rebel from hell»? This This is a turn The cycle of paintings filmed from the novel by the barker “Doomed to hell”, which tells about the casket of Lemarshan-a mystery cube that can give unearthly pleasure if you solve this mystery. Noooo, if you still solve the riddle, then terrible demons will come out of the casket, who have quite interesting ideas about pleasures, for example, they think that you will get a sea of ​​pleasure from the devouring of your carcass with some kind of obscurantist or from the tearing of your skin. Actually, the plots of all films of the cycle are spinning around the misfortunes of excessively zealous lovers of mysterious boxes with a surprise. The uniqueness of this whole case lies in the setting. Barker never hid that inspiration to the design of monsters, and indeed the concept of this very “pleasure”, he drew from the culture of BDSM. The skin, chains, the dogma “Pain is pleasure”, all this Barker hyperbolized to the maximum, giving us the brightest villain from the pantheon of cult badges-the Demon Pinhad, who is the whole hellish gang under the coden name “Synobites” and refuels.

As they say «Come to Daddy»

The first film surprised a lot in due time. Under the larva of the next meat horror, which at that time came out in bucks, there was a real rally-triller, managing to hit especially impressionable persons so far. For a miserable million dollars, Klave Barker removed far from the simplest in terms of thinking of a sight, because despite the huge amount of meat, blood and tin, the film unobtrusively sets the viewer of the question on the topic of what our human nature and the desire to realize our darker desires sometimes bring us to life. Well, about the nastiness of people, too, a few words were said. But again – at the head of the setting table. Barker in Book Books almost always turned the same technique – put an ordinary person in the circumstances of contact with the world of evil. An absolutely standard ordinary guy opened the veil of the world of supernatural and mysterious, hidden from human eyes, with most often deplorable results for himself, because Clive is holy believed that after death we will only expect pain and suffering. And here we have exactly the same thing – ordinary people discover the world of hays, in fact, the real hell with Blackjack and the Putans. It seems to be simple, but thanks to the details and competent disclosure of the characters, it is very exciting. In fact, without really showing anything from the Senobit world, Barker gives exactly the amount of information about them and their place of residence that the testiculas involuntarily compressed, because having only a couple of minutes of the screen time, the synobites catch an epic amount of horror, because the makeup is so excellent that local demons can go to your nightmares (I was inarly intimidated by my teeth, who was crazy with teeth.obscurantist, for example). The buddy of Barker Dag Bradley played an important role in this. His Pinhad is stunned by what kind of terrible type, wading, again, at a minimum of time on the screen, completely capture the audience, exuding the behavior, gestures and even a look more infernal evil than all these Jason and T -shirts Myers for a bunch of films. Well, the immortal “Come to Daddy” in the piggy bank, because it diverged into quote. Also, with a minimum of funds, Barker manages to show very incentive special effects, which even now very much, and sometimes they can make you shrink in a chair and press your native tea with cookies to your chest, because some scenes look painfully naturalistically. And we eventually have a small genre masterpiece, which is still fresh. You didn’t watch it? Chuvaaaaaaaaaaak, this is a jamb, seriously. You watched him? I am proud.

There he was burned on the right gave me a couple of sleepless nights during the time of violent youth

It was a huge success. The picture about a million green pictures collected as much as fourteen. And let this be a rather modest amount, but the film itself received a cult status and launched a car to squeeze the butterfly, which included films, comics, books, toys and everything that is possible. The critics grumbled, because bloodless and generally blood, guts, but basically reacted to the debut of the celebrity of the writer favorably, admitting that it was creatively, boldly and generally after Stephen King no one good from writers in the director’s chair. Therefore, the sequel has become a matter of time. Exactly a year later we received “rebels from hell 2”, which … turned out to be quite at the level of the first picture! The sequel was made on the principle of «more, bloodiest, larger». Synobites, in the last film, the former pleasant cherry on the cake, now, in fact, have become a cake, because there are many of them, they say more, they make tin harder and generally divorced the screenshot on the screen to the delight of fans. Dag Bradley, having received more screen time, tears and swords, showing that Pinhad has not just become a cult villain. The main thing is that the sequel deepened the mythology of the original, allowing us to look at the abode of the synobites (quite impressive with its surrealism) and revealing a couple of interesting facts from the life of the employees of the hook and skin. Klava Barker was replaced by Tony Randel on the directorial chair, who in the future removed the cult “ticks” horror in Russia and he did what he had to – did not spoil and correctly supplemented the ideas of the original with interesting chips. Yes, some hints of thinking have disappeared, giving way to visionary madness and an action, but this does not interfere with any pleasure from the film. In fact, the sequel continues the story of the heroine of the first part to display Guano, so it is worth watching them immediately in order to evaluate a completely finished story.

