| Horror had run its course in the 90s when Silence of the Lawbs won an Oscar. Or did it? Clive Barker became the future of horror, these cheap paperback novels where you could see the pulp it was printed on. This contains the basis for the film Nightbreed; it was an international flop! Still had enough of a following to be known amongst movie and dark culture afficienados. However, while he may have been the latest in a long line of kings of horror in his late 1980s through the late 90s in his prime, with Clive Barker still around it seems society hasn't changed and some of us such as myself are even going backwards possibly, stuck in the late 80s- early 90s with our comic book menace, Vampirethe Masquerade role playing game, GURPS, LARP, etc. But it is still good to see someone so innovative for his time as to think of entirely original ideas like the Hellraiser franchise. Clive Barker has some originality- most cheerleaders need to get some fresh concepts, still stuck in the boring high school society that we got into this dark fantasy culture in the first place- out of rebellion. |
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