The sequel did not lose a gram of horror, by the way

And then there was a tricel. In general, until the sixth part of the “rebel” was very lucky with the directors, because people were definitely talented and knowledgeable for what the audience loves the franchise. The tricel sat down to shoot Anthony Hikox, the legendary director of the horror, who gave us several iconic horror horror and safely rolled up on the bottom in violent two thousandths. But in 1992, his gunpowder had not yet been shot, and Hikox gave out quite a watching tricel. When viewing the third part, to get maximum pleasure, you need to understand that there is meat at the forefront. Even meat. The plot “Hell on Earth” has references to the past parts, but basically tells her own story – Joeie’s journalist, who is trying to solve the secret of the lepmarshan box, and then stop the evil evil. The story here is very simple, as schematic and standard as possible, but it’s not worth watching it, actually. Watch it is worth for the sake of an overwhelming amount of action and an insanely colorful visual. The action here is meat, and also the original – people die in packs, filling the floor, walls and screen with liters of blood, but they are always interested in the scenery and with fiction, one scene in a nightclub is worth it, and the battle of police with synobits even makes you clap your hands, because fiercely appropriate. Synobites here are completely for every taste and color. There are many of them, they are different, everyone manages to remember and gets his five minutes of feast, the designers definitely jumped above their heads. So – quite a worthy continuation, let it and replaced the course towards the slasher, but did not lose a gram of color and identity. Let the plot here be simple as two kopecks, fans of meat, tin and Mochilov will not leave disappointed. A simple but bright and memorable film.

Cosplay Khan Solo was a success

Further … then it https://nonukgamblingsites.co.uk/ was interesting. The tricel was very well gathered at the box office, but the producers of the franchise wanted more. Seeing that the people are more falling for meat and dismemberment, they wanted a fourth part in the way that Barker completely did not agree with, for he wanted to continue to bend the surreal horror line and generally catch up with the atmosphere, and not to cook the stupid slasher. Kevin Yager, director of the fourth part, was completely on the side of Barker. His plans were Napoleonic – to reveal the secret of creating a casket, synobites and generally put all the cards on the table, giving out the brightest franchise film. And at first everything was so. Yager shot about half the material, a trailer was made from it and shown to knowledgeable people. Knowledgeable people did not appreciate, for the almost philosophical parable about the fall of Lemarshan in the abysses was brewing, a kind of tougher “Dorian Gray” with dramas and synobites. Accordingly, Barker was neatly kicked out, so that they did not climb with their visions of the film, and the Yager wanted to force the script to shoot, but that is also a difficult guy and waved a pen, abandoning his brainchild, so Alan Smithi proudly flaunts in the “Director” column, and whoever dwells the film – for certain, it is certainly unknown. And in 1996 the film was still rolled to the public. What happened? It turned out surprisingly tolerably.

It is worth making a reservation – tolerable, but nothing more. The film still looks very interesting, because instead of an ordinary plot, we here have several stories of the struggle of Lemarshan and his descendants with our creation, in different times and under different circumstances. Yes, only all together is not very joined. After watching, I had the feeling that I looked at several thematic short films, some kind of cast -haired descendant of the descendant of Lemarshan from the distant future (then it was fashionable to rivet the continuation of the cult horors in space). Definitely interestingly made, but the farther, the more phimos all this looked. If the misfortunes of Lemarshan himself looked surprisingly fresh and interesting, then the adventures of his descendants looked with an increasingly fading interest, the segment in space and at all some kind of badnovkusia, causing the feeling that they turned on a completely different film, let them even with a couple of spectacular scenes, because the cosmic special forces are dull, they will die like flies, and they carry it in a nonsense.the mandatory order is scattered around the ship in order to ingloriously measure at the hands of unexpectedly sinobites. And as a result, we have an unrealized potential to create an outstanding continuation, an interesting, but torn and uneven film. But stubborn rumors still go that the original version of the film is somewhere. Where – no one knows. But there is.

These intriguing muzzles you will not see in the film. But once they were there.

The fourth film significantly disappointed everyone who is possible. Even the most devoted fans of the franchise were somewhat taken aback, because it still looked with interest, but the smell of a rotting franchise began to be more clearly felt, because the next sequel riveted more thoughtfully. Let him go out immediately on the video, and small money was allocated, he stood at the steering wheel Who would you think Scott Derrickson (this is the one who stuck the Marvel Strende and Six Demons Emily Rose), at that time known as the screenwriter, and the fifth of the “rebel” became his debut in a big movie. And, Oh my god, what a chic film he shot.

Don’t even ask
May fans will forgive me, but I put me “rebel from hell 5: underworld” in one row with the first part, and indeed, “underworld” became my most beloved part. Derrickson, instead of the usual parade of meat and tin, removed the real nuar action -packed detective, in which the emphasis was not made on the dismemberment and demons (although there are interesting weatherboards here), but on the plot component. Goodbye action, hello attempts to analyze human souls, as in the good old. «Dirty» policeman Joseph, sometimes suspiciously similar to the dark version of a certain Max P., steals from the scene of the crime that very casket of Lemarshan and opens it. Exactly from that moment, his life turns into a real hell. And I won’t say anything else, for I’m afraid to display everything. I will simply say that such a ball of intrigues, riddles and plot ups and downs begins to twist further, that many films can be envied, which get to wide rental. And all this happens in the literally tangible atmosphere of a nightmare, twisting into an increasingly tight spiral, which is the farther – the worse. For meager grandmas, two million dollars, Scott Derrickson made a wonderful film that could compete with the best representatives of the genre. And as a cherry on the cake – the ending, which very elegantly connects everything that happens in one to the best logical whole.

About the actors – the main character is chic, Pinhad changed the role, but still burns with napalm

Surprisingly, by the fifth part of the franchise, she gained fresh breath, Scott Derrickson well shoveled the concept and was able to pleasantly surprise both critics and fans. Yes, who knew that this is the latest breathing became dying.

Since all subsequent parts were days, we won’t have to scatter about them, you should not watch them in any case, here is a brief opinion to you.
The rebel from Hell 6: the search for hell is a re -leaf of the plot from the fifth part, but boring and at times to idiocy illogical.
The rebel from hell 7: the army of the dead is a muddy trip about the Juranist’s trip to Bucharest with all the ensuing consequences. The plot was never fully understood, although I reviewed it twice.
The rebel from hell 8: the hellish world – Pinhad moved to the Internet. Either thriller, or propaganda of alcohol, or it is not clear what, with an idiotic unexpected turn at the end. Lance Henriksen is attached.
Risen from hell: Revelation – made on the knee of the ode of mediocrity, removed in two sandwiches with a rotten sausage, even Dag Bradley disobeyed here to climb.

Fuh, so we seem to have mastered the franchise «rebels from hell». Many people think that this was the most significant contribution of Clive Barker to Kinematographer as a director. I am categorically against these fabrications. Let us return to the past, namely in 1990 (lose the topic from “Back to the Future” in your head), when the next one after the first part of the “rebel” film on the work of Clive Barker “Night People” was released. At the helm – Barker again. At the heart – the story «Basis». What happened? Let’s find out!

Night people (Nightbreed – 1990)

Plot ups and downs:A young man named Boon considers himself guilty in a series of brutal murders. He was convinced of this by a psychiatrist deer. Bun is looking for salvation in the legendary Midian, an underground city of fugitives, where all sins are forgiven. This city is the refuge of the “night people” of the ancient race of monstrous monsters – mutants, living dead, changing their appearance and hiding from daylight and human eyes. The warmth of the «night people» Bun now should put the safety of Midian. And forever forget Lori, who loves him and is trying to find him. And in her footsteps are the police and deer who dreams of destroying the “night people” ..

Barker is true to himself – the makeup is still fantastic

Why I love: There are underestimated films, there are rehearsed films, but there are “Night People” – the film is so underestimated at one time that from the realization of all its underestimation I want to sit down and quietly, very in peasant, to launch a tear. Do not look at cool monsters, the film is not about that. That is, not quite about it. Once again, Barker laid a much deeper ideas in the film than it seems at first glance. At first glance, we have a very, very high-quality fantasy action film, a real adventure that quickly flies before his eyes and leaves behind a warm feeling of perfectly leisure. With a deeper consideration, we have a drama. Yes, yes, do not be surprised, the real drama is. The unconditional tragedy of this very “night people”, all the horror that they experienced when people learned about their existence, all this pushes for food for thought after watching, because people destroyed not just some kinds of weapons, they destroyed the people, with their culture and customs, only because they were others that subtly hints at some historical events. And this makes it soak thoroughly so. But let’s not about the sad, we will be about how it is filmed. Simently. First of all, I want to applaud the make -up artists, for local obscurantists – just a miracle. Everyone looks unusual, everyone manages to stand out against the background of the rest, at the sight of the work done, the real delight is overwhelmed, along with the standard “they knew how, scum, do cool”. The rest looks just very, very good – the operator does not jam, the director holds the dynamics perfectly and breaks the viewer on the desired emotions. Actors are more beautiful, everyone oozes with charisma and give out an excellent game. And there is David Kronenberg, annealing at the level of Daga Bradley. (Do not know who David Kronenberg is? It should be ashamed, young man.) Wonderful movie. Here, damn it, it’s not a shame to say, the “night people” is one of my favorite paintings, which I have been trying to force everyone and everyone for a year now. Klave Barker introduced a very mature job to the audience, which works perfectly both entertaining and dramatic spectacle.

I praise the film here, but at one time they accepted it not only. Critics shut up restrainedly, while the audience stupidly ignored, from which a tangible failure in the box office came out. But time reasoned everyone, now the “night people” often can be found in various tops of “the most underestimated films of all time”, and the viewer tried it over time, so we have another cult work from Clive Barker.

Exactly two years later, the name of the famous writer again thundered in the cinemas. Bernard Rose, known mainly as a dramatic film director, shot not the most typical movie for himself – the film adaptation of the story “Candimen”, based on city legends about a huge vile man who appears after you pronounce his name in front of the mirror and does something not very good with you. Amazing, but it turned out something very, very curious.

Candiman (Candyman – 1992)

What how much or plot plots:The inhabitants of the remote quarters of Chicago have a legend about the mysterious maniac, nicknamed Kandimen, inhabitant of the parallel world. He does not need a knife to apply wounds: a prosthesis of his hand in the form of a hook – an ideal weapon of a crime.While Candimen is beyond reality. But if you stand in front of the mirror and pronounce his name five times in a row, he will cross this unsteady line. And then no one will be able to escape.A group of young scientists who do not believe in the mysterious Candimen is taken for the study of this legend. But at any moment, instead of their reflection in the mirror, they can see the killer ..

Tony Todd – the main decoration of the film, the man was able to create a memorable and terrible image of inevitable evil

Well:: In general, Barker is lucky with the transfer of the villains of his works to a large screen. Bernard Rose, for nothing that the playwright, managed to remove the beautiful detective horror, giving us another cult villain, let it not be as well -known as Pinhad and the brethren. Candimen scares, Candimen makes the viewer be nervous and generally not to feel very comfortable, not least thanks to Tony Todd’s stunning game, a very, very underestimated actor, usually living in the second roles. Having thrown off the shackles of the second -altitude, Todd creates a memorable and terrible image of inevitable evil, which will overtake you anywhere. The film itself is a completely competent sample of the horror of that time, pressing more on the atmosphere and tension injection, and not on screamers and cheap scarecases.

Kandimen did not repeat the fate of the synobits – both sequels, who came out in the wake of popularity, turned out to be the bottom.
Candimen 2: Farewell to the flesh – from the detective thriller everything turned into a crooked slasher, completely misunderstood what made the original so good. But Todd is still cool, on which the sequel and leaves, so you can look once.
Candimen 3: Day of the dead – the bottom without any discounts, forget like a terrible dream.

«Candimen» perfectly showed himself at the box office, critics were written in boiling water, the audience was written with boiling water, everyone was written with boiling water. Apparently, therefore, Barker was entrusted to the third (and last) time to sit in the director’s chair in order to show everyone where the crayfish winter. He was going to shoot not anyhow, but a detective thriller about magic and fatal beauties. It turned out … ambiguously.

Lord of Illusions – 1995)

Briefly about the plot:
The ordinary business, which is investigated by the private detective Harry, acquires a frightening turnover when he encounters a secret surrounding the world famous magician Philip Svan and his beauty wife Dorotheu. Harry is drawn into a monstrous whirlpool of secrets, deception and unimaginable horrors. The illusion is a trick, but the magic is real ..

The chic art

Why suddenly ambiguously: And so here. You did not think that I would only praise Barker here and spread in Fan saliva, praising his directorial talent. No, the «lord of illusions» – the movie is pretty good, even good, but completely optional. The «lord» suffers primarily from his own timing. I’m not so missing while watching, but the film has a stupid habit of pulling and pulling the scenes, it seems that the scene has completed its task, but it stretches and stretches, from which there is a feeling of protracted. In the end, Barker completely swings at blockbuster heights, but with a budget of twelve million it looks very so -so, even a makeup this time is completely unimaginating the imagination. Frankly, the “lord of illusions” is the weakest work of Barker, not the skillful realization of the most beautiful idea. Does this make this movie bad? Of course not! Despite the rather offensive flaws, the picture all the same looks with moderate interest, and if you miss detective thrillers with a fair amount of mysticism, then it even risks giving you a well -spent time. But I repeat, of all the directorial works, this is the most weak in my humble opinion.

And again we turn on the time machine, being transferred in 2005. Showtime Channel launches a very promising project “Master of Horror”-a series-almanac, consisting of the works of outstanding directors and scriptwriters of the horror. Not the latest people in the industry visited this business – Stuart Gordon, Dario Argento, John Carpenter, Joe Dante and a lot of people who have formed the genre for decades. Klave Barker was also clogged into a “powerful heap” as a screenwriter, giving us a novel “History of Hecel”.

This is obscurantism, shot for television, it is not worthy of mentioning. Let’s imagine that no one has ever shot it.

Masters of Horror (Masters of Horror – 2005 – 2007)

History History

Plot:The lost Ernest Hakkel finds the long-awaited human dwelling somewhere in the rural expanses of New England. He is given a room not to go outside, no matter how he hears. Since the cries of an invisible child are gradually drowned out by guttural moans, he disobesience to the owner and hurries to the rescue, finding himself in the unseen orgies of the unlawful.

The novel is mostly spoken, so do not wait for the special intensity of tin, although it is present

Well, how: In general, it will not be superfluous to say that it is worth not only this short story, but the whole series, because there is something to look there at. A lot of old people from the genre are epic shaking the old people, giving out very non -terrible things. It was this short story that came out one of the best in the cycle. Thanks for this it is worth saying to Barker, because, despite the dialogue orientation of the short story, it is huddled regularly, and the plot itself turned out to be interesting exactly so that I did not want to differ from the screen at all. You can consider the History of Hecel a certain check, because if you liked it – look, you don’t like it – better and do not take it to continue.

2008-2009 began to see the breakthrough for Barker fans, because during this period not one, not two, but three films based on the works of the writer were released. And the most unusual (and the best) turned out to be the first – the film adaptation of the Hardcore story “Midnight train with meat” from the crazy Asian Ryuhai Kitamura, a famous supplier of vigorous slasher and typically Asian fighters. The film turned out to be the director.

Midnight Express (The Midnight Meat Train – 2008)

I have brought a Russian poster to you here, for a century

About the plot:The young photographer of the criminal chronicle Leon Kaufman receives a profitable offer from one New York Gallery-to show the public his works. In his photographs, he should reflect “all extreme and dark” that is in the city ..

Whoever said, and Winnie Jones’s face is good

About the film: Let’s immediately agree – you do not need to look for hidden meanings, plot surprises in the «midnight express», because this was not brought. But they brought such a chic graphone mochilovo that all the lover of the slasher faints from the abundance of unmotivated violence. Ryuhai Kitamura took off a stupid and straight way like a stick of slasher, which seems to be not very good. But. BUT. But. The main thing here is not “what”, but “how”. Winnie Jones smaster the skull with a hammer, giving out 21+ with all the ensuing consequences, the operator is 21+ at all possible angles, bringing lovers of a beautiful picture to fainting, Ryuhai Kitamura competently gives and dilutes the talismans, so that the viewer does not bother. My perception of this picture is close to my perception of “pirania 3d” – cheerful urchilovo without brains, this shameful pleasure. Yes stupidly, yes plot holes the size of lunar craters, and Bradley Cooper is absolutely gray. But as soon as Winnie Jones frowns and goes into the wagon to create a bobbro and prosperity with a hammer under the epic spans with a camera – the whole world freezes, and I go on a breathtaking one and a half hour trip, shying with delight when the next batch of eyes, brains and other things flies into the screen. If you love dumb slasers with delicate love, you came to the address. If you want a little barker, you can be disappointed.

Again, from the area of ​​amazing – critics were praised, but the audience did not very appreciate the picture, because it failed very crack. But do not be sad, my young lover of Clive Barker. After all, what the writer’s fans have been waiting for for many years – a film adaptation of the Book Book of Blood.

Book of Blood – 2008)

Briefly about the plot:The plot is twisted around a specialist in paranormal phenomena, who, in the course of investigating a terrible murder, discovers a mystical house, from which the souls go straight to the afterlife kingdom.

Pleasant appetite, by the way

Well, how is it, epic? In order not to upset you, dear reader, I’ll start with the good – the events from the original are transferred in the film adaptation quite accurately. Finished about the good, started about the bad. Film bottom. This is not a bottom as a “holy sinner”, because there is a certain work on the material, but still the bottom. Why? Because stretching a small story for a hundred minutes is a doubt idea. Because the creators decided, it is not clear why, to steal psychologism and other things, invented children’s injuries in order to make them more voluminous and more interesting. They cut psychologism – and threw it in half the case, the characters remained flat mannequins. And this is how a tiny story turned into a sterile British horror about a ghost house, it is completely incomprehensible why and for whom the shot. All a hundred minutes of timing, the heroes go, strive to undress, look languidly at each other, talk sincere conversations (revealing the characters), sleep with each other, they find out something there, they will show ghosts a couple of times, they will let the end a couple of times – the end. Thank you, director, I fell asleep twice while watching, my girlfriend fell asleep in the first twenty minutes and did not wake up until the victorious end, we didn’t need this anymore.

«Book of Blood» somehow completely imperceptibly passed by a potential viewer, falling into the box office and forgetting immediately after the exit. In 2009, the penultimate film was released on the work of Clive Barker (the last one was “rebel from Hell: Revelation”, but this is right Bue) – a thriller in one time very impressed by me “Fear”.

Fear (Dread – 2009)

The suitable plot: In a student dormitory, Stephen Grace meets a young man named Kueid. Cueid’s philosophy is this: fear is the only meaningful reality. All people, according to his theory, are afraid of something.

The atmosphere of claustrophobia is transmitted to a dozen

And how: A very nice thriller, modest, but proud and okay tailored, but if the guys have a more impartial budget, you look at a great movie. “Fear” suffers due to rigid subsidence in dynamics closer to the middle, and not everyone will like a rather melancholy beginning. But when he gets out, you will no longer tear you up to the very end. The director is perfectly delved into the essence of the story that he shot the film, so he caught up with the atmosphere of the atmosphere of the entrusted horror from the awareness of the situation in which the heroine got into and rather competently inserted here and there, allowing the viewer to know the main characters and imbued with emotions. Actors here are generally well done – for Stephen and Cheryl, you are worried about all the fibers of the soul, and Kueid turned out to be a reference vile villain, with understandable motives and aspirations. The film will not open new horizons to you, but a pleasant evening in its company will definitely give you, because it is quite competent, albeit not an outstanding film adaptation. And to lovers of “claustrophobic” thrillers, such as “buried alive”, and indeed the topics of locking people in a closed space and further mocking over them, I recommend that you recommend.

What is there in the future: In the future we have a remake of the “rebel”, at the moment he is at the stage of conservation, but the guys promise that when it will be, it will be epic. Clive Barker will sit down again into the directorial chair in order to remove the “tormented souls”, but what is it when and how – also completely incomprehensible.

Total: Clive Barker is the rare example of a person who is talented in everything, for whatever he would take up. He gave us two most beautiful films (and the third good) that he had stripped by him and the whole breakthrough of good (and not so) paintings, to which he attached his hands as a screenwriter. All his works are distinguished by his identity and their own vision, Klive never hesed out of the cinema and trends in the cinema, betraying and deprived of financially, but recognized and warmly beloved by the audience, which still look great. Probably the magic of Klava Barker – even many years later, his paintings do not become obsolete for a second.

Iiiiii here is all! It was difficult, it was long, but it was done. I hope you like it. Imelman was with you, until very ambulance